Creating Health Connections for Vulnerable Working Populations

Health Insurance and Vulnerable Populations

Our charge is to consider the causes of lack of insurance coverage for vulnerable populations. This is a daunting task for many reasons-not least because there are as many kinds of vulnerability as there are bad things that happen to human bodies or to human life. Although the term " vulnerable population " conjures images of a discrete and insular minority, every person's vulnerability to illn...

Vulnerable populations and health insurance.

This study provided a national profile of health insurance of certain vulnerable populations including children, racial/ethnic minorities, low-income families, non-metropolitan statistical area (MSA) residents, and those with poor health status. The study shows an increase in the proportion of uninsured nonelderly population. While public insurance helped reduce the employment- and health-relat...

Vulnerable Populations: Vulnerable People

Caring for vulnerable populations.

Acknowledgments The AHA Committee on Research would like to thank the following contributors who provided significant input in the committee's work:commercial use only. No part of this publication may be reproduced and distributed in any form without permission of the publisher, or in the case of third party materials, the owner of that content, except in the case of brief quotations followed b...

Economic Research Initiative on the Uninsured Working Paper Series HEALTH INSURANCE AND VULNERABLE POPULATIONS

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