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The Carceral Shadow: Criminal Justice as a Determinant of Health and Challenges for Policymakers
The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points The criminal justice system functions as a primary social determinant of health in the United States, generating disproportionate physical, psychological, and chronic health burdens on Black communities and other marginalized groups. Policing structural barriers—including qualified immunity, police union contracts, and municipal financing
RASHAWN RAY, KEON GILBERT
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Physician Assisted Suicide: A New Look at the Arguments
, 2007 In this paper, I examine the arguments against physician assisted suicide (PAS). Many of these arguments are consequentialist. Consequentialist arguments rely on empirical claims about the future and thus their strength depends on how likely it is that ...
Dieterle, J.M.
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The Milbank Quarterly, EarlyView.Policy Points Rural communities have more limited access to medical care and worse health outcomes. Existing federal and state policies largely fall short in addressing rural access disparities. Rural health woes require increased government funding for providers and the embrace of alternative health delivery mechanisms, as well as expanded public ...
MICHAEL E. SHEPHERD
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Management of a Request for Physician-Assisted Suicide
, 2010 With the legalization of physician-assisted suicide (PAS) in several states, it remains controversial whether present guidelines take into account the complexity of identifying treatable sources of suffering, including underlying depression and other ...
Rodriguez Davila, Sandra L +3 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A new archive of oral history interviews from LGBTQIA‐identified alumni, faculty and staff reveals the complex ways that queer and transgender students understood, experienced and remembered the long transition from single‐sex to coeducation at Princeton University.
Ezelle Sanford III +2 more
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The Case Against Physician Assisted Suicide
, 1999 Physician assisted suicide (PAS) engenders debate about the meaning of professional identity, what is proper in the doctor/patient relationship, and the physician's appropriate role in society.
Boehnlein, James K.
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Assisted Suicide Compared with Refusal of Treatment: A Valid Distinction?
, 2000 The continuing debate over the deeply controversial issue of physician-assisted suicide has been complicated by confusion about how this practice resembles or differs from refusal of life-sustaining treatment.
Lois Snyder +5 more
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Health Services Research, Volume 60, Issue 2, April 2025.Abstract Objective To determine whether availability of behavioral health crisis care services is associated with changes in emergency department (ED) utilization. Data Sources and Study Setting We used longitudinal panel data (2016–2021) on ED utilization from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project's State ED Databases and a novel dataset on ...
Ashlyn Burns +6 more
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Medical Students' Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Suicide
, 1999 CONTEXT: In November 1994, Oregon became the first US state to legalize physician-assisted suicide (PAS) as an option for end-of-life care. OBJECTIVE: This study compares the attitudes and experiences of medical students in Oregon regarding PAS to those ...
Dipiero, Albert +2 more
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Journal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.Abstract Postmortem decomposition changes of bodies in aquatic environments may offer valuable insights into the postmortem submergence interval (PMSI) for medicolegal death investigators. However, the effects of immersion on the onset of such changes are poorly understood.
Vienna C. Lam +4 more
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