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Just don't get sick : access to health care in the aftermath of welfare reform /
Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave welfare for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
©2007.
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| Series: | Critical issues in health and medicine.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Drawing upon statistical data and in-depth interviews with over five hundred families in Oregon, Karen Seccombe and Kim Hoffman assess the ways in which welfare reform affects the well-being of adults and children who leave welfare for work. We hear of asthmatic children whose uninsured but working mothers cannot obtain the preventive medicines to keep them well, and stories of pregnant women receiving little or no prenatal care who end up in emergency rooms with life-threatening conditions. Representative of poor communities nationwide, the vivid stories recounted here illuminate the critical. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 211 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-203) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813541457 081354145X 0813540909 9780813540900 9786611151362 6611151362 |