David Himmelstein
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 2154503 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Himmelstein |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Himmelstein |
| ASSINATURA | HIMMELSTEIN D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | All of the authors are with the Cambridge Health Alliance, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA. Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein are also with the City University of New York at Hunter College, New York. |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Health Care Disparities Across the Urban‐Rural Divide
PURPOSE: The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is high in rural America. Few studies, however, have examined urban/rural differences in health care access, or racial/ethnic and income disparities stratified by urban/rural residence, among persons with COPD. METHODS: We studied individuals age ≥ 40 years with COPD from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The primary exposure was "urban" or "rural" county of re…
Coverage Expansions and Utilization of Physician Care
Objectives. To evaluate the effects of the 2 major coverage expansions in US history—Medicare/Medicaid in 1966 and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014—on the utilization of physician care. Methods. Using the National Health Interview Survey (1963–1969; 2011–2016), we analyzed trends in utilization of physician services society-wide and by targeted subgroups. Results. Following Medicare/Medicaid’s implementation, society-wide utilization remaine…
Medicine and Empire
Howard Waitzkin, Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), 256 pages, $25, paperback.For the past three decades Howard Waitzkin has been (along with Vicente Navarro) the leading social medicine theorist in the United States. Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire provides a superb sampling of Waitzkin's wide-ranging work, and a readily accessible introduction to the searching insights offer…
Healthcare Reform 2.0
The 2010 national health reform law was written with heavy input from insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Unfortunately, the law will leave 24 million Americans uninsured and tens of millions more woefully underinsured, such that a major illness would bankrupt them. Other developed nations have used non-profit, single-payer national health insurance to fully cover all of their residents for all needed medical care. By failing to enact such…
Oakland MDs Voice Protest Over DOD Program
In reading our article, "Black At- trition in Physician Assistant Training Programs," (
Healthcare Reform 2.0
The 2010 national health reform law was written with heavy input from insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Unfortunately, the law will leave 24 million Americans uninsured and tens of millions more woefully underinsured, such that a major illness would bankrupt them. Other developed nations have used non-profit, single-payer national health insurance to fully cover all of their residents for all needed medical care. By failing to enact such…
Oakland MDs Voice Protest Over DOD Program
In reading our article, "Black At- trition in Physician Assistant Training Programs," (
Healthcare Reform 2.0
The 2010 national health reform law was written with heavy input from insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. Unfortunately, the law will leave 24 million Americans uninsured and tens of millions more woefully underinsured, such that a major illness would bankrupt them. Other developed nations have used non-profit, single-payer national health insurance to fully cover all of their residents for all needed medical care. By failing to enact such…
Medicine and Empire
Howard Waitzkin, Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2011), 256 pages, $25, paperback.For the past three decades Howard Waitzkin has been (along with Vicente Navarro) the leading social medicine theorist in the United States. Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire provides a superb sampling of Waitzkin's wide-ranging work, and a readily accessible introduction to the searching insights offer…
Coverage Expansions and Utilization of Physician Care
Objectives. To evaluate the effects of the 2 major coverage expansions in US history—Medicare/Medicaid in 1966 and the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2014—on the utilization of physician care. Methods. Using the National Health Interview Survey (1963–1969; 2011–2016), we analyzed trends in utilization of physician services society-wide and by targeted subgroups. Results. Following Medicare/Medicaid’s implementation, society-wide utilization remaine…
Health Care Disparities Across the Urban‐Rural Divide
PURPOSE: The burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is high in rural America. Few studies, however, have examined urban/rural differences in health care access, or racial/ethnic and income disparities stratified by urban/rural residence, among persons with COPD. METHODS: We studied individuals age ≥ 40 years with COPD from the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System. The primary exposure was "urban" or "rural" county of re…
Medicine (4 obras) · Political science (4 obras) · Gerontology (3 obras) · Health care (3 obras) · Primary Care and Health Outcomes (3 obras) · Public health (3 obras) · Demography (2 obras) · Economic growth (2 obras) · Environmental health (2 obras) · Gerontology (2 obras)