The social impact of AIDS in the United States / / Panel on Monitoring the Social Impact of the AIDS Epidemic ; Committee on AIDS Research and the Behavioral, Social, and Statistical Sciences, Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, National Research Council

• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1993
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (336 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1/969792/00973
• Soggetto topico: AIDS (Disease) - Social aspects - United States
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF AIDS IN THE UNITED STATES -- Copyright -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction and Summary -- EPIDEMICS, IMPACTS, AND RESPONSES -- GENERAL FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -- SPECIFIC FINDINGS AND CONCLUSIONS -- Public Health -- Health Care -- Clinical Research and Drug Regulation -- Voluntary and Community-Based Organizations -- Religion and Religious Groups -- Correctional Systems -- Public Policies on Children and Families -- New York City -- TECHNICAL NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 2 The Practice of Public Health -- HISTORICAL APPROACHES TO DISEASE CONTROL AND "EXCEPTIONALISM -- HIV TESTING -- REPORTING AND CONTACT TRACING -- Reporting Cases of AIDS and HIV Infection -- Partner Notification and Contact Tracing -- Confidentiality Versus the Physician's "Duty to Warn -- QUARANTINE, ISOLATION, AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION -- Use of Quarantine Statutes -- Use of Criminal Statutes -- STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC HEALTH PRACTICE -- Infectious Disease Epidemiology -- Clinical Services -- Planning and Financing Care -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3 Health Care Delivery and Financing -- THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS A SERVICE PROVIDER -- Challenges for Traditional Health Care Delivery -- Organization of HIV/AIDS Care -- Hospital Care -- Out-of-Hospital Care -- Connections with Community-Based Services -- THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS EMPLOYER -- Recruiting and Training Providers -- Physicians -- Nurses -- Confronting Occupational Risks -- HIV-Infected Practitioners and Risks to Patients -- The Burden of Caring for AIDS Patients -- The Influence of Prejudice -- Defining the Scope of Professional Obligation -- THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AS A MARKET -- HEALTH CARE FINANCING -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4 Clinical Research and Drug Regulation -- HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE1 -- Randomized Clinical Trials. ; The Food and Drug Administration and the Politics of Drug Regulation -- Protecting Human Research Subjects -- Patient Advocacy and Activism -- THE FIRST DECADE OF AIDS -- The Emergence of AZT -- The Rise of Advocacy -- The Integration of Activists in the Clinical Trials Process -- CURRENT ISSUES AND PRACTICES -- Drugs and Alternative Therapies -- Who Performs Clinical Trials -- The Design of Clinical Trials and Access to Them -- Children -- Women -- Dissemination of Information -- Peer-Reviewed Reporting of Clinical Research -- Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications -- Science and Health Reporting in the Mass Media -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 5 Religion and Religious Groups -- RELIGIOUS DOCTRINES AND TRADITIONS -- The Nature of Religion -- Religion in the United States -- Religion and Epidemic Disease -- SEXUALITY -- EARLY RESPONSE TO THE EPIDEMIC -- Official and Unofficial Response of Clergy and Lay People -- Isolation of Homosexuals from Religious Communities -- A Changing Climate of Views and Actions -- OFFICIAL STATEMENTS AND LOCAL ACTIVITIES -- African American Churches -- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints -- Evangelical Lutheran Church -- Judaism -- Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. -- Roman Catholic Church -- United Methodist Church -- Activities in Local Congregations -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- 6 Voluntary and Community-Based Organizations -- THE ORIGINS OF COMMUNITY-BASED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS -- WHO VOLUNTEERS AND WHY -- VOLUNTEERS AND WHAT THEY CONTRIBUTE -- THE RISE OF ADVOCACY -- VOLUNTEERS AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS IN THE SECOND DECADE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 7 Correctional Systems -- WHO ARE THE PRISONERS -- THE BURDEN OF HIV DISEASE IN PRISONS -- Testing and Screening Controversies -- Transmission Within Prisons -- HIV Education and Prevention -- Housing and Segregation -- Visitation Policies. ; MEDICAL TREATMENT -- Prisoners' Health and Access to Care -- Access to Experimental Treatments -- TRANSFER AND RELEASE CONCERNS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 8 Public Policies on Children and Families -- NEWBORNS AND CHILDREN -- Resources and Special Programs -- New York City -- Miami -- Anomalies in the Allocation of Resources -- Anomalies in Policies Regarding HIV Testing and Medical Decisions -- LEGAL RECOGNITION OF UNMARRIED COUPLE RELATIONSHIPS -- San Francisco -- The Early Years -- The 1990 Election -- New York City -- Succession Rights Before the Epidemic -- Succession Rights in the Context of AIDS -- Impact of the Braschi Decision -- CONCLUSIONS -- Newborns and Children -- Recognition of Unmarried Couple Relationships -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 9 The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in New York City -- COURSE OF THE EPIDEMIC -- Current Situation -- Localization of the Epidemic -- Predicting the Future of the Epidemic -- THE TWO EPIDEMICS -- Epidemic #1: Men Who Have Sex with Men -- Evolution of the Gay and Lesbian Community -- Initial Response to the Epidemic -- Evolution and Role of Volunteer Organizations -- Men Outside Identified Gay Communities -- Individual Impacts: Discrimination and Impoverishment -- Epidemic #2: Drug Users -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE -- Public Health Effects of HIV/AIDS Concentration -- Ethnicity and Residence: Data Collection and Other Public Health Issues -- The Crisis of Infant Health -- CORRECTIONAL SYSTEMS -- Correctional System's Response to Inmates with AIDS -- IMPACT OF HIV/AIDS ON WOMEN, CHILDREN, AND FAMILIES -- Caring for Infected Children: Examples in Harlem -- RELIGION: CONFLICT OVER CONDOMS AND AIDS EDUCATION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIXES -- A Biographical Sketches -- B Participants in Panel Activities -- Index.
• Titolo autorizzato: The social impact of AIDS in the United States
• ISBN: 1-280-20345-5; 9786610203451; 0-309-58386-1; 0-585-02413-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827566003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II