Health care off the books poverty, illness, and strategies for survival in urban America

"Low-income African Americans in the United States face a fundamental tension when it comes to health care. Members of this group have higher rates of illness and disease compared to other groups and, at the same time, are more likely to face obstacles to accessing health care. Health Care Off...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Raudenbush, Danielle T., 1980- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California University of California Press [2020]
Temas:
African Americans > Medical care > United States > Case studies.
Urban poor > Medical care > United States > Case studies.
Health services accessibility.
African Americans.
Health Services Accessibility
African Americans
Urban Health Services
Noirs américains > Soins médicaux > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Pauvres en milieu urbain > Soins médicaux > États-Unis > Études de cas.
Services de santé > Accessibilité.
Noirs américains.
African American.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Disease & Health Issues.
African Americans > Medical care
Urban poor > Medical care
United States
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Health care access in America and the formal-informal hybrid health care system
  • 2. Access to care in Jackson Homes
  • 3. Sick, poor, and without care: individual responses to barriers and the emergence of a hybrid system
  • 4. "On the poor side of things": the role of the local community in the hybrid system
  • 5. The doctor is in: physicians in the hybrid system
  • 6. After the Affordable Care Act
  • 7. Conclusion
  • Methodological appendix
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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