With an awareness and understanding of the effects of poverty on children, pediatricians and other pediatric health practitioners in a family-centered medical home can assess the financial stability of families, link families to resources, and coordinate care with community partners. Further research, ...
Health care disparities exist in the United States. Social inequalities contributing to disparities in health care include poverty, socioeconomic status, being uninsured, one's life course, and being unemployed. Each social inequality has an effect on health status and produces a gradient of poor ...
1Antecedents: Poverty and EarlyPoverty Care ProgramsHealth and Health Care in theUnited States in the Early 1960sBy 1964 America was in the throes of its ‘‘golden days’’ of medicine.∞Deathrates due to infection, heart disease, and stroke had fallen rapidly since the1940s, and even such...
An introduction to the journal is presented in which the editor discusses topics featured in the issue including social determinants of health, health of young African American men, and designing an equitable health care system.BauchnerHowardJAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association...
138%= maximum income eligibility for Medicaid and CHIP in states that expanded Medicaid as part of the Affordable Care Act implementation (some states may vary) 100% – 250%= income eligibility range for cost sharing reduction subsidies on “Silver” plans bought on the Health Insurance Marketpla...
How does the government calculate the federal poverty level? The Department of Health and Human Services calculates the federal poverty guidelines based on the United States Census Bureau's poverty thresholds released in the previous year. A poverty threshold is determined based on a family's total...
Pre-end-stage renal disease care not associated with dialysis facility neighborhood poverty in the United States. Receipt of nephrology care prior to end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is a strong predictor of decreased mortality and morbidity, and neighborhood poverty may... Laura,C,Plantinga,... ...
Poor and uneducated patients may not know what health care is desirable and, if fully insured, have little incentive to minimize the costs of their care. Partly in response to these concerns, most states have moved a substantial portion of their Medicaid caseloads out of traditional competitive ...
Child poverty in the United States is higher than in most other advanced industrialized countries and has negative effects on children's development and educational attainment. We review the factors that contribute to this high rate, examine its consequences for children, and document that a number ...
China has made progress in addressing poverty, healthcare provision and climate change, top United Nations officials past and present have told CGTN, issues that go hand in glove with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 Agenda. ...