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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Right to health care"”.
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Realizing the Right to Health Care in Canada
… and domestic laws increasingly recognize health rights; international law clearly recognizes a right to health that includes health care entitlements and approximately 69% of domestic constitutions include a right to health care. Recognition of a positive right to health care has been …
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Cracks in the System: The Gap between the Emergency Department and Primary Care
… of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) in 2010 expanded health insurance coverage for millions of Americans, but many still lack access to appropriate and timely health care. Federal law grants Americans a legal right to obtain stabilizing treatment for emergency medical …
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The Wrath of Ignorance: Schizophrenic Policies in Access to Health Care for Undocumented Latinas
This study focuses on the problems of health care access experienced by undocumented Latinas: women from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean. Those who are undocumented may encounter significantly reduced access to health care, for the risk of discovery causes them to be more …
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Individual responsibility, justice and access to health care
The aim of this thesis is to examine whether it is morally defensible to use lifestyle as one of the criteria for rationing health care. I argue that it is not justifiable to use former lifestyle to select patients for treatment. Chapter one outlines the principles of the NHS and discusses the …
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Essays in Public and Behavioral Economics
… and the welfare impact of policy interventions to address them. Court evictions from rental housing are common but could be avoided if landlords and tenants bargained instead. Such evictions are inefficient if they are costlier than bargaining. We test for two potential causes of inefficient …