Self-help groups at the turning point: Emerging egalitarian alliances with the formal health care system?

1990 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 321-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomasina Borkman
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Formal Health Care ◽  
Care System

Women and Health Care: A Comparison of Theories

1975 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Fee
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Work Force ◽  
Alternative Structures ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Unpaid Labor ◽  
The Social ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Care System

There are three distinct approaches to the analysis of women's position in society, and thus of women's relation to the health care system. Liberal feminists seek equal opportunity “within the system,” demand equal opportunity and employment for women in health care, and are critical of the patronizing attitudes of physicians. Radical feminists reject “the system” as one based on the oppression of women and seek to build alternative structures to better fill their needs. They see the division between man and woman as the primary contradiction in society and patriarchy as its fundamental institution. They have initiated self-help groups and women's clinics to extend the base of health care controlled by women in their own interests. Marxist-feminists see the particular oppression of women as generated by contradictions within the development of capitalism. Women's unpaid labor at home and underpaid labor in the work force both serve the interests of the owners of capital. The health care system serves these same interests; it maintains and perpetuates the social class structure while becoming increasingly alienated from the health needs of the majority of the population.

Self-initiation and self-help: Promises and pitfalls

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
pp. 544-546
Author(s):  
BARBARA STARFIELD
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Elementary School ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
School Nurse ◽  
Demonstration Project ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Care System

Self-help is in vogue. Stimulated at least partly by the purported inadequacies of our health care system, it promises better results if only people would take responsibility for their own destinies. The Lewises and their colleagues (p. 499), in their customary fashion, have added an innovative twist to the idea. Why not start the process in childhood? In their article they describe a demonstration project in which children enrolled in an elementary school could initiate their own care from a school nurse. The nurse was trained to involve the children in the decisions required to cope with their problems. If

A marriage of opposites: Self-help and the health care system.

2001 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Riessman ◽  
Erik C. Banks
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Care System

Enhancing primary prevention: The marriage of self‐help groups and formal health care delivery systems

1979 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jared Hermalin ◽  
Linda Melendez ◽  
Thomas Kamarck ◽  
Fran Klevans ◽  
Edward Ballen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Prevention ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Delivery Systems ◽  
Self Help ◽  
Health Care Delivery Systems ◽  
Self Help Groups ◽  
Formal Health Care

Teletinnitus Program at the VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-29
Author(s):  
Constance Hilory Tomberlin
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Patient Care ◽  
Health Care System ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
Care System

There are a multitude of reasons that a teletinnitus program can be beneficial, not only to the patients, but also within the hospital and audiology department. The ability to use technology for the purpose of tinnitus management allows for improved appointment access for all patients, especially those who live at a distance, has been shown to be more cost effective when the patients travel is otherwise monetarily compensated, and allows for multiple patient's to be seen in the same time slots, allowing for greater access to the clinic for the patients wishing to be seen in-house. There is also the patient's excitement in being part of a new technology-based program. The Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System (GCVHCS) saw the potential benefits of incorporating a teletinnitus program and began implementation in 2013. There were a few hurdles to work through during the beginning organizational process and the initial execution of the program. Since the establishment of the Teletinnitus program, the GCVHCS has seen an enhancement in patient care, reduction in travel compensation, improvement in clinic utilization, clinic availability, the genuine excitement of the use of a new healthcare media amongst staff and patients, and overall patient satisfaction.

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