The safety-net health care system health care at the margins /
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| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Springer Pub.,
c2012.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10521462 |
Table of Contents:
- Origins and definitions of the safety net health care system
- Poverty and being poor
- Stratification and stigma
- Differences, power, privilege, and disparities in care
- Homelessness as a social phenomenon and being homeless
- Substance abuse and addiction
- Violence, victimization, and trauma
- "Difficult patients", difficult health conditions
- Adherence to care
- Thriving in stressful environments.