Ronald J. Angel, Laura Lein, Jane M. Henrici

Poor Families in America's Health Care Crisis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This documents the holes in the health care safety net for poor and minority Americans.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780521837743
• ISBN-10: 052183774X
• Artikelnr.: 21590644

Autorenporträt

Ronald J. Angel, Ph.D. is Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas, Austin. With his wife, Jacqueline Angel, he is author of Painful Inheritance: Health and the New Generation of Fatherless Families and Who Will Care for Us? Aging and Long-term Care in Multicultural America. Professor Angel served as Editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior from 1994 to 1997, and he has served on the editorial boards of numerous other journals. He has administered several large grants from NIA, NIMH, NICHD, and several private foundations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The unrealized hope of welfare reform: implications for health care
2. The health care welfare state in America
3. The tattered health care safety net for poor Americans
4. State differences in health care policies and coverage
5. Work and health insurance: a tenuous tie for the working poor
6. Confronting the system: minority group identity and powerlessness
7. The nonexistent safety net for parents
8. Health care for all Americans.