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Health Care Off the Books

- Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America
Af: Danielle T. Raudenbush Engelsk Paperback

Health Care Off the Books

- Poverty, Illness, and Strategies for Survival in Urban America
Af: Danielle T. Raudenbush Engelsk Paperback
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Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.  
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Millions of low-income African Americans in the United States lack access to health care. How do they treat their health care problems? In Health Care Off the Books, Danielle T. Raudenbush provides an answer that challenges public perceptions and prior scholarly work. Informed by three and a half years of fieldwork in a public housing development, Raudenbush shows how residents who face obstacles to health care gain access to pharmaceutical drugs, medical equipment, physician reference manuals, and insurance cards by mobilizing social networks that include not only their neighbors but also local physicians. However, membership in these social networks is not universal, and some residents are forced to turn to a robust street market to obtain medicine. For others, health problems simply go untreated. Raudenbush reconceptualizes U.S. health care as a formal-informal hybrid system and explains why many residents who do have access to health services also turn to informal strategies to treat their health problems. While the practices described in the book may at times be beneficial to people’s health, they also have the potential to do serious harm. By understanding this hybrid system, we can evaluate its effects and gain new insight into the sources of social and racial disparities in health outcomes.  
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 208
ISBN-13: 9780520305625
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 0520305620
Kategori: Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier
Udg. Dato: 11 feb 2020
Længde: 11mm
Bredde: 228mm
Højde: 172mm
Forlag: University of California Press
Oplagsdato: 11 feb 2020
Forfatter(e): Danielle T. Raudenbush
Forfatter(e) Danielle T. Raudenbush

Kategori Etniske minoriteter og multikulturelle studier

ISBN-13 9780520305625

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 208

Udgave

Længde 11mm

Bredde 228mm

Højde 172mm

Udg. Dato 11 feb 2020

Oplagsdato 11 feb 2020

Forlag University of California Press