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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778139803321

Titolo

America's uninsured crisis [[electronic resource] ] : consequences for health and health care / / Committee on Health Insurance Status and Its Consequences, Board on Health Care Services, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2009

ISBN

0-309-14088-9

1-282-23922-8

9786612239229

0-309-12790-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (238 p.)

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medically uninsured persons - United States

Public health - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Reviewers""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Caught in a Downward Spiral""; ""3 Coverage Matters""; ""4 Communities at Risk""; ""5 Summary of Findings and Recommendation""; ""Appendix A: Executive Summary of the 2004 IOM Report ""Insuring America�s Health: Principles and Recommendations""""; ""Appendix B: Statistics on the Nonelderly U.S. Population Without Health Insurance, 2007""; ""Appendix C: State Regulations Promoting Access to Individual Health Insurance Policies, 2007""

""Appendix D: Recent Studies of the Impacts of Health Insurance for Children: Summary Tables""""Appendix E: Recent Studies of the Impacts of Health Insurance for Adults: Summary Table""; ""Appendix F: Committee Biographies""