scholarly journals Putting the “Love of Humanity” Back in Corporate Philanthropy: The Case of Health Grants by Corporate Foundations

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Umar Boodoo ◽  
Irene Henriques ◽  
Bryan W. Husted
Keyword(s):  
Medical Service ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Corporate Philanthropy ◽  
Health Data ◽  
County Level ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Corporate Foundations ◽  
Using Data

AbstractWith the growing call for private sector actors to address global challenges, it is necessary to first assess whether regions with the greatest needs are accessing corporate philanthropy. In this paper, we ask whether corporate philanthropy is reaching those with the greatest health-care needs. Drawing on economic geography and corporate homophily, we argue that corporate philanthropy tends to exacerbate health inequality as grants are destined for counties with fewer health problems. We test and find support for this hypothesis using data on health grants made by US corporate foundations and county-level health data. Our results that corporate health grants are less likely to go to counties which have a lower proportion of medical service providers and insured citizens suggest that corporate foundations are unwittingly complicit in worsening the resource gap between small, poor, rural counties and large, wealthy, urban counties. From an ethical perspective, we provide some guidance as to how this may be corrected.

Service Barriers for Gender Nonbinary Young Adults: Using Photovoice to Understand Support and Stigma

Affilia ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 088610992094453 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darren Cosgrove ◽  
Christine Bozlak ◽  
Parker Reid
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Unmet Need ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Transgender People ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Service Barriers

The social and health care needs of transgender people is a growing focus within social work literature. Attention to social and physical health disparities suggests that transgender-affirming services are an often unmet need. As ways to improve services are explored, attention must be paid to the diverse identities of transgender people. Although a large number of transgender people identify as nonbinary, the majority of research has examined the experiences of transgender men and women, thus often overlooking the unique experiences of those whose gender is outside of a dichotomous binary. A stronger understanding of the experiences of people who identify as nonbinary is essential for advancing affirming social work policies and practices. This photovoice study examined identity support and stigma faced by nonbinary young adults. Participants identified several themes related to seeking care from service providers and described the presence of assumptions contributing to their identities being pathologized. Findings show that nonbinary young people, like their binary transgender peers, experience discrimination in their interactions with providers and society more generally. However, the binaristic assumptions that are described add an important dimension to existing literature. Overall, the findings call for an increasingly queer understanding of gender among social work scholarship and practice.

Ethnic Composition of Couples and Mutual Health Benefit Receipt: Register-based Evidence from Finland

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Saarela ◽  
Maria Stanfors ◽  
Mikael Rostila
Keyword(s):  
Disability Pension ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Health Benefit ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Income Loss ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Using Data ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background: The literature on health dependencies among partners typically ignores diversity when it comes to partnership characteristics, which have consequences on many facets of life and may be important for the health of both parties. One salient example is the ethnic or racial composition of the couple. We extend prior work on partnerships and health by investigating how married and cohabiting partners mutually influence each other’s receipt of health-related benefits, and focus on how any such correlations vary by the couple’s ethnic composition.Methods: We study partners’ mutual receipt of sickness allowance and disability pension in ethnically endogamous and exogamous couples in Finland. The population consists of native individuals in similar socioeconomic positions but belonging to two different ethnic groups, Finnish and Swedish speakers, which differ regarding health and cultural practices related to family life. Using data from population registers (36,034 couples in 1987-2011), we estimate discrete-time hazard models for first-time benefit receipt related to partner’s benefit receipt among midlife couples.Results: We find evidence of mutual receipt of health benefits in both endogamous and exogamous couples, the correlation being strongest for disability pension. Partner correlation in disability pension receipt is slightly stronger in endogamous Swedish than in endogamous Finnish couples, while women in exogamous couples are slightly less sensitive to men’s receipt than vice versa. These findings show that the ethnic composition of couples is important for mutual health benefit receipt.Conclusions: Our findings could be explained both by collateral health effects and by rational decisions concerning mutual leisure time, income loss, and informal health care needs. The results clearly cast light on the important issue of mutual health in couples, and that associations of this kind may be heterogeneous across couples that differ in ethnic composition.

A Qualitative Approach to the Mental Health Care Needs of People Living with HIV/AIDS in Victoria

2002 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 30
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Dawson ◽  
Paul Grech ◽  
Brendan Hyland ◽  
Fiona Judd ◽  
John Lloyd ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Services ◽  
Health Services ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
People Living With Hiv ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Living With Hiv ◽  
Hiv Aids

This article reports on the findings of the qualitative stage of a larger project on the mental care needs of people with HIV/AIDS and mental illness (Tender T1176 Department of Human Services, Mental Health Branch, Victoria - Research on the Mental Health Care Needs of People with HIV/AIDS and Mental Illness). The purpose of the larger research was to evaluate the needs and treatment requirements of persons with HIV/AIDS, who also suffer from mental health problems, with a view to developing proposals for improving existing service delivery in Victoria, Australia. The qualitative stage was designed to complement and elucidate data obtained through the quantitative stages of the project. Thirty in-depth open-ended interviews were carried out with service providers including HIV physicians, general practitioners, psychiatrists, clinical and managerial staff of Area Mental Health Services, Contact Tracers and forensic mental health services staff, as well as representatives of community groups such as People Living with HIV/AIDS and Positive Women and carers. The interviews explored the perspective of both service providers and users of such services with respect to needs for psychiatric care and service delivery, ease of access or barriers to mental health services, and the perceived strengths and weaknesses in current service provision. This paper presents the main findings and recommendations submitted to the funding body.

Development and Evaluation of a Satisfaction Scale for Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 104 (Supplement_6) ◽  
pp. 1182-1191 ◽  
Author(s):  
Henry T. Ireys ◽  
Jamie J. Perry
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Chronic Conditions ◽  
Reliability And Validity ◽  
Special Health Care Needs ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Satisfaction Scale ◽  
Special Health Care ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Special Health

Objective. This article describes the development and evaluation of the Multidimensional Assessment of Parental Satisfaction (MAPS) for Children With Special Needs, a tool for measuring satisfaction with providers at the individual level of care. Methods. Two studies were conducted. The first study created and pilot-tested the scale, using data from 158 parents of children with 4 selected chronic conditions to calculate estimates of reliability and validity. Initial psychometric characteristics were sufficiently strong to warrant further testing. The second study was a field trial of the 12-item MAPS, using data from 302 parents of children with diverse chronic conditions. Results. Reliability estimates were >.85. The scale's discriminative validity was supported by sharp distinctions between satisfaction ratings for different types of providers. Correlations in the .80s with general satisfaction items indicated strong concurrent validity. Factor analysis revealed a single factor. Conclusions. The MAPS has psychometric integrity. Assessing satisfaction for children with special health care needs is a complex, necessary part of a comprehensive assessment of quality of care.

Relationship between Subjective Quality of Medical Service and Unmet Health Care Needs

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Hee-Won Yang ◽  
So-Jeong Hwang ◽  
Bomgyeol Kim ◽  
Ohwi Kwon ◽  
Jin-Won Noh
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Service ◽  
Subjective Quality ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Unmet Health Care Needs

Visioning for the Future: What Can Educational Leaders Do to Build a Shared Commitment to Interagency Collaboration?

1995 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bruce G. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Strategic Planning ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Educational Leaders ◽  
Interagency Collaboration ◽  
Health Care Needs ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Care Needs ◽  
Collaborative Visioning ◽  
Shared Commitment

Interagency collaboration is being touted as a means for schools to address the increasing social, emotional and health care needs of students. In this article, we contend that if interagency collaboration is to become more than a buzzword, then school leaders must work diligently to build a shared commitment to the school's vision by engaging service providers in sustained and collective discussions and decisions about the school's direction. Two promising approaches for building this shared commitment—strategic planning and collaborative visioning—are highlighted, including a discussion of how several newly-formed collaboratives are confronting the cultural, procedural/regulatory, and personal barriers that prohibit meaningful interagency collaboration.

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