Recently added articles from Health and Social Work:
Health care reform: the importance of a public option.(Editorial)
May 01, 2009; ... As the debate over health care reform emerges, a central point of contention has become the inclusion of a public plan, similar to Medicare (Mahar, 2009a). During the 2008 campaign, candidate Obama pledged to create a national Health Insurance Exchange (HIE), which would offer "a range of ...
Posttraumatic stress and growth: the contribution of cognitive appraisal and sense of belonging to the country.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Over the past decade, terrorism has become a worldwide problem, with people in many countries directly exposed. Studies of adults exposed to political violence in Bosnia and Croatia (Grgic, Mandic, Koic, & Knezevic, 2002), Palestine and Israel (Baker & Kevorkian, 1995; Bleich, Gelkopf, & ...
The many layers of social support: capturing the voices of young people with spina bifida and their parents.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Social support is an umbrella term, encompassing various types of support and processes, which need to be more precisely defined (King, Willoughby, Specht, & Brown 2006). Indeed, Ryff and Singer (2000) stated that social support is a broad category of protective factors that deal with ...
HIV-infected African parents living in Stockholm, Sweden: disclosure and planning for their children's future.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... About two-thirds of people with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa (that is, about 25 million) (UNAIDS, 2006). African men and women who are unknowingly infected with HIV when they immigrate to Europe usually have an HIV test and receive their HIV diagnosis soon after their arrival, adding an ...
Illness of the mind or illness of the spirit? Mental health-related conceptualization and practices of older Iranian immigrants.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... According to the surgeon general's report, there is a recognizable health disparity among immigrant populations in the United States (Satcher, 1999). Nerad and Janczur (2000) reported the following: "Because resettling in a foreign country is a significant source of stress, immigrants are ...
Understanding rape survivors' decisions not to seek help from formal social systems.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Rape is a pervasive social problem, as national epidemiological data suggest that at least 17 percent of women will be raped in their adult lifetime (Bachar & Koss, 2001). In addition, rape has been linked to multiple negative short- and long-term outcomes, such as psychological distress, ...
The influence of religiosity on depression among low-income people with diabetes.(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Diabetes is a chronic and progressive disease affecting millions of people of all ages throughout the United States. Because of an increase in obesity, growing rates of inactivity, and a decline in the relative risk of death among people with diabetes, the incidence of diabetes is ...
Eradicating perinatal HIV transmission is possible: a model for social work practitioners.(PRACTICE FORUM)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... Since 1994, medical research has shown that zidovudine, given to HIV-seropositive women during pregnancy and their newborns, reduced the risk of perinatal HIV transmission (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2007; Connor et al., 1994). Over the past decade, the number of ...
Posttraumatic stress disorder: a treatable public health problem.(VIEWPOINT)
May 01, 2009; ... Clinical social workers need to be aware of the growing problem of untreated and undertreated trauma in society. This is an especially important issue affecting our veteran population. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects 6.8 ...
Mounting a social work response to the worsening HIV epidemic in black communities.(NATIONAL HEALTH LINE)(Report)
May 01, 2009; ... In 2005, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported that African Americans accounted for 51 percent (80,187) of people diagnosed with HIV/AIDS and African American men with HIV/AIDS represented 44 percent of all cases among men (CDC, 2005a). These statistics have been ...
'Long time coming': are we on the brink of universal health care coverage?(Editorial)
Feb 01, 2009; ... The financial meltdown and bailout of September-October 2008 have shocked everyone. The headlines tell it all: "Wall Street, R. I. P. (Creswell & White, 2008), "Retirement accounts have lost $2 trillion so far" (J. H. Davis, 2008), "Greenspan's free-market faith shaken" (Irwin & Paley, ...
From hospital to nursing facility: factors influencing decisions.(Report)
Feb 01, 2009; ... This is a report on a social worker-initiated project with two distinct purposes: (1) to help social workers answer important questions about their practice, specifically, how a computerized data system would assist in identifying high-risk patients for discharge planning, and (2) to ...
Education: a complex and empowering social work intervention at the end of life.(Report)
Feb 01, 2009; ... As in most practice environments, social workers in health care settings often assume the responsibility of providing information to patients and family members. This is particularly important when patients and their families are coping with the prospects of a life-threatening diagnosis ...
The influence of community-based services on the burden of spouses caring for their partners with dementia.(Report)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Caring for a spouse with dementia in the community is fraught with emotion. First and foremost, spousal caregivers are grieving the loss of their partners, as a result of a long and devastating illness. Although the person with dementia is physically alive, his or her psychological ...
Roles, responsibilities, and relationships among older husbands caring for wives with progressive dementia and other chronic conditions.(Report)
Feb 01, 2009; ... The demand for familial caregivers is growing. Although the current profile of a family caregiver is still an educated, middle-aged female, typically a daughter (National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP, 2004), demographic trends suggest that more men, specifically husbands and sons, will ...
The changing face of opioid addiction: prescription pain pill dependence and treatment.(PRACTICE FORUM)(Report)
Feb 01, 2009; ... In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the abuse of and dependency on prescription opioid pain medications (also known as narcotics). Viewed as safer than street drugs like heroin, prescription pain pill misuse is on the increase in all age ranges. Frequently abused ...
Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003: implications for the future of health care.(VIEWPOINT)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Upon enactment, the prescription drug component of the Medical Prescription, Drug Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 (MMA) (P.L. 108-173) garnered national attention; however, other major and less obvious stipulations could have future ramifications on the structure of Medicare. ...
Lessons from Joan: Living and Loving with Cancer, a Husband's Story.(Brief article)(Book review)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lessons from Joan: Living and Loving with Cancer, a Husband's Story. Eric R. Kingson. New York: Syracuse University Press, 2005, 209 pages. ISBN 0-8156-0838-1 $19.95 paperback. There is a language of cancer, a group of terms and titles that become second tongue to those who have ...
Building capacity for evidence we can believe in: the argument for social change as an evidence-based practice agenda.(NATIONAL HEALTH LINE)(Report)(Essay)
Feb 01, 2009; ... Despite medical and behavioral advancements in HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention, not all groups, here in the United States and globally, experience the advantages of scientific discoveries. In a climate that scrutinizes the use of limited resources and emphasizes increased ...
Health care reform: postelection possibilities.(Editorial)
Nov 01, 2008; ... Previously we examined the health care system reform proposals of the major candidates in the 2008 Presidential Primaries (Flint & Gorin, 2008). Whatever the outcome of the 2008 election, pressure for reform is not likely to dissipate. In this article we assess the current climate for and ...