Health Work With the Poor
Subtitle: A  Health Worker's Primer on Serving Low-Income Clients
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: May 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780813527772
Subjects: Health systems & services; Poverty; Social welfare & social services; Poor; Medical / Nursing; Social Science; United States; Sociology; USA; Health Care Delivery; Social Work; Human Services; Health and hygiene; Medical care; Medical personnel and patient
First sentence: For at least a century, the word poor, referring to economic status, offers English speakers a double set of images and standards: On the one hand we have the deserving poor, people who simply do not have the freedom or ability to work.