1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910781583403321

Titolo

Access to care and factors that impact access, patients as partners in care and changing roles of health providers [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley [England], : Emerald Insight, 2011

ISBN

1-283-32011-8

9786613320117

0-85724-716-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Research in the sociology of health care, , 0275-4959 ; ; v. 29

Altri autori (Persone)

KronenfeldJennie J

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Health services accessibility

Medical policy

Health & Fitness - Health Care Issues

Social Science - Sociology - General

Medical - Health Care Delivery

Health systems & services

Sociology

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

Systems of health-care delivery : sociological issues linked to health reform and roles of patients and providers / Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld -- Insider knowledge and male nurses : how men become registered nurses / Karrie Ann Snyder -- The direct care worker : overcoming definitions by negation / Thomas R. Konrad -- Medical interpreting by bilingual staff whose primary role is not interpreting : contingencies influencing communication for dual-role interpreters / Mary-Rose Mueller, Stergios Roussos, Linda Hill, Nadia Salas, Veronica Villarreal, Nicole Baird, Melbourne Hovell -- Private rehabilitation clinics in a public, universal health-care system / Walter Schönfelder, Trond Bliksvær -- Emergent situations when older homebound women had fortuitous help and a typology of helpers who were involved / Eileen J. Porter, Melinda S. Markham, Edward L. Kinman, Lawrence H. Ganong -- Patients, trust, and patient participation : factors influencing whether



patients want to be active health care participants / Scott V. Savage -- Health-care consumerism and access to health care : educating elders to improve both preventive and end-of-life care / Eva Kahana, Boaz Kahana, Loren Lovegreen, Jeffrey Kahana, Jane Brown, Diana Kulle -- Feminist centers negotiating medical authority in the 21st century : implications for feminist care and the U.S. women's health movement / Ayse Dayi -- A strange thing happened on the way to the market : privatization in Malaysia and its effects on the health-care system / Kai-Lit Phua, Simon Barraclough -- American health care : public opinion differences in the confidence, affordability, and need for reform / Rebecca L. Utz, Richard Nelson, Peter Dien -- Medicare knowledge and health service utilization among older adults / Noah J. Webster.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume in the highly-regarded Research in the Sociology of Health Care series, deals with both macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving access to care, factors that impact access, patients as partners in care and changing roles of health providers. It includes: examination of factors that impact access to care such as racial/ethnic, social, demographic and structural sources, discussion of changing patterns of care and changing patterns of interaction between patients and providers of care, and investigation of changing roles of health care providers within the health care delivery system. Key contributions focus on linkages to policy, population concerns and patients and/or providers of care as ways to meet health care needs of people both in the US and in other countries. This volume relates to issues of consumers of health care services, providers of such services and policy perspectives. It also raises issues of the availability of services, access to those services, quality of services and the role of government in services provision.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910882998003321

Autore

Carter Albert Howard <1943->

Titolo

Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us : : Comedy and Medicine / / Albert Howard Carter III

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA : , : University of California Medical Humanities Consortium, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

0-9834639-1-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 pages): : illustrations ;

Collana

Perspectives in medical humanities

Disciplina

616.89/165

Soggetti

Wit and humor - Therapeutic use

Wit and humor in medicine

Humour en medecine

Humour - Emploi en therapeutique

Laughter Therapy

Wit and Humor as Topic

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-244) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comedy, a cancer patient, a clown -- Vonnie, the hospital clown -- Party time! A ritual of black humor in the emergency room and one forty-year-old joke -- From comforting clowns to ironic jokers : the many kinds and purposes of comedy -- Talking past taboo : when language mentions the unmentionable -- Imagine that! Images of the regrettably mechanical body -- Humour characters and their stories -- "Take this, you moron!" : The joys and sorrows of Freudian attacks -- Aging and death : we're all in the same damn boat -- Brunhilde blesses the ICU and other hospital humor -- Rabid fluffy, the emergency room scapedog -- "Smile when you say that, mister" : conclusions about clowns and jokers.

Sommario/riassunto

From the cover. Why do we tell jokes about dcotors and hospitals? Why do patients often initiate humor with healthcare workers? Howard Carter presents and analyzes humor inside and outside of the hospital. He argues that rituals of comedy affirm our humanity, aid healing, and



should be routinely part of medical care. Carter discusses a wide range of comedy: the work of a hospital clown, ER humor that ranges from the playful to the harsh, humor that breaks taboo, humorous uses of imagery, character, and story, Freudian attacks, and jokes about sex, aging, and deathl. Humor, he finds, helps us deal with difficult subjects, creates social bonds, and affirms positive values. Because humor frees our imaginations and gives us pleasure, it provides a humane context for maintaining health when we are well and for healing when we are sick.