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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Indigent"”.
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UTMB's History of Care for the Indigent
… 6 percent annually; and federal support for indigent health care is eroding in the face of a war in the Middle East. With the 2008 race for the presidency of the United States in full swing, however, candidates increasingly are focusing on providing some kind of health care coverage for the …
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Development of a pain management policy in and indigent clinic in Galveston, TX
… clinic, a student and nurse practitioner-run indigent primary care clinic in Galveston, Texas, practitioners have historically avoided prescribing opioids for pain management. It was at their request that a MPH student investigate the possible efficacy of a doctor-patient opioid contract in …
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Older indigent women’s economic crimes: Subsuming feminism in favour of a human rights explanation
… of gender inequalities affecting older indigent Australian women convicted of acquisitive crimes. This thesis argues that the term ‘feminism’, and feminist discourse and communications, ought to be abandoned in favour of advancing the human rights framework in the 21st century. Stigma …
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The Image of the Public Health Nurse as Seen by the Medically Indigent Prenatal Patient
… the public health nurse as seen by the medically indigent prenatal patient who has had a public health nursing visit in the home. With this knowledge, she could plan a more effective approach, provide better services, and be better prepared to meet the needs of the prenatal patient. This study was …
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The Experience Of Chronic Pain As Described By African American Indigent Adults Attending An Urban Primary Care Clinic
… highest risk for inadequate pain control include indigent adults and minorities. Newman's theory health as expanding consciousness views the chronic pain experience as a life pattern within health. Qualitatively examining chronic pain from participants' perspectives may improve chronic pain care. …
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Access to legal assistance for indigent accused person during the pre-trial stage: an analysis of the role of paralegals.
… in SA. In light of the vast disparities between indigent and affluent persons in South Africa, it may be understood why few people can afford legal representation and even less can access quality legal representation.The right to legal representation has been recognised in South African statutes …
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Illness Among the Aged: A Study of the Determinants of the Perception of Levels of Health in an Indigent, Urban Population
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Can e-governance aid young people in indigent communities gain access to higher education: Analysis from an action-research project in OR Tambo District
The central theme of this thesis is to establish the effectiveness and the role that ICTs have in improving the livelihood of people in rural areas. Its intent is to demonstrate how the use of ICTs, in particular via the e-government approach can help to alleviate unemployment and poverty by …
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"To Mississippi, Alone, Can They Look For Assistance:” Confederate Welfare In Mississippi
… The Civil War drastically increased county indigent levels due to the high service and casualty rates of Mississippi soldiers. This thesis explores how Mississippi provided for its soldiers and their families during and immediately after the war (1861-1868), through post-war pensions …
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An examination of legal representation on plea bargained sentencing outcomes for criminal defendants
… of attorney type and its impact on sentencing. Indigent defendants, unable to bear the financial burden of legal representation, are informed by a judge of the attorney appointed to represent them in criminal proceedings. Judges appoint attorneys because these defendants may lack the means to …
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A Profile of Diabetes-related Below Knee Amputations Using Nation-wide Patient Discharge Data: Patient, Provider, And Insurance Characteristics
… and multi-step Medicaid (p<.05), Commercial and Indigent/Self Pay/Other patients were most likely to be discharged home vs. other health care facilities (OHF) (averages of 64% and 81%, respectively) and single and multi-step Medicare patients were most likely and equally to be discharged to OHF …
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Essays on Matching With Endogenous Effort
… an education system, and a labor market. In an indigent defense program, the government provides counsel for indigent defendants. After the assignment of an attorney to a defendant, the attorney exerts a costly effort; however, the government only observes a noisy signal of the effort. We model …
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A novel trans-catheter heart valve system for low- to middle-income countries: need assessment, surgical feasibility and preclinical translation
… to a global health problem affecting millions of indigent patients outside the industrialized world. Rheumatic Heart Disease is typically a disease of poverty, leading to different levels of destruction of patients' heart valves in an estimated 33 million patients of low- to middle income …
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The New Orleans Female Orphan Society: Labor, Education, and Americanization, 1817-1833
… Female Orphan Society worked in providing aid to indigent mothers and their children through providing religious, vocational, and educational training. In a short time, the FOS emerged as the only private, Protestant female refuge for immigrant families and their children in New Orleans. This …
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Legal representation and a Bill of Rights
… with legal representation in the case of indigent accused. The importance of legal assistance for accused persons being tried in an adversarial justice system has been recognised in the Anglo-American legal systems. In an adversarial system the duty of a presiding officer is to act as an …
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Exploring the relationship between the water-energy-food nexus and livelihoods at the local scale: a case study focussed on a low-income residential area in Velddrif, South Africa
… of The Constitution, households that register as indigent are supported by the municipality in terms of receiving a minimum allocation of free basic water and electricity. The local municipality ensured their financial viability through imposing mechanisms to collect municipal rates debt before …
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The Social Exclusion of Homeless Menstruators within the Sanitary Dignity Framework and its Implementation
… is a policy that aims to preserve and maintain indigent girls' and women's dignity during menstruation. In South Africa, the term “sanitary dignity”, can be equated to what the rest of the world recognizes as menstrual hygiene management (MHM). Sanitary dignity or MHM is centred around the …
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Earth in Architecture: An Exploration of Malawian Vernacular and Healing
… later established to accommodate travelers, the indigent and the sick. Hospitals were constructed next to Religious institutions but also utilized house calls for the wealthy class. Monasteries were also organized in cloisters which were places of retreats from the mundane. The idea of hospitals …
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Dreams of Empire: The Japanese Agricultural Colonization of Manchuria (1931--1945) in History and Memory
… a ""New Paradise"" (Shintenchi) for the nation's indigent farming community. More importantly, this study focuses on the main agents of Japan's renewed imperial drive: the agricultural colonists themselves. The ""Great Men"" of Japanese imperial history such as Goto Shinpei and Ishiwara Kanji, …
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Georgia's Health Safety Net: A Model of Excellence: The Good Samaritan Health Center
… dependable, full-time healthcare for Atlanta’s indigent, working poor, uninsured, and homeless population. For the MPA Professional Exercise, I have spent over 300 hours working in the development and fundraising department of this organization. During my time at the organization, I have gained …
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