In Sickness And In Wealth

Author : Carol Chan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253037053

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Villagers in Indonesia hear a steady stream of stories about the injuries, abuses, and even deaths suffered by those who migrate in search of work. So why do hundreds of thousands of Indonesian workers continue to migrate every year? Carol Chan explores this question from the perspective of the origin community and provides a fascinating look at how gender, faith, and shame shape these decisions to migrate. Villagers evaluate men's and women's migrations differently, leading to different ideas about which kinds of human or financial flows should be encouraged and which should be discouraged or even criminalized. Despite routine and well-documented instances of exploitation of Indonesian migrant workers, some villagers still emphasize that a migrant's success or failure ultimately depends on that individual's morality, fate, and destiny. Indonesian villagers construct strategies for avoiding migration-related risks that are closely linked to faith and belief in supernatural agency. These strategies shape the flow of migration from the country and help to ensure the continued confidence Indonesian people have in migration as an act of promise and hope.

Author : Meredith P. Fort,Mary Anne Mercer,Oscar Gish
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Developing Countries
ISBN : 0896087166

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Sickness and Wealth by Meredith P. Fort,Mary Anne Mercer,Oscar Gish Pdf

Demonstrates the impact of the widening wealth gap on the health and well-being of the world's poor.

Author : Gina Robinson
Publisher : Gina Robinson
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In Sickness and In Wealth by Gina Robinson Pdf

What really is the language of love? Kayla and Justin are about to find out. HONEYMOONING AFTER THE ALTAR… Justin and Kayla are finally off on their honeymoon. But first they have to survive a shopping trip to Milan and a few crazy days with Justin's family helping with a rugby tournament in Naples. While Justin's not wild about it, hanging with hot, athletic guys isn't so hard on Kayla. Or is it? And will the forces working against their happily-ever-after reach them in Italy? Or will they find true love in the country known for passion, food, and romance? The sixth installment of seven of the fun, page-turning romantic comedy serial readers are calling intriguing and wonderful! Continue in the exciting and romantic world of the Jet City Billionaires… Switched at Marriage Serial Novellas NOTE: These novellas must be read in the order listed below. If you haven't started the serial yet, pick up an ebook of the first episode, A Wedding to Remember, for FREE on this site! 1-A Wedding to Remember—24,500 words/106 pages 2-The Virgin Billionaire—27,000 words/119 pages 3-To Have and To Hold—28,000 words/120 pages 4-From This Day Forward—26,500 words/113 pages 5-For Richer, For Richest—26,400 words/ 115 pages 6-In Sickness and In Wealth—26,000/114 pages 7-To Love and To Cherish >>>Romantic Comedy >>>New Adult Contemporary Romance >>>Contemporary Romance >>>Women's Fiction Humorous The Jet City Billionaires world presents romantic stories full of humor, laughs, secrets, mysteries, and poignancy. The Switched at Marriage serial follows the story of Justin and Kayla in a modern twist on the classic marriage of convenience story. Scroll up and grab a copy today.

Author : Margaret Bingley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Large type books
ISBN : 1850574804

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Author : Barbara Kivowitz,Roanne Weisman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1937359131

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In Sickness as in Health by Barbara Kivowitz,Roanne Weisman Pdf

Something's happened now what do we do? What do I do? What do I really owe my loved one? And how can I even ask such a question? Having exchanged marriage vows or even if they haven't most people expect their partners to support them when a devastating diagnosis is made or an accident occurs.

Author : Philip Bennett Power
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590804208

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The sick man's comfort book by Philip Bennett Power Pdf

Author : Guian A. McKee
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512823929

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Hospital City, Health Care Nation by Guian A. McKee Pdf

Hospital City, Health Care Nation recasts the story of the U.S. health care system by emphasizing its economic, social, and medical importance in American communities. Focusing on urban hospitals and academic medical centers, the book argues that the country's high level of health care spending has allowed such institutions to become vital, if often problematic, economic anchors for communities. Yet that spending has also constrained possibilities for comprehensive health care reform over many decades, even after the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. At the same time, the role of hospitals in urban renewal, in community health provision, and as employers of low-wage workers has contributed directly to racial health disparities. Guian A. McKee explores these issues through a detailed historical case study of Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital while also tracing their connections across governmental scales--local, state, and federal. He shows that health care spending and its consequences, rather than insurance coverage alone, are core issues in the decades-long struggle over the American health care system. In particular, Hospital City, Health Care Nation points to the increased role of financial capital after the 1960s in shaping not only hospital growth but also the underlying character of these vital institutions. The book shows how hospitals' quest for capital has interacted with structural racism and inequality to shape and constrain the U.S. health care system. Building on this reassessment of the hospital system, its politics, and its financing, Hospital City, Health Care Nation offers ideas for the next steps in health care reform.

Author : Rosemary Stevens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:907456273

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Author : Tonya Thomas
Publisher : Four Winds Press
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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In Sickness and in Weath by Tonya Thomas Pdf

Erica came from a large family and always had to work hard for everything in life. Then she met Donovan Whitmore—the man of her dreams who could give her everything she ever wanted. Only … it turned out Donovan worked just as hard as Erica—-maybe harder. And it turned out their marriage of convenience was only convenient for one of them.

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 583 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309452960

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Communities in Action by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee on Community-Based Solutions to Promote Health Equity in the United States Pdf

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determinants of health. Only part of an individual's health status depends on his or her behavior and choice; community-wide problems like poverty, unemployment, poor education, inadequate housing, poor public transportation, interpersonal violence, and decaying neighborhoods also contribute to health inequities, as well as the historic and ongoing interplay of structures, policies, and norms that shape lives. When these factors are not optimal in a community, it does not mean they are intractable: such inequities can be mitigated by social policies that can shape health in powerful ways. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity seeks to delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. This report focuses on what communities can do to promote health equity, what actions are needed by the many and varied stakeholders that are part of communities or support them, as well as the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome.

Author : David W. Jones,Russell S. Woodbridge
Publisher : Kregel Publications
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780825445071

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Health, Wealth, and Happiness by David W. Jones,Russell S. Woodbridge Pdf

Be faithful in your giving and God will reward you financially. It's not always stated that blatantly but the promises of the Prosperity Gospel--or the name-it-and-claim-it gospel, the health-and-wealth gospel, the word of faith movement, or positive confession theology--are false. Yet its message permeates the preaching of well-known Christian leaders: Joyce Meyer, T. D. Jakes, Joel Osteen, Creflo Dollar, Kenneth and Gloria Copeland, and many more. The appeal of this teaching crosses racial, gender, denominational, and international boundaries. Why are otherwise faithful Christians so easily led astray? Because the Prosperity Gospel contains a grain of biblical truth, greatly distorted. For anyone who knows that Prosperity Gospel theology is wrong but has trouble articulating and refuting the finer points, this concise edition contains all the robust arguments of the hard-hitting original edition in a shorter, more accessible form.

Author : Meredith Fort,Mary Anne Mercer,Oscar Gish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1942919042

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Sickness and Wealth by Meredith Fort,Mary Anne Mercer,Oscar Gish Pdf

Author : Ross Douthat
Publisher : Convergent Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593237366

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The Deep Places by Ross Douthat Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. “A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition--and no medically approved cure. From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat's search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed "hypochondriacs" are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath. The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope.

Author : Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780470626597

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Partners in Health by Kaiser Permanente Institute for Health Policy Pdf

Praise for Partners in Health "The combination of visionary leadership, knowledge, and superb timing makes this book a winner. Health care is evolving toward collaboration and integration, and this book is essential reading for anyone wishing to change the relationships between hospitals and physicians." Donald W. Fisher, PhD, president and CEO, the American Medical Group Association "This book is a must-read for anyone committed to a high-performance health system. It spells out the practical steps that will move us toward an accessible, coordinated, patient-centered system of care. Its recommendations for payment and regulatory reform underscore the urgency of comprehensive health reform if the current misaligned incentives are to be changed to support those on the frontlines in providing the best care with prudent stewardship of resources." Karen Davis, PhD, president, The Commonwealth Fund "Closer physician-hospital integration would lead to higher quality care at lower cost. Partners in Health is a masterful guide to past integration efforts, current models of success, and thoughtful recommendations for future progress." Victor R. Fuchs, PhD, Henry J. Kaiser Jr. Professor Emeritus, Stanford University "The working relationship of hospitals and physicians must be restructured for the United States to achieve more efficient, accountable care. But addressing our urgent challenges can't wait for all hospitals and physicians to join highly structured systems. Thankfully, the authors offer steps that all the major stakeholders can take today to spur new models and start the flywheel of trust spinning at new speeds." Richard Umbdenstock, president and CEO of the American Hospital Association "Transitioning U.S. health care from fragmentation to integration, in the context of a more rational payment system, is sure to be a long and tortuous journey. Partners in Health is a kind of Fodor's Guide to the voyage. No one committed to health reform should travel without it." Susan Dentzer, editor-in-chief, Health Affairs

Author : Andrew T. Simpson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780812296518

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The Medical Metropolis by Andrew T. Simpson Pdf

In 2008, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Centers (UPMC) hoisted its logo atop the U.S. Steel Building in downtown Pittsburgh, symbolically declaring that the era of big steel had been replaced by the era of big medicine for this once industrial city. More than 1,200 miles to the south, a similar sense of optimism pervaded the public discourse around the relationship between health care and the future of Houston's economy. While traditional Texas industries like oil and natural gas still played a critical role, the presence of the massive Texas Medical Center, billed as "the largest medical complex in the world," had helped to rebrand the city as a site for biomedical innovation and ensured its stability during the financial crisis of the mid-2000s. Taking Pittsburgh and Houston as case studies, The Medical Metropolis offers the first comparative, historical account of how big medicine transformed American cities in the postindustrial era. Andrew T. Simpson explores how the hospital-civic relationship, in which medical centers embraced a business-oriented model, remade the deindustrialized city into the "medical metropolis." From the 1940s to the present, the changing business of American health care reshaped American cities into sites for cutting-edge biomedical and clinical research, medical education, and innovative health business practices. This transformation relied on local policy and economic decisions as well as broad and homogenizing national forces, including HMOs, biotechnology programs, and hospital privatization. Today, the medical metropolis is considered by some as a triumph of innovation and revitalization and by others as a symbol of the excesses of capitalism and the inequality still pervading American society.