Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article examines how nineteenth‐century scholars reconstructed the geography of early Buddhism through a historically contingent hierarchy of texts that privileged Chinese monastic travelogues over Sri Lankan Buddhist chronicles. Focusing on the relationship between the Pāli vaṃsa literature—especially the Dīpavaṃsa and Mahāvaṃsa—and Chinese ...
Bhadrajee Hewage
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The discrepancy between objective and subjective assessments of catastrophic health expenditure: evidence from China. [PDF]
Health Policy PlanGuo B, Liu C, Yao Q.
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Moving Toward Universalism? The Future of Long‐Term Care in the United States
The 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
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Exploring the effects catastrophic health expenditure due to non-communicable diseases and coping strategies: A case study among households in Bangladesh. [PDF]
Public Health Pract (Oxf)Awal Chowdhury NMR +4 more
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Improving Population Health Through Housing Policy: Lessons From the Public Housing Program
The 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
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The Inverted Circuit: Attribution, Answerability, and Accountability in Canadian Health Governance
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Canada and the United States have not failed for want of accountability mechanisms in health governance. They have failed because accountability is repeatedly invoked where attribution and answerability are not already standing, so the result is the punishment of visible individuals rather than structural correction.
ALAN H. MENKIS
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Catastrophic Health Expenditure and its Associated Factors among Adult Cancer Patients in a Teaching Hospital in East Coast of Malaysia. [PDF]
Asian Pac J Cancer PrevKamarul Zaman MAH +7 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the published writings of Lorna Gulston (c. 1932–2023), a hitherto unknown Northern Irish civil servant who wrote many articles for the earliest British lesbian magazines such as Arena Three, Sappho and Sequel. In doing so, the article asks: How did Gulston find her way onto the pages of these pioneering magazines?
Maurice J. Casey
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Association between catastrophic health expenditure and mental health among elderly in China: the potential role of income and social activity. [PDF]
BMC GeriatrSun S +5 more
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Partitioned Desires: Female Agency and Interfaith Relationships Around the Partition of India
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Through an examination of the phenomenon of abduction, I suggest that the preoccupation with women's violation during the 1947 Partition of India has obfuscated a history of female desire. Considering accusations of kidnapping made by women's families against men belonging to a different religion in instances of interfaith desire, I ...
Angad Singh
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