Valuing Families and Meeting Them Where They Are
| Autor: | Sherry Hirota, Jane Garcia, Deborah Zahn, Marguerite J. Ro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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Value (ethics)
Dominant culture Social Values Organizations Nonprofit media_common.quotation_subject Pilot Projects California Community Health Planning Insurance Coverage Health care Humans Sociology Family values media_common Family Health Medically Uninsured Local Government business.industry Managed Care Programs Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Emigration and Immigration Public relations Organizational Innovation United States Editorial Law Rhetoric business Health Care Systems: Editorial |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Public Health. 93:1797-1799 |
| ISSN: | 1541-0048 0090-0036 |
| DOI: | 10.2105/ajph.93.11.1797 |
| Popis: | The United States is a land of contradictions. The dominant culture holds the individual to be primary and at the same time claims to place the greatest value on the family. Despite the rhetoric of “family values,” our nation’s programs and policies—which typically are based on discrete categories of individuals—often fall short of providing the support needed to truly value families. By fragmenting families into mere groupings of individuals, programs and policies often fail to provide the support families need not just to survive but to thrive. Our emphasis on this fragmentation often ties the hands of agencies that want to provide services outside limited categories or creates a labyrinth of services far too complex for most families to navigate successfully. This is certainly true in health care. Through a series of innovations in Alameda County, California, we have taken and continue to take advantage of every opportunity to align our family-centered values with our programs and policies. In Alameda County alone, there are an estimated 162000 people without health coverage. Of these, 15000 are children. More than half of the uninsured adults are immigrants.1,2 Our programmatic and policy efforts are designed to be responsive to all families and family members in our diverse communities in Alameda County. We have sought to create a broad range of support for families, and we have moved our county forward in creating seamless systems that put families and their multiple needs at the center of our efforts. |
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