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Closeness and disappointment in Jordanian friendships Proximité et déception en amitié en Jordanie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Western folk models of friendship assume that friends like one another, implying mutually positive feelings. However, accounts of friendship from across times and places suggest that disappointment goes along with friendship as often as mutual affection.
Susan MacDougall
wiley   +1 more source

Moving Toward Universalism? The Future of Long‐Term Care in the United States

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points America's long‐term care system is largely poverty‐based, requiring most older adults to spend down their assets to qualify for limited, Medicaid‐funded support, which is biased toward institutional care and plagued by bureaucratic complexity and enrollment hurdles. There are now, however, some promising changes.
PAMELA HERD
wiley   +1 more source

Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program

open access: yesThe Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.
Policy Points Housing is a fundamental social determinant of health and is particularly amenable to policy intervention. Policies that seek to improve health should improve housing quality, affordability, and stability. The public housing program has improved health across the life course, but the structure of the program currently limits its ...
ANDREW FENELON
wiley   +1 more source

Accommodating Women: Geographies of Citizenship in the Twentieth‐Century Campaign for Women's Jury Rights

open access: yesGender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Australian women were among the first in the world to receive electoral suffrage, yet it took until 1997 before they had full equality of jury suffrage. This article examines the debate around female jurors by focusing less on discourses of citizenship than on the subterranean spatial arrangements upon which equality depended.
Alecia Simmonds
wiley   +1 more source

The Ideology of Sovereign Money: How Bitcoin Harms Politics

open access: yes
Constellations, EarlyView.
Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten
wiley   +1 more source

Catastrophic health expenditure and impoverishment in Turkey

Health Policy, 2010
This study aims to identify the level of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) in Turkey and, to reveal household factors predicting this outcome.CHE is calculated from a national representative data derived from TurkStat, Household Budget Survey, Consumption Expenditures, 2006.
Nazan Yardim   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Household catastrophic health expenditure: a multicountry analysis

Lancet, The, 2003
Health policy makers have long been concerned with protecting people from the possibility that ill health will lead to catastrophic financial payments and subsequent impoverishment. Yet catastrophic expenditure is not rare. We investigated the extent of catastrophic health expenditure as a first step to developing appropriate policy responses.We used a
Christopher Murray, D B Evans
exaly   +3 more sources

Determinants of catastrophic health expenditure in Vietnam

The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2020
AbstractBackgroundThe Government of Vietnam has set the goal of achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by 2025. Health insurance (HI) is being considered a tool to achieve this goal. However, out‐of‐pocket spending and catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) remain high. Research evidence on how to reduce these expenditures to achieve UHC is essential.
Nguyen Thi Thu Thuong   +4 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Abortion as a Catastrophic Health Expenditure in the United States

Women's Health Issues, 2020
Abortion is a critical reproductive health service that is difficult for many in the United States to afford owing to policies aimed at restricting insurance coverage of this basic health service. This article assesses whether the resulting high out-of-pocket cost for abortion could be considered a catastrophic health expenditure, and explores ...
Carmela Zuniga   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Catastrophic Expenditure for Health in the Philippines

Acta Medica Philippina, 2022
Catastrophic expenditure occurs when a household allocates more than 40% of its effective, or non-subsistence, income for health expenditures.1,2 In general, low-income households, those with older persons or persons with disabilities, and families with members requiring healthcare for chronic illnesses are more likely to experience this phenomenon.
openaire   +1 more source

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