Four Concepts that Distinguish Pediatric Oncology Care in Japan From that in the United States: Telling the Diagnosis, Length of Hospitalization, Home Care, and Support Systems

1996 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 226-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akiko Ishibashi
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Pediatric Oncology ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
The United States ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
Oncology Care ◽  
Length Of Hospitalization

Trial of Therapy and Prospective Study of Nephroblastoma

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1972 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 638-639
Author(s):  
P. A. Voûte ◽  
J. Lemerle
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Clinical Trial ◽  
Radiation Therapy ◽  
Prospective Study ◽  
International Society ◽  
Pediatric Oncology ◽  
The United States ◽  
Therapeutic Trial ◽  
A Prospective Study

The International Society of Pediatric Oncology (ISPO) is planning a clinical therapeutic trial on nephroblastoma in Europe. Large agreement exists on the treatment of these tumors; the principal modalities are surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. However, there are some unanswered questions as to the value of different forms of administration of radiation and chemotherapy, which we feel could best be elucidated by a prospective study in the form of a clinical trial. A trial has been going on in the United States for 2 years.

A Lack of Reciprocity

2019 ◽  
pp. 203-238
Author(s):  
Cati Coe
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Insurance ◽  
Home Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Domestic Service ◽  
National Belonging ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Service Agencies

This chapter examines how workplace conditions and benefits shape care workers’ national belonging. It discusses the home care field, including its historically unregulated character due to its categorization as domestic service. Agencies are currently responding to new regulations regarding overtime and health insurance, which have had contradictory effects on workers. It also discusses the amount of profit agencies are making from care workers. Care workers feel that they are denied reciprocities to which they are entitled through their labor. This is thus a complicated sense of belonging, in which they belong enough to feel entitled to reward, but not enough belonging to feel that they can work in unison against this system. Many, instead, decide that this state of affairs confirms that they belong in their home countries rather than in the United States. It is there that they imagine that they will reap the rewards of their labor and attain a dignity that is denied in the United States.

Home Care for Sale

2021 ◽  
pp. 48-76
Author(s):  
Richard Schweid
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Home Care ◽  
Home Health Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Regulations ◽  
Gray Market ◽  
Emotional Demands ◽  
And Training

This chapter begins by assessing the psychological and emotional demands of home care work. It then explains how home care, like other aspects of health care in the United States, is a marketplace commodity. Because need is so great, this commodification of home health care has proved tremendously profitable to the agencies serving as middlemen. In theory, these agencies impose a certain quality control, carefully screening and training the aides they send out to work. Unfortunately, this is not always the case. Those agencies that work on a strictly private-pay basis and do not accept Medicaid clients are not subject to the federal regulations and are not legally required to provide aides with any training whatsoever. Moreover, the high cost of using agencies has generated a vast gray market for aides who work freelance and privately, without working for an agency or under any supervision other than that of the client and the client's family.

Institutional Ecosystems of Housing Support in Chinese, Southeast Asian, and African Philadelphia

2016 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Domenic Vitiello ◽  
Arthur Acolin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Support Systems ◽  
Housing Markets ◽  
The United States ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Civil Society Organizations ◽  
Systems Planning ◽  
Support Strategies ◽  
History Of

How has the diversity of post-1965 immigration to the United States influenced newcomers’ housing experiences and civil society’s housing support systems? Planning scholars have shown immigration’s role in revitalizing cities and housing markets, but we have done less to parse the variety of housing problems that immigrants experience and the ways civil society addresses them. This article examines the recent history of civil society organizations’ housing support strategies in Chinese, Southeast Asian, and African communities in Philadelphia. We find that the diversity within and between groups has shaped largely distinct “institutional ecosystems” and approaches to housing support.

Confronting Problems Faced by Pregnant Inmates in State Prisons

1993 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 195-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
John D. Wooldredge ◽  
Kimberly Masters
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Psychological Problems ◽  
Psychological Well Being ◽  
Care And Support ◽  
State Prisons

Very little is known about the types of services currently available in state prisons to combat the physical and psychological problems faced by pregnant inmates. Such services are extremely important for the physical and psychological well-being of these women as well as their subsequently born children. This article presents results from a study of the prevalence and types of policies being implemented voluntarily for the care and support of pregnant inmates in state prisons throughout the United States. The implications of these results for policies designed to reduce the problems faced by pregnant inmates are also presented.

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