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J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (3): 740–744.
Published: 01 June 1982
...Howard A. Palley Reviews Murray Milner Jr., Unequal Care: A Case Study of Interorganizational Relations in Health Cure (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980), 204 pp., $22.50 This book constitutes a contribution both to the literature on inter- organizational...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2002) 27 (3): 519–522.
Published: 01 June 2002
...Alice K. Dueker © 2002 by Duke University Press 2002 Susan Stefan. Unequal Rights: Discrimination against People with Mental Disabilities and the Americans with Disabilities Act. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2001. 405 pp. $49.95 cloth...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (1): 117–120.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Daniel Béland Despite these critical remarks, The Unequal Pandemic is an excellent book that students of public heath and social policy should read and engage with as they assess responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and think about ways to fight inequalities in its wake. This book only has...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1981) 5 (4): 593–607.
Published: 01 August 1981
... adjustments in both fee levels and waiting time. Competitive markets require unequal fee levels among providers in the same community and differing provider-to-population ratios across communities. The evidence from dentistry presented supports this expanded theory. Fees and waiting time are inversely related...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1981) 6 (1): 9–28.
Published: 01 February 1981
...; political dislocations caused by disaffected agency and provider groups; and unequal competition for LTC resources resulting from the removal of legislative safeguards and hierarchical support. The article concludes on the note that proponents of the block grant option have not addressed a number...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (4): 697–708.
Published: 01 August 2017
... there is also a redistribution by income, with the package of wages plus benefits being less unequal than wages alone would be. Therefore reformers should be much more careful before criticizing either ESI or its subsidy through the tax code as “unfair,” especially as the likelihood of enacting something better...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 4 (2): 221–249.
Published: 01 April 1979
... the post-service earnings of individual rehabilitants, limiting the stabilizing effects of rehabilitation on labor market turnover, and increasing available time for unpaid work in the home and elsewhere. Unequal intergovernmental cost sharing in the provision of benefits and services, it is argued, seems...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1982) 7 (2): 345–365.
Published: 01 April 1982
...Charles R. Link; Stephen H. Long; Russell F. Settle The Medicaid program was designed to help correct for the unequal access to medical care by income and race in pre-1965 America. Previous evaluations of the program have claimed that on average the eligible poor have enjoyed considerable gains...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (1979) 3 (4): 519–554.
Published: 01 August 1979
... which the decision is made. Children as a class are not well served by the health sector relative to other groups; poor children receive benefits and bear costs unequal to the nonpoor; and there is an unnecessary gap between what our technology is capable of offering and what is actually provided...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2010) 35 (6): 849–887.
Published: 01 December 2010
... insurance. Respondents believe inequalities in access to and quality of health care are more unfair than unequal health outcomes. Even after taking into account self-interest considerations and the other usual suspects driving policy opinions, perceptions of the unfairness of inequalities in health care...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2015) 40 (6): 1115–1155.
Published: 01 December 2015
... — already unequally distributed in society — are associated with differential rates of voter turnout, then these inequalities in democratic representation could, in turn, produce further health inequity. In this study, we use data from eight states from the 2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (3): 409–433.
Published: 01 June 2021
... health is. Moreover, low-income citizens in poor health are 10 points more likely to cite sickness as an impediment to voting than are otherwise similar high-income citizens who are also in poor health. Conclusions: The findings have implications for health policy and unequal electoral engagement...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (2): 187–214.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Jessica Trounstine; Sidra Goldman-Mellor Abstract Context: Segregation has been linked to unequal life chances. Individuals from marginalized communities experience more crime, higher levels of poverty, poorer health, and less civic engagement. In addition, segregated metropolitan regions have been...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2022) 47 (6): 709–729.
Published: 01 December 2022
... underrepresented racial and ethnic groups in the United States experience the highest costs of care and unequal access to high-quality, evidence-based medication therapy. Pharmacoequity refers to equity in access to pharmacotherapies or ensuring that all patients, regardless of race and ethnicity, socioeconomic...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2023) 48 (3): 351–378.
Published: 01 June 2023
...Jake Haselswerdt; Sarah Gollust Abstract Context: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has affected all Americans, its effects have been unequally distributed across geographic areas. These variations in the pandemic's severity—and public perceptions thereof—likely have political consequences. This study...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 127–152.
Published: 01 February 2006
... of Health and Human Services. Institute of Medicine. 2003 . Unequal Treatment, One Year Later . Webcast, March 19, 2003. www.kaisernetwork.org/healthcast/iom/19mar2003 (this site is no longer active). Iyengar, Shanto. 1989 . How Citizens Think about National Issues: A Matter of Responsibility...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2021) 46 (5): 755–759.
Published: 01 October 2021
... suggested that “we are all in this together” and “COVID-19 is an equal opportunity killer” (see, e.g., Blow 2020 ; Reuters 2020 ). These platitudes quickly became exposed as such, however, as evidence demonstrating the unequal reach and consequences of the pandemic accumulated. Data on the epidemiologic...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2020) 45 (6): 905–906.
Published: 01 December 2020
... this strain of coronavirus is novel, its impact both within and across countries is shaped by familiar social and political institutions, public policies, inequalities, and government actions (and inaction). The path of COVID-19 is varied, its burdens fall unequally on different populations, and governments...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2017) 42 (5): 789–801.
Published: 01 October 2017
... disparities that can be traced to unequal, systemic, economic, and social conditions” (McNeill Ransom et al. 2011 : 94). The shift in terminology is not merely semantic, but represents (at its heart) a new programmatic vision—it aims to focus on unjust structural conditions that shape health outcomes...
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J Health Polit Policy Law (2006) 31 (1): 93–126.
Published: 01 February 2006
... compare two recent government-sponsored reports on health disparities: The Health Care Challenge: Acknowledging Disparity, Confronting Discrimination and Ensuring Equality, produced by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1999, and Unequal Treatment: Confront- 96 Journal of Health Politics...