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... for the case of asthma in chapter 1-are never free of moral values and prejudices. The intellectual background of this approach is the sociology of deviance, and consequently the emphasis is more on the consequences of medical knowledge than on its substance: the act of diagnosing a certain bio...

... cancer, or Michael J. Fox's foundation to fund research into Parkinson's disease. Other patient advocacy organizations are started by the loved ones of a person with the disease. The Allergy and Asthma Network Mothers of Asthmatics (AANMA) began with the efforts of a mother of an asthmatic seeking...

...' Health Study. Arthritis and Rheumatism 50 : 3458 -3467. Kull, I., C. Almqvist, G. Lilja, G. Pershagen, and M. Wickman. 2004 . Breast-Feeding Reduces the Risk of Asthma during the First Four Years of Life. Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology 114 : 755 -760. Li, R., V. J. Rock, and L...

... and Childhood Asthma: Risk Factors, Interactions, and Ramifications . Reproductive Toxicology 32 : 198 – 204 . Duffey K. Popkin B. . 2007 . Shifts in Patterns and Consumption of Beverages between 1965 and 2002 . Obesity 15 : 2739 – 2747 . Epping-Jordan J. 2001...

.... Guo, J. J., R. Jang, K. N. Keller, A. L. McCracken, W. Pan, and R. J. Cluxton. 2005 . Impact of School-Based Health Centers on Children with Asthma. Journal of Adolescent Health 37 : 266 -274. Haaken, J., and J. Korschgen. 1988 . Adolescents and Conceptions of Social Relations...

... make them less likely to achieve good outcomes. Case-mix adjustment is critical even when quality is assessed using a validated measure of quality. For example, one of the initial HEDIS indi- cators of quality—asthma hospitalization rates—has been shown at the community level to be inversely...

... .” New York Times , March 23 . Johnson J. 2013 . “ Maine Jobs Still Scarce Four Years after Recession .” Maine Center for Economic Policy (blog) . July . www.mecepblog.org . Kaiser Family Foundation . 2010 . “ Adult Self-Reported Current Asthma Prevalence Rate .” www.kff.org/other...

...-of-pocket costs might deter the use of essential medications, private employers drove the early adoption of VBID in the early 2000s by reducing patient cost sharing for specific high-value prescription drug classes (e.g., antihypertensives, lipid-lowering agents, glucose-lowering medications, asthma...

... of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics 1 : 33 -75. Locke, J. 1960 [1689]. Two Treatises of Government . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Luz, C. 1999 . Socioeconomic Factors and Asthma Hospitalization Rates in New York City. Journal of Asthma 36 : 343 -350. Madsen, D. 1985...

... health No 56 Yes 6 Asthma No 56 Yes 5 Hypertension...

... in American Children: Estimates of Morbidity, Mortality, and Costs for Lead Poisoning, Asthma, Cancer, and Developmental Disabilities.” Environmental Health Perspectives 110 , no. 7 : 721 – 28 . Lanphear Bruce P. . 2005 . “Low-Level Environmental Lead Exposure and Children's Intellectual...

... to health. The Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center has used community benefit dollars to fund a community health initiative. The initiative partners with community-based organizations to address asthma, accidental injuries, poor nutrition, and other preventable illnesses and injuries...

... with Asthma Admitted to Two Urban Hospitals. American Journal of Medicine 100 : 386 -394. Havighurst, C. C. 1995 . Health Care Choices: Private Contracts as Instruments of Health Reform . Washington, DC: AEI. Hoffman, S. 1999 . A Proposal for Federal Legislation to Address Health Insurance...

..., adversely exacerbating the disease burden and additively increasing its negative effects” (28). Because people belonging to socioeconomically disadvantaged populations face chronic health conditions such as asthma and obesity more frequently and more severely, on average, than people belonging...

...; $19.95 paper. Understand and Control Your Asthma. Helene Boutin and Louis-Phillipe Boulet. Mon- treal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1995. 119 pp. $34.95 cloth; $14.95 papcr. ...

..., physician perspectives on a national health program, state mandated health insurance programs, competition in national health policy, ac- cess issues in asthma, and medical malpractice claims settlement alternatives. Program chair is John Paul at the Research Triangle Institute, Research Triangle...

... state, but inevitably con- tains a social component. Presumptions about the causes and cures of disease- as Gabbay demonstrates for the case of asthma in chapter 1-are never free of moral values and prejudices. The intellectual background of this approach is the sociology of deviance...

... and Adolescent Health Policy at the MassGeneral Hospital for Children, a research and training center with an active fellowship program in general pediatrics. His research has examined asthma, middle ear disease, children’s hospitalization, health insurance, and child- hood chronic illness...

... to partner with a nonprofit (Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies) to conduct surveys on the prevalence of asthma and ways that residents were dealing with the disease. The information generated local responses including “enrolling residents in free health insurance, educating physi...

..., a high school project on local air pollution led the Latino community group El Puente to partner with a nonprofit (Community Information and Epidemiological Technologies) to conduct surveys on the prevalence of asthma and ways that residents were dealing with the disease. The information...