‘Alone we go faster, together we go further’: communities of practice in support of making access to health care available to the poor?

2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-4
Author(s):  
Fahdi Dkhimi ◽  
Maymouna Ba ◽  
Kadi Kadiatou
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health

Health Care in US Detention Centers

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-63
Author(s):  
Miguel Cerón Becerra ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Immigration Detention ◽  
Detention Centers ◽  
Relational Justice ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The Us ◽  
Immigrant Organizations ◽  
Preferential Option

The US has built the most extensive immigration detention system globally. Over the last three administrations, several organizations have noted a systemic failure in the provision of health care in detention centers, leading to the torture and death of immigrants. This essay develops the principle of the preferential option for the poor to examine the causes of deficient access to health care and solutions to overcome them. It analyzes the substandard health care in detention centers from the notion of structural violence and systematizes solutions of grassroots immigrant organizations from the idea of solidarity, understood here as a form of friendship with the poor that moves toward relational justice. Its goal is to build bridges between people so that the political will is generated to create policies to improve and enforce health care standards in detention centers and address the unjust foundations of immigration detention.

Democratization, Elites, and the Expansion of Access to Health Care and Medicine

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Harris
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Labor Unions ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Masses

Sociologists have rarely imagined elites as capable of delivering for society the promise of a better future. More frequently, labor unions and left-wing parties, or grassroots social movements, have been looked to as champions of social progress. This chapter explores the broader theoretical contributions of the book and situates the key concepts of “professional movements” and “heightened political competition” in the literature. First, whereas scholarship has emphasized the way in which democratization empowers the masses, this book turns conventional wisdom on its head by suggesting that democratization empowers elites. Second, it calls attention to the role that newly empowered (and public-minded) professionals play in expanding access to healthcare and medicine on behalf of the poor and those in need. Third, it highlights the importance of differences in the character of political competition in the wake of democratic transition in conditioning the possibilities for well-organized professional movements to institute such changes.

scholarly journals The Role of Stigma in Access to Health Care for the Poor

2014 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
HEIDI ALLEN ◽  
BILL J. WRIGHT ◽  
KRISTIN HARDING ◽  
LAUREN BROFFMAN
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health

scholarly journals Access to Health Care for the Poor: Does the Gap Remain?

1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Davis ◽  
Marsha Gold ◽  
Diane Makuc
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Access To Health

Using Technology to Improve Access to Health Care for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Populations

2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 71-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pauline A. Mashima
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Access To Health Care ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Linguistically Diverse ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Department Of Health ◽  
Use Of Technology ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
Improve Access

Important initiatives in health care include (a) improving access to services for disadvantaged populations, (b) providing equal access for individuals with limited or non-English proficiency, and (c) ensuring cultural competence of health-care providers to facilitate effective services for individuals from diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Minority Health, 2001). This article provides a brief overview of the use of technology by speech-language pathologists and audiologists to extend their services to underserved populations who live in remote geographic areas, or when cultural and linguistic differences impact service delivery.

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