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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911105782603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Bingley [England], : Emerald Insight, 2011
• ISBN: 9786613320117; 9781283320115; 1283320118; 9780857247162; 0857247166
• 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.

Battle cries : Black women and intimate partner abuse / / Hillary Potter

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911150084503321
• Autore: Potter Hillary <1969->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : New York University Press, c2008
• ISBN: 9780814768471; 0814768474; 9780814767719; 0814767710
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (286 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.82/9208996073
• Soggetti: Intimate partner violence - United States; African American women - Abuse of; Abused women - 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 (p. 249-267) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Black Feminist Criminology and the Power of Narrative -- 3. Dynamic Resistance -- 4. Surviving Childhood -- 5. Living Through It -- 6. Fighting Back -- 7. Getting Out -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: Contrary to the stereotype of the “strong Black woman,” African American women are more plagued by domestic violence than any other racial group in the United States. In fact, African American women experience intimate partner violence at a rate 35% higher than white women and about two and a half times more than women of other races and ethnicities. This common portrayal can hinder black women seeking help and support simply because those on the outside don't think help is needed. Yet, as Hillary Potter argues in Battle Cries: Black Women and Intimate Partner Abuse, this stereotype often helps these African American women to resist and to verbally and physically retaliate against their abusers. Thanks to this generalization, Potter observes, black women are less inclined to label themselves as “victims” and more inclined to fight back.Battle Cries is an eye-opening examination of African American women's experiences with intimate ; partner abuse, the methods used to contend with abusive mates, and the immediate and enduring consequences resulting from the maltreatment. Based on intensive interviews with 40 African American women abused by their male partners, Potter's analysis takes into account variations in their experiences based on socioeconomic class, education level, and age, and discusses the common abuses and perceptions they share. Combining her remarkable findings with black feminist thought and critical race theory, Potter offers a unique and significant window through which we can better understand this understudied though rampant social problem.