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Download full textValdez, Robert Otto Burciaga – 1986
While many health plans have increased the proportion of costs borne by users, opponents to cost sharing fear that this may result in poorer health for children. The Rand Health Insurance Experiment examined this issue in a general population. Health outcomes of children in a free-care plan were compared with those of children in cost-sharing…
Descriptors: Children, Consumer Economics, Costs, Family Health
Peer reviewedLee, Philip R. – Journal of Medical Education, 1970
Analysis of the crisis in our nation's health care delivery system, and efforts being made for prompt correction. (IR)
Descriptors: Delinquency, Disadvantaged, Family Health, Federal Programs
Slesinger, Doris P.; And Others – 1977
In the summer of 1976, 133 permanent residents in the Hispano community in Wisconsin's Dane, Dodge and Jefferson counties were interviewed to determine their perceptions of their own and their families' health needs and of their unmet health needs. Respondents were primarily women since it was felt they were the best informed about the family's…
Descriptors: Community Surveys, Dental Health, Emotional Problems, Family Characteristics
Fitch, Sandra F. – 1981
This module, one of six on teaching consumer matters to low-income groups, focuses on health care alternatives. It provides helpers of low-income people in Virginia with a composite of information in the areas of traditional health care, alternatives to the traditional methods, insurance, medications, and fraudulent practices. At the end of each…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Consumer Education, Drug Education, Family Health
PDF pending restorationHealth Resources and Services Administration (DHHS/PHS), Rockville, MD. Office for Maternal and Child Health Services. – 1996
This publication is a compilation of maternal and child health and related laws enacted since 1912. It is designed as a ready reference for understanding Title V state programs and Title V discretionary project grant programs. The Maternal and Child Health (MCH) program has operated as a federal-state partnership for more than 70 years. This…
Descriptors: Block Grants, Child Health, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs
Peer reviewedSchur, Claudia L.; And Others – Medical Care, 1987
Examines the following issues pertaining to the health care of different Hispanic subpopulations: (1) utilization of the health services; (2) insurance coverage; (3) mean annual expenses, by source of payment; and (4) health status. Cubans, Mexicans, and Puerto Ricans have different health care practices. Policy implications are discussed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Access to Health Care, Cross Cultural Studies, Cubans, Cultural Differences
Washington Research Project, Cambridge, MA. Children's Defense Fund. – 1977
This assessment of Medicaid's Early Periodic Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment (EPSDT) program for children, based on a 2-year survey of national data and a study of EPSDT programs in five states (Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York and South Carolina), documents inadequate health resources for low-income children and their families. The…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Welfare, Delivery Systems, Disadvantaged Youth
Wallace, Susan W.; Myer, Donna Foster – 1983
This instructor's resource guide, one in a series of products from a project to develop an associate degree program for paraprofessional rural family health promoters, deals with teaching a course in health care organization and issues. Covered in the first section of the guide are the role of health care organization and health issues in rural…
Descriptors: Allied Health Occupations Education, Associate Degrees, Behavioral Objectives, Classroom Techniques
