Preventive Medicine, Community Health and Social Services. J. B. Meredith Davies. Second Edition. London: Balliere Tindall, 1971. 331 pp. Paperbound. Published in the United States by the Williams and Wilkins Company, Baltimore. $7.75 Hardcover

1973 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-86
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Watkins
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Preventive Medicine ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Wilkins Company ◽  
Medicine Community

Foundations in Canada: A Comparative Perspective

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (13) ◽  
pp. 1777-1802 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter R. Elson ◽  
Jean-Marc Fontan ◽  
Sylvain Lefèvre ◽  
James Stauch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Services ◽  
The United States ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Partnership Model ◽  
Complementary Role ◽  
Canadian Perspective ◽  
History Of ◽  
Similar Range

From a Canadian perspective, this article provides a comparative historical and contemporary overview of foundations in Canada, in relation to the United States and Germany. For the purposes of this analysis, the study was limited to public or private foundations in Canada, as defined by the Income Tax Act. As the Canadian foundation milieu straddles the welfare partnership model that characterizes German civil society and the Anglo-Saxon model of the United States, Canadian foundations as a whole have much in common with the foundation sector in both countries. Similarities include the number of foundations per capita, a similar range in size and influence, a comparable diversity of foundation types, and an explosion in the number of foundations in recent decades (although the United States has a much longer history of large foundations making high-impact interventions). This analysis also highlights some key differences among larger foundations in the three jurisdictions: German foundations are generally more apt to have a change-orientation and are more vigorous in their disbursement of income and assets. U.S. foundations are more likely to play a welfare-replacement role in lieu of inaction by the state. Canadian foundations play a complementary role, particularly in the areas of education and research, health, and social services. At the same time, there is a segment of Canadian foundations that are fostering innovation, social and policy change, and are embarking on meaningful partnerships and acts of reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples in Canada.

Integration: the firm and the health care sector

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam J. Laugesen ◽  
George France
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Transaction Costs ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Theories ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Care Integration ◽  
Integrated Health Care System

AbstractIntegration in health care is a key goal of health reform in United States and England. Yet past efforts in the 1990s to better integrate the delivery system were of limited success. Building on work by Bevan and Janus on delivery integration, this article explores integration through the lens of economic theories of integration. Firms generally integrate to increase efficiency through economies of scale, to improve their market power, and resolve the transaction costs involved with multiple external suppliers. Using the United States and England as laboratories, we apply concepts of economic integration to understand why integration does or does not occur in health care, and whether expectations of integrating different kinds of providers (hospital, primary care) and health and social services are realistic. Current enthusiasm for a more integrated health care system expands the scope of integration to include social services in England, but retains the focus on health care in the United States. We find mixed applicability of economic theories of integration. Economies of scale have not played a significant role in stimulating integration in both countries. Managerial incentives for monopoly or oligopoly may be more compelling in the United States, since hospitals seek higher prices and more leverage over payers. In both countries the concept of transaction costs could explain the success of new payment and budgeting methods, since health care integration ultimately requires resolving transaction costs across different delivery organizations.

Gender, Public Policy and the Oldest Old

1987 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jane Sprague Zones ◽  
Carroll L. Estes ◽  
Elizabeth A. Binney*
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Small Proportion ◽  
Oldest Old ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Ratio ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Public Resources

ABSTRACTThose 85 years of age and older are the fastest growing subpopulation in the United States. Because they represent a very small proportion of the population (just 1% in 1980), the oldest old have not been studied until recently. Much of the interest in this group is related to their growth (over 50% per decade in the past 50 years) coupled with their disproportionate use of public resources, particularly health and social services. Women are strikingly overrepresented among the oldest old, with a gender ratio of approximately 44 males for every 100 females age 85 and older.

scholarly journals Access and Barriers to Use of Long Term Services: Contextual Issues

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 428-428
Author(s):  
Allen Glicksman ◽  
Lauren Ring ◽  
Norah Keating
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Older Persons ◽  
National Policy ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Foreign Born ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Barriers To Use ◽  
Definition Of

Abstract The challenges that some older adults face in accessing both health and social services is a topic of continuing concern. This panel will focus on contextual issues that often shape specific challenges. These contextual issues usually emerge either from issues of diversity among the older persons themselves (for example, minority status or foreign born) and diversity between the ways in which services are offered (usually established at the national or in the case of the United States, at the state level). The intersection of these two forms of diversity often define the specific challenges faced by older persons in accessing health and social services. Further, unexpected events, such as the COVID pandemic, can affect both types of diversity (greater challenges for persons who do not speak the dominant language; inability of services to quickly adapt to radically changed environment). Our panel will address these issues through four presentations, each taking a different look at the ways in which diversity affects access. Our first paper, by Torres, will place this discussion in wider context by presenting results from a scoping review. Our second paper, by Diederich looks at access to services by immigrant generation (that being another source of diversity) in Germany. The third paper, by Thiamwong looks at how the COVID crisis affected older Hispanic women. Finally, Ring will examine how a national policy, here the definition of poverty, affects outcome and access for older person in the United States.

scholarly journals Addressing Health Disparities in the Rural United States: Advocacy as Caregiving among Community Health Workers and Promotores de Salud

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (24) ◽  
pp. 9223
Author(s):  
Ryan I. Logan ◽  
Heide Castañeda
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Community Health Workers ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Health Workers ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rural Populations

Rural populations in the United States are faced with a variety of health disparities that complicate access to care. Community health workers (CHWs) and their Spanish-speaking counterparts, promotores de salud, are well-equipped to address rural health access issues, provide education, and ultimately assuage these disparities. In this article, we compare community health workers in the states of Indiana and Texas, based on the results of two separate research studies, in order to (1) investigate the unique role of CHWs in rural communities and (2) understand how their advocacy efforts represent a central form of caregiving. Drawing on ethnographic, qualitative data—including interviews, photovoice, and participant observation—we analyze how CHWs connect structurally vulnerable clients in rural areas to resources, health education, and health and social services. Our primary contribution to existing scholarship on CHWs is the elaboration of advocacy as a form of caregiving to improve individual health outcomes as well as provoke structural change in the form of policy development. Finally, we describe how CHWs became especially critical in addressing disparities among rural populations in the wake of COVID-19, using their advocacy-as-caregiving role that was developed and well-established before the pandemic. These frontline workers are more vital than ever to address disparities and are a critical force in overcoming structural vulnerability and inequities in health in the United States.

Faith-based Health and Social Services for People Experiencing Homelessness in the United States: A Scoping Review of the Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 1698-1719
Author(s):  
Whitney Thurman ◽  
Leticia R. Moczygemba ◽  
Lauren Welton-Arndt ◽  
Elizabeth Kim ◽  
Anthony Hudzik ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
The United States ◽  
Review Of The Literature ◽  
Health And Social Services ◽  
Faith Based

Preaching with Their Lives

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Justice ◽  
Epidemic Disease ◽  
Music Drama ◽  
The Arts

This volume tells the little-known story of the Dominican Family—priests, sisters, brothers, contemplative nuns, and lay people—and integrates it into the history of the United States. Starting after the Civil War, the book takes a thematic approach through twelve essays examining Dominican contributions to the making of the modern United States by exploring parish ministry, preaching, health care, education, social and economic justice, liturgical renewal and the arts, missionary outreach and contemplative prayer, ongoing internal formation and renewal, and models of sanctity. It charts the effects of the United States on Dominican life as well as the Dominican contribution to the larger U.S. history. When the country was engulfed by wave after wave of immigrants and cities experienced unchecked growth, Dominicans provided educational institutions; community, social, and religious centers; and health care and social services. When epidemic disease hit various locales, Dominicans responded with nursing care and spiritual sustenance. As the United States became more complex and social inequities appeared, Dominicans cried out for social and economic justice. Amidst the ugliness and social dislocation of modern society, Dominicans offered beauty through the liturgical arts, the fine arts, music, drama, and film, all designed to enrich the culture. Through it all, the Dominicans cultivated their own identity as well, undergoing regular self-examination and renewal.

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