Healthcare Disparities - Legislation & jurisprudence
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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Gerontology in the developing Brazil: achievements and challenges in public policies.

30 May 2009 AIM: In the last three decades, the segment of population aged 60 years and older has more than doubled in Brazil. People aged 80 years and older are expected to be the fastest-growing segment in the near future. This aim of this study was to ... Read more...

State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment.

29 Apr 2009 We examine the potential of mental health/substance abuse (MH/SA) parity laws to reduce the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient treatment at the state level by exploring cross-state variations and their causes, as well as the provisions of ... Read more...

After parity--what's next.

29 Apr 2009 A new law prohibiting unequal treatment limits and financial requirements for mental health and substance abuse (MH/SA) benefits establishes critical protections for 113 million Americans. The new parity law doesn't mandate coverage for MH/SA ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Healthcare Disparities - Legislation & jurisprudence'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Lessons for healthcare reform from the hard-won success of behavioral health insurance parity. 30 Aug 2009
• Report of the 2009 APhA House of Delegates: actions of the legislative body of the American Pharmacists Association. 29 Jun 2009
• Gerontology in the developing Brazil: achievements and challenges in public policies. 30 May 2009
• States address health disparities. 30 May 2009
• Healthy communities: reducing cancer risks. 30 May 2009
• Eliminating health disparities: what have we done and what do we do next? 30 May 2009
• State variations in the out-of-pocket spending burden for outpatient mental health treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• After parity--what's next. 29 Apr 2009
• Cruel and unusual. 26 Feb 2009
• Still ageist after all these years. 17 Feb 2009
• The silver lining. 30 Jan 2009
• Could giving 'unequal' care to inpatients get you sued? 30 Jan 2009
• Australian asylum policies: have they violated the right to health of asylum seekers? 30 Jan 2009
• Health before profits? Learning from Thailand's experience. 19 Jan 2009
• Quality of healthcare. Issue brief. 3 Jan 2009
• Making nutrition and health more equitable within inequitable societies. 30 Dec 2008
• Medical-legal partnerships: transforming health care. 6 Nov 2008
• Parity at last. Business and insurance groups' support was key to its passage. 30 Oct 2008
• Medicare's new restrictions on rehabilitation admissions: impact on the elderly. 30 Oct 2008
• Chronic kidney disease in the United States: a public policy imperative. 13 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Healthcare Disparities'

Definition: Differences in access to or availability of facilities and services

Descriptor UI: D054625

Alternative terms: Healthcare Disparities; Disparity, Healthcare; Healthcare Disparity; Health Care Disparities; Disparities, Health Care; Disparity, Health Care; Health Care Disparity; Disparities, Healthcare;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.374.380; N05.300.493;

History Note: 2008