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Health, illness, and use of care : the impact of social factors /
This text explores the impact of social factors on health, illness and the use of care. Contributors examine a number of social factors including sex, gender and socio-economic status on the healthcare experience and focus on both patients within the care process and the providers of care. It also p...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
JAI,
2000.
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| Colección: | Research in the sociology of health care ;
v. 18. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
- Pt. I. Women's Health and Gender Issues in Health Care. Like I Just Got a Death Sentence: Conditions Affecting Women's Reactions to Being Told their HIV Antibody Test Results and the Impact on Access to Care / Donna B. Barnes, Audrey Alforque and Khalil Carter. Breast Cancer: An Examination of the Social Correlates Relationship to Diagnosis and Treatment / Carla D. Edwards, Amber McClave and Yvonne J. Combs. The Social Construction of Sex Categories as Problematic to Biomedical Research: Cancer as a Case in Point / Barbara Hanson. Women, Medicine, and Sociology: Thoughts on the Need for a Critical Feminist Perspective / Deborah Plechner
- Pt. II. Socioeconomic Status and Race in Health and Health Care. Care-Seeking Pattern and Outcome of Hospitalized Pneumonia Patients who are Socioeconomically Disadvantaged / Jay J. Shen, Jonathan B. Perlin and Yi-Hua Xu / [et al.]. Socioeconomic Status and Health Behaviors among Californians / Joseph G. Grzywacz. Race, Socioeconomic Status, and Risk of a Catastrophic Health Condition in Later Life / Nancy G. Kutner and Donna Brogan. HIV/AIDS Patients' Preferences Regarding Physician Gender, Sexual Orientation, and Race/Ethnicity / Kathleen Johnston Roberts
- Pt. III. Health Care System Issues: Health Policy, Health Lifestyles and the Construction of Patients, Illness and Death. Constructing the "Good Patient" in Conventional and Unconventional Medical Settings: Roles, Relationships, and Information Transfer / Marian Katz. Preventing Hospitalization: Home Hospice Nurses, Caregivers, and Shifting Notions of the Good Death / Jennifer Leich. Capital Formation and the United States Health Care System: The Relationship Between the Private and Public Sector / Beth Mintz and Michael Schwartz. The Influence of Mid-Life Adult Status and Functional Health Status on Health Lifestyles / Neale R. Chumbler, Ashley Foster and James W. Grimm / [et al.]. Uncertainty: A Key Characteristic of Chronic Illness and a Major Problem for Managed Care / Ariela Royer.