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Talking
about Class and Health Class:
Questions & Answers
Q. Is income the only way that economic class affects health? Q. I think perhaps my patient can’t afford the treatment I’ve
recommended. How do I ask him? Got a question? Share it on the Exchange members' discussion
forum. Tools: National Resources Low Income, Social Growth, and Good Health: A History of Twelve Countries, by James C. Riley, University of California Press. This book studies 12 countries that have broken through the limits that low incomes so often impose on human survival: China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Oman, Panama, the former Soviet Union, Sri Lanka, and Venezuela. People had longer and healthier lives in these countries because of 'social growth' that enabled even poor communities to organize programs of schooling, public health, and health care. Reaching for a Healthier Life: Facts on
Socioeconomic Status and Health in the U.S. A recent report from
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research Network
on Socioeconomic Status and Health reveals the relationship between
poor
socioeconomic status and poor health in the U.S. The authors also discuss race
as an additional factor linked to health status and offer policy suggestions
to reduce premature death and eliminate health disparities. Income,
Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States:
Based on 2005 census figures.
Association of Clinicians for the Underserved: Nonprofit, transdisciplinary group to improve the health of America's underserved populations and enhance the development and support of the health care clinicians serving these populations. Profiles of the Uninsured: Stories from the Commonwealth Fund that illustrate the many costs and consequences of living without coverage. Minnesota Connections Universal Health Care Action Network - MN (UHCAN-MN): Providers offer low-cost, mobile screenings for cholesterol, diabetes, blood pressure, pulse. Volunteer docs and nurses do extremely low-cost testing counseling and referral. Tests offered include total cholesterol, lipid panel, liver function. For more information, call 612-384-0973, or contact joel@uhcan-mn.org. Volunteers include Joel Albers, Pharm.D., Mike Cavlan R.N., Ann Ness R.N, Dori Ulman, Jennifer Umola and Diane O’Donnell. Bridge to Benefits: An online program that helps families find out about and apply for Food Support, school meal programs, health care programs, energy assistance, child care assistance and the Earned Income Tax Credit. Produced by the Minnesota Children’s Defense Fund. Children’s Defense Fund Minnesota: Promotes the Children’s Health Security Act, which would ensure that all children have access to affordable, quality health care coverage and eliminate current access and cost barriers. Women and Health Insurance in Minnesota, Office on the Economic Status of Women April 2007. Health insurance rates in the state by gender, as well as rates of public and private coverage. Advancing Community Health Worker Practice and Utilization: The Focus on Financing (PDF: 4.36MB/89 pages); Funding CHW Programs and Services in Minnesota: Looking to the Future (PDF: 1.58MB/28 pages); Community Health Worker National Workforce Study (1.08MB/285 pages) — all are available for download at the Minnesota Department of Health website. |
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