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The University of North Carolina Press
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English
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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', 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...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances that make it difficult for struggling men, women, and children to live healthier lives. In Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, Dr. Prabhjot Singh argues...
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CRS report volume R43911
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Congressional Research Service
Pub. Date
2018-
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English
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Lexington Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In Boundaries of Care, Ryan I. Logan introduces readers to the lived experience of community health workers and how, through outreach and advocacy, these workers intimately shape and improve the well-being of their communities. Boundaries of Care also highlights the nuances of their caregiving, challenges experienced, and ways to advance and support this workforce"--