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1. A Property Right to Medical Care, Danya Bowen Matthew and Mark Earnest (2008)

   (The following summary is excerpted from the article's abstract): This article asserts that all Americans have a property right to receive medical care, created by the massive public investment in medical training, research, infrastructure, financing ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 6/1/2016 1:06pm

2. Women’s Empowerment and Gender Equity: Essential Goals for Saving Women’s Lives, World Health Organization (2008)

   This fact sheet provides brief arguments making the link between women's empowerment and positive health outcomes for women and newborns. It identifies specific legal, policy, and sociocultural changes that increase gender equality and how each of th ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 6/1/2016 12:52pm

3. Ryan White Legal Services in Palm Beach County: An Overview, David J. Begley, Legal Aid Society of Palm Beach County (2008)

   This document provides an overview of Ryan White CARE Act funded legal services in Palm Beach County, Florida, and discusses the important linkage between legal services and medical care for people living with HIV. By helping people with HIV maintain thei ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/18/2017 10:31am

4. MedLaw Project: Legal Aid Program Improves Health Outcomes for Children, Families Through Medical-Legal Partnership with University, Anna Lisa Biason, 30 Cornerstone 12 (2008)

   This article highlights the connection between access to legal services and improved health outcomes, and the benefits of collaborations between the medical and legal communities in order to meet the full range of individuals' health care needs. It p ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/18/2017 10:32am

5. Unequal Health Outcomes in the United States: A Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, National Health Law Program (2008)

   This report provides an in-depth analysis of the overwhelming racial disparities in health care access and treatment in the United States, and approaches the problem as a human right violation. The report describes the massive health care disparities in g ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 6/30/2020 3:16pm

6. Access to Health Care Services for Low-Income New Yorkers, Training/Report, The Legal Aid Society (2008)

   This document focuses on access to health insurance and health care services for low-income New Yorkers. It includes a discussion of government-sponsored health insurance programs, options for obtaining health care services for individuals who are uninsur ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 10/18/2017 11:27am

7. Chronic Indifference: HIV/AIDS Services for Immigrants Detained by the United States, Human Rights Watch (2008)

   This report describes the failure of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide basic health care services to HIV-positive immigrants living in detention facilities. Due to the passage ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 5/28/2020 5:05pm

8. healthinsuranceinfo.net

   This web site, maintained by the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute, offers a series of state-by-state consumer guides to obtaining and maintaining health insurance. Each guide provides readers with state-specific information related to group a ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm

9. The Health Care Experiences of Women with HIV/AIDS: Insights from a Focus Group (October 2003), Henry Kaiser Family Foundation

   The Kaiser Family Foundation commissioned a racially diverse group study of lower-income women with HIV/AIDS in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami and Savannah to hear directly from them about their lives and the challenges they face in obtaining a full-ran ...

   Anonymous (not verified) - 5/8/2013 1:46pm