Search Results for stigma and life chances

...Bruce Link; Mark L. Hatzenbuehler Abstract Stigma processes play an underrecognized role in the distribution of life chances, influencing health through the production of disadvantage and the induction of stress. Policies enact stigma processes, mitigate them, or ignore them. If each of these two...

.... Strully, and N. G. Bennett. 2003 . The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. Coven, M. 2002 . An Introduction to TANF. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Policy Report , February 14. Washington, DC: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities...

...Elizabeth Villiers Gemmette “Selective pregnancy reduction” is a medical procedure used to reduce a multiple pregnancy, often a multiple pregnancy induced by in vitro fertilization or drug therapy. In such instances, healthy embryos are sacrificed in order to maximize the chances of survival...

... Association 2008 ). Researchers have also examined the burden of chronic illness on labor market outcomes, such as worker productivity (Goetzel et al. 2003 ). Still others have examined the consequences of chronic illness on quality of life (Wilson and Cleary 1995 ), functioning and performing daily...

... than hospitals. Most abortions (about 95%) occur in freestanding clinics (Jones et al. 2019 ), and although these clinics offer excellent care, this has further exacerbated the separation of abortion from other medical institutions. Added to these issues is the stigma against abortion in American...

... where the hyperinflation of the Weimar Republic is part of national consciousness, the correspondent previously quoted wrote of the little chance that the government’s proposal to abolish the gross wage escalator for pensions had of passing.2 The causes of rapid growth in the disability...

... and its underlying rationale; and the possibility that changes in that program may jeopardize the chances for a more rational, just, and systematic approach to the provision of health care to all Americans. Copyright © 1985 by Duke University Press 1985 Medicare Reform: Social...

... . Deviance and Medicalization: From Badness to Sickness . Philadelphia: Temple University Press. Cooper, Charlotte. 1998 . Fat and Proud: The Politics of Size . London: Women's Press. Crawford, Robert. 1980 . Healthism and the Medicalization of Everyday Life. International Journal of Health...

... and that are not swayed by visions of how genetics will transform tomorrow’s medical and social life. The books are only two of the many written in response to efforts by the U.S. government to map and sequence all the genes in the human genome (the so-called Human Genome Project), but each expresses...

... disorganization render them uniquely ineffective as political actors in the struggle for social resources (Scull 1985). For those patients who overcome clinical adversity to function effectively in society, the stigma of mental illness is a pow- erful disincentive to personal activism on behalf of less...

... stands or falls on one’s own merits. A person may not be treated according to, or have his life chances determined by, group characteristics that have no relation to individual achievement-race, gender, age, and now physical health. With the tools of civil rights, citizens fight the harms...

...Brian K. Finch Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully, and Neil G. Bennett. The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. 258 pp. $55.00 cloth; $21.95 paper. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Adams, M. 2001 . Validity of Birth...

... hardship, Public Law 104-193 allows states to exempt up to 20 percent of the caseload from the five-year life- time limit. The administrative and epidemiological foundations of this figure remain obscure. Who should be exempted from time limits and for how long? Can...

... a chance to turn on the screen. Notably, this construction of the meaning and importance of viewing preceded her interaction with the law mandating viewing. There were limits to the law's ability to compel abortion patients to view their ultrasound images. Four women we interviewed did not look...

... of Hospitalization for Respiratory Disease in Infancy. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 157 : 237 -243. Ball, T. M., and A. L. Wright. 1999 . Health Care Costs of Formula-Feeding in the First Year of Life. Pediatrics 103 : 870 -876. Beauchamp, T. L., R. R. Cook, W. E. Fayerweather, G. K...

.... Not that I think anybody should do drugs, but if you are going to be hooked on injecting drugs, at least do it cleanly. Give . . . yourself a chance to live long enough, so that we can help you deal better with your life, get rid of the problems” (Interview with Kristine Gebbie). After the mid-term...

... and market concerns and which lacks the status of a federal entitlement program. The varying eligibility standards maintained by states also contribute to a problem of distributional equity because the chances of receiving food change drastically de- pending upon one's residence (see Lipsky...

... Programme. Yach, D., and D. Bettcher. 1998. The Globalization of Public Health, I: Threats and Opportunities. American Journal of Public Health 88: 735–738. Dalton Conley, Kate W. Strully, and Neil G. Bennett. The Starting Gate: Birth Weight and Life Chances. Berkeley: University of Califor...

... cases in which highprofile patient groups demanded drugs that were described as “lifesaving” or “last chance,” the committee decided not to include these drugs, and these decisions remained in place despite wide media coverage. There is growing evidence that this is a social and policy learn...

...–Berkeley team members and the CAG. The first half of the final interview instru- ment included questions about demographic background and the nature of the disability; daily life routines and life satisfaction; social support; perceptions of stigma, discrimination, and life control; and relationships...