Including up-to-date details about Medicare in light of the 2010 Health Care Reform bill, this book will help readers understand past concerns about the program, as well as current issues and ways to
Focuses on differences in health and health care as linked to important social factors. This title includes six articles looking at racial disparities on a variety of topics such as: knowledge of hepa
This volume features papers on the theme of issues in health and health care for special groups, social factors and disparities.This includes papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-le
Sociologists and other social scientists, and medical and other health-care researchers explore sociological dimensions of relations between health care and people. The overall themes are providers of
This volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses micro-level gender issues and other social factors impacting macro-level health care systems. Examining the health and health care issu
This volume covers macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving health and health care concerns for women, and racial and ethnic minorities. Topics covered include examination of health
Editor Kronenfeld (sociology, Arizona State University) gathers contributors in sociology, education, emergency medicine, gender studies, political science, and urban studies in this work for students
This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date.Beliefs and health beliefs are
Are the poor always sick or are the sick always poor? These dozen or so contributors of essays seek to examine the linkages between poverty and illness and the reasons for them. They examine macro-lev
Contributors from America and international contributors from Norway, Taiwan, and Malaysia highlight current work in the field of technology in healthcare and healthcare services. Part one provides a
This issues-based reference work (available in both print and electronic formats) shines a spotlight on health care policy and practice in the United States. Impassioned debates about the best solutio
