Now, despite the fact that Canada has universal health care coverage (under which most homeless people are also insured,) this population experiences many barriers to accessing health care services. ... This is both ineffective in addressing the long-term health issues of homeless individuals, and costly to the health care system. ... The argument stands that the current health care system in place does not effectively address the health care needs of the homeless population (Currie, Greaves, Golden, & Latimer, 1999, p. 103). ... This presents a serious challenge to a health care system that ...

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(Cannan, 2013) The law was designed to put consumers back in control of their health care. ... When an individual loses their job, they often lose their health care benefits. ... The Health care reform has provided an opportunity for many states to reevaluate their Medicaid programs. ... These changes have provided the health care providers with an increase ability to meet the needs of the homeless population. ... The Health Care for the Homeless (HCH) was designed to provide primary health care to the homeless. ...

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As a result child abuse, child neglect, poor health care and poor education continue to rising areas of concern in these American communities. ... An example of a health and human service worker being an advocate for the social justice in relation the poverty stricken children could relate to an issue of health care needs within a poor family. ... The health care worker must somehow provide for the clientele while maintaining the overall for-profit purpose of the organization. ... This course helped me to realize the ways that social policy and government regulations impact health care an...

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They play a major role in guiding the political and legal system on the effect such legalized problems might have in the health care system, society and the government at large. ... These impedes can contribute to behavioral, social and emotional problems which can cause and exacerbate poor child health, ("Tackling child poverty", 2010). ... Children need proper care to thrive and grow into healthy and productive adults by providing high-quality health, adequate housing, early learning programs and enriching activities to face the chronic poverty level in the society, (Hof Wallace, n.d.). In...

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It is always the poorest women that don't get the care that the need. ... Women living in poverty don't get the necessary preventative care that would prevent many diseases that can be avoided. ... There is essentially a chain effect of different things as to why women don't receive the proper medical care. ... They are unable to put money into education, jobs, basic needs or proper health care including preventative care. ... Birth rates are used as well as death rates, livelihood and health. ...

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(Blau, 16) In late 1986, legislation containing Title I of the Homeless Persons' Survival Act, emergency relief provisions for food, shelter, mobilized health care, and transitional housing, was introduced as the Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act. ... The services included job training, education, emergency shelter, transitional housing, primary health care, and a limited amount of permanent housing.. The McKinney Act has been amended numerous times, with the 1990 amendments including the Shelter Plus Care program, which provided housing assistance to the homeless with disabiliti...

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Contributing factors include: family problems, throwaways, homeless families, residential instability, foster care and other residential programs, institutional contact, and socioeconomic pressures. ... A homeless youth can be defined as on "who is in the need of services and is without a place of shelter where supervision and care are unavailable" (Caton p. 21-22). These definitions imply that a runaway child has somewhere to go where he or she would be cared for, and that a homeless child does not have this luxury. ... Studies report that many respondents have extensive histories of conta...

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Poverty and health are definitely linked and not only are the poor more likely to suffer from ill health and premature death, but poor health and disability are themselves recognised as causes of poverty. ... Low birth weight in babies is associated with social class and thought to be associated with parental poverty and poor maternal environment rather than the quality of medical care. ... By looking at poor health from a social class perspective we can see there is a link between poverty and health. ... The link between poverty and ill health is clear. ... Inequalities in health evolve becau...

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Many of the residents have social workers or carers provided by social services who are individually known to the person concerned and that person knows the complete details of their lives. ... Illegible writing on behalf of the social worker or carer could be of great importance as there are son many individuals covered by e-government that a single re-wording could mean another part of the agency not getting involved and the client not receiving the care or treatment that they require. ... The hospital would need to know whether a resident has been moved to an extra care complex or into re...

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Whether people who exit or are terminated from welfare have jobs, whether those jobs enable them to afford housing, whether they have quality child care, whether they are homeless or hungry - these factors do not appear to be important measures to the President or Congress alike. (8) The largest cash assistance program for poor families with children was the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) until its repeal in August of 1996. ... Policies that produce affordable housing by employing homeless people are among the necessary policies that strengthen the economy while also helping to...

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Many of researchers say that there are three major effects on poor people that are lack of education, health problem, and indulgence in criminal lifestyle. ... They do not care about increasing family and population; they think that one more baby will go to work and bring some money to home. ... In addition, health problem is also major issue in poor society because in poor society keep open dumpster and do latrine in open place like in India some people do on railway track and near to track, because they do not have proper facilities of restroom. ... Criminals are fearless, shameless and car...

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The OECD suggests that investing in human capital is the policy maker's best option as they can provide freely accessible and high-quality public services, such as education, health and family care. There are people in society who cannot focus on education and health because they only earn enough to cover their basic needs. Through this suggestion, they can not only cover their basic needs but focus on important things such as education to be applicable for better jobs and contribute to the society which fits in my view as it is stated in the liberalism ideology "social entitlements ...

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The economy feels the drain as a result of many varied reasons; waste of talent due to lack of education which creates problems for businesses that require a skilled workforce, financial loss occurring as a result of individuals on benefits created through a lack of training to improve skills, stress and mental health issues may arise due to isolation, health problems may occur from lack of stable diet and lack of facilities for physical health, it may also boost rates of smoking, alcohol and drug abuse. ... This arises through a lack of communication between departments i.e. if a youth is sti...

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Because of the drastic rates of poverty, malnutrition, access to clean drinking water and lack of basic health care services among the Malagasy people 84 children out of every thousand will die before reaching the age of five. With over 80 percent of Madagascar's inhabitants living in rural areas, majority of those people suffer to have little to no access of basic transportation, education or any type of health care. ... All of these factors contribute to the overall decline of health across the country. ...

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The goal was to continue on from the Bolsa Famlia programme, an aid program already in action, by increasing access to essential services, including utilities, education, health care and housing (EW). In 2012, Rousseff added another welfare program the Brasil Carinhoso (Caring Brazil) programme, which helped low-income families with young children by providing them with a state subsidy of R $70 per month in addition to existing benefits under the Bolsa Famlia initiative (EW). ...

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According to federal guidelines, benefits may be disbursed in one of the following ways, or in a combination of any of the following: cash benefits, food stamps, medical assistance, job training, day-care assistance, transportation assistance and/or housing assistance (housing allowance is provided only once in a lifetime). ... The other 50% (fifty percent) is used for job training and placement, education and day-care assistance for women (or men) who return to work" (Finsterbusch 229). ... Department of Health and Human Services, a family of three making less than $15,260.00 in one year is ...

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According to the World Health Organization, acute malnutrition is defined by a very low weight for height (below -3z scores of the median WHO growth standards), by visible severe wasting, or by the presence of nutritional edema. ... The mortality rate from malnutrition is also impacted by a lack of access, particularly for poor households, to health care services. This is especially true in rural communities where health services are extremely limited. There is also a need for more community education about health-related issues, such as sanitation practices and birth control methods As for ...

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Social Inequality and Social Stratification In our everyday life, socialists said and used the terms Social Inequality and Social Stratification a lot. These phenomenons are something related to the society itself. Both of them are multifaceted phenomenon, which means including intangible like ma...

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The legal system also recognises the SED in relation to health Care. Medicare, is the Australian public health care system; providing free treatment in public hospitals and paying fees of doctors up to the level of the government recommended fee. SED people are often issued a Health Care Card, which entitles them to more free treatment, transport concessions and also rebates. ... Other issues for people receiving social security payments are that they have low self-esteem, they often have poor health due to lack of income and social participation, they will often have poor housing, they are ex...

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Though the WIC program is a national program of supplements for women, infants, and children, Michelle Tooley said that it has been proven that spending one dollar towards WIC lowers the amount of money that is paid in health care, so this would help the problem not only in the state but in the nation as a whole. ... In this case, what we could do differently is allocate more money towards funding these types of programs instead of allocating it towards health care; however, I'm not sure if it works like this at the state or only the federal. ...

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The children of those families suffer from low health and hygiene, they are usually neglected due to large number of siblings, and also, they start working when they are really young to support their families. Lack of proper care and protection of the children makes them prone to all kinds of diseases, socially unacceptable behaviour, developing addiction for harmful products and in worst scenario, dying totally unavoidable deaths at a very young age. ... Like there is lack of health facilities, unemployment allowance, social amenities by the government, good public education services, and alm...

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Some other symptoms of sex trafficking can include unwanted pregnancies, fertility problems, multiple STDs, forced abortions, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, starvation, memory loss, paranoia, self-care issues, and dissociative disorders (Kilpatrick). ... Instead of spending billions of dollars on national security abroad, the money should be focused towards improving the economy, funding shelters, providing financial aid, free health care, and on the citizens of the United States that really need it the most. ... Health clinics, hospital personnel, se...

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Hispanics that work minimum paying jobs are endangered when they have children because they are responsible for financially taking care of another life. ... Patlan became discouraged and stopped caring about his grades and school work. ... Another is a parent-partner program, which helps parents use government systems, including the county's Children and Youth Services, Juvenile Probation, and Mental Health/Mental Retardation services. ...

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Focusing on the health problems alone is enough to persuade people of its effects. Among the health problems commonly encountered by the homeless are things like cold injury and cardio respiratory disease from not having the proper protection from the cold. ... The homeless also suffer from nutritional deficiencies because of poor nutrition and lack of care, also resulting in dental problems and malnourishment. ... The health problems of children and youths are another effect of homelessness. ...

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How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems How Overpopulation Causes Social Problems Introduction The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how overpopulation causes social problems. To do so you must take many things into consideration, such as different views of racial problems and conflicting definitions of a social problem. Social problems can be defined in many different ways. They effect everyone and some of us encounter problems everyday as a result of our race, religion, gender, or low income. Others experience problems from technological change or declining neighborhoods, others a...

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