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...Adam Bonica; Howard Rosenthal; Kristy Blackwood; David J. Rothman Abstract Context: The distribution of physicians across geography and employers has important implications for the delivery of medical services. This study examines how the political beliefs of physicians influence their decisions...

...: These findings suggest that devastating outcomes of the coronavirus pandemic were linked to a long history of racial marginalization and entrenched discrimination produced by structural inequalities embedded in our geographies. This knowledge should be used to inform public health planning. jtrounstine...

... and Law. Jane Deane Clark is the manager of Analysis Services, Division of Research, Data Policy and Services, Michigan Hospital Association. She has an A.B. in geography from Vassar College, an M.A. in geography from Columbia University, and is a candidate for a Ph.D. in medical geography from...

... than one's genetic code (Roeder 2014 ). Sandefur and Smyth ( 2011 : v) expound on this matter, noting, “Geography is destiny: the services available to people from eligible populations . . . are determined not by what their problems are or the kinds of services they may need, but rather by where...

... at Duke University and Harvard University. Mary Lawhon recently completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Cape Town and is now a lecturer in the Department of Geography, Geoinformatics, and Meteorology at the University of Pretoria. Her primary research interest is urban political...

.... Contributors 605 Joseph L. Scarpaci is an assistant professor of geography at the University of Iowa. In 1986 the Association of American Geographers awarded him the Jacques M. May Prize for the most meritorious dissertation in medical geography. He is currently researching the political economy...

... , A. B. “Epidemiological Priorities as a Basis for Health Policy.” Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 54 : 10 -22, January 1978 . Good , C. M. “Traditional Medicine: An Agenda for Medical Geography.” Social Science & Medicine 11 : 705 -13, November 1977 . Green , R...

... systems (CSDH 2008 ; Whitehead 1991 ). Yet, differences in health status across social groups defined by characteristics other than SES—for example, by ethnicity or race; gender; disability status; or geography—could also be considered preventable and unjust, depending on the circumstances. So, while...

... defined in terms of socioeconomic status, race/ethnicity, or geography; whether pol- 1. There were certainly some earlier seminal commissioned reports, including the Black report (1980) on socioeconomic inequalities in the United Kingdom and the Heckler report (1985) on racial disparities...

... 27 May-2 June in Honolulu, Hawaii. For more infixmation contact Nancy Lewis, Department of Geography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96882. News and Notes 201 The seventeenth annual INTENSIVE BIOETHICS COURSE will be conducted 2-8 June...

... Medicaid Expansions Are Not Created Equal: The Geography and Targeting of the Affordable Care Act .” Working Paper No. 26289, National Bureau of Economic Research . doi.org/10.3386/w26289 . Goldin Jacob , Lurie Ithai Z. , and McCubbin Janet . 2019 . “ Health Insurance and Mortality...

... and the Failure of Discourse: Facing Up to the Power of Sellers . Health Affairs 28 : 1305 – 1315 . Wennberg J. E. Fisher E. S. Skinner J. S. . 2002 . Geography and the Debate Over Medicare Reform . Health Affairs Web Exclusive : W96 – W114 . White J. 1995 . Competing...

.... As this historical perspective indicates, at various times mental retardation seems to have been viewed as a moral problem, a social problem, a health problem, an educational problem, and various combinations thereof. We note the influence of economics, geography, architecture, and Hitler. One stable...

..., such as dementia, and has important clinical consequences for the presentation of diseases and responses to treatments. The tendency to minimize the utility of age is also seen when policy makers espouse the importance of education, race, geography, or socioeconomic status as a rationale for avoiding the use...

..., for example, involve values shared among disparately located people or, alternatively, geography shared by diverse and perhaps deeply divided individuals. There have been many calls on both the political left and the political right for a new sense of community applicable to both dimensions...

... is the antithesis of intrasystem rationality. Balkanization is also the antithesis of regulatory pluralism, which aspires to greater harmonization of the legal, economic, and political forces driving health care delivery and finance. The next section of this article surveys the geography of America’s...

... America: The Geography of Health Care Services and Delivery. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Moscovice , I. , J. Christianson, J. Johnson, J. Kralewski, and W. Manning. 1995 . Building Rural Hospital Networks. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press...

... “Geographic Accessibility of Health Care in Rural Areas.” For more informa- tion contact Wilbert Gesler, Department of Geography, UNC-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514. 1428 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law Conferences and Meetings The Eleventh National Forum on Quality Improvement...

... to the ground. To name only one obvi- ous challenge, geography provides the basic frame in U.S. politics. One might calculate that health providers in Rochester, Minnesota, are more efficient than their counterparts in Miami, Florida. However, it is notori- ously difficult to translate such a finding...

... as a moral problem, a social problem, a health problem, an educational problem, and various combinations thereof. We note the influence of economics, geography, architecture, and Hitler. One stable variable seems to be the percentage of money spent on mental retardation policy relative to the total...