All Health Politics Is Local : Community Battles for Medical Care and Environmental Health /

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"Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In 'All Health Politics Is Local',...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chowkwanyun, Merlin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Medical care > Political aspects.
Environmental health > Political aspects.
Community health services.
Community health services > United States.
Environmental health > Political aspects > United States.
Medical care > Political aspects > United States.
United States.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"Health care is political. It entails fierce battles over the allocation of resources, arguments over the imposition of regulations, and the mediation of dueling public sentiments-all conflicts that are often narrated from a national, top-down view. In 'All Health Politics Is Local', Merlin Chowkwanyun shifts our focus, taking us to four very different places-New York City, Los Angeles, Cleveland, and central Appalachia-to experience a national story through a regional lens"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781469667690

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