I n terms of access to health care, workers who earn low wages are among the most vulnerable members of the American labor force. Of the 31 million workers in the United States who either work for businesses that do not offer health insurance or are not eligible for the company health plan, more than half earn less than $10 an hour. Although employees of small companies are particularly unlikel...

T he Commonwealth Fund 2001 International Health Policy Survey shows significant differences in the health care experiences of adults in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States.While each country excels in its performance on certain dimensions of health care— no one country is uniformly “the best”—several distinct health system patterns emerged upon close analy...

Anisotropy and Transport Properties of Tubular C-BN Janus Nanostructures M. M. Wu, X. Zhong, Q. Wang, Q. Sun,* R. Pandey, and P. Jena Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China Department of Physics, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia 23284, United States Department of Physics, Michigan Technological Universit...

Australia does not have uniform defamation law. Each of the eight states and territories has its own law,2 despite decades of reform efforts.3 But, after statements by the Commonwealth Attorney-General late in 2003,4 national defamation reform again appears possible. The matter is before the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General, and the federal government appears willing to act if states and...

A comparison of features and categorical cues to improve naming abilities in aphasia Naomi Hashimoto a , Brooke Widman b , Swathi Kiran b & Meredith A. Richards a a Communicative Disorders , University of Wisconsin-River Falls , WEB 222, 410 South Third Street, River Falls , WI , 54022 , United States b Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences , Sargent College, Boston University , 635 Commonweal...

Segregation was the central issue facing the civil rights challenges and achievements of the 1950s and 1960s—specifically, the Brown vs. Board of Education decision, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the implementation of the Medicare program. However, current efforts to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care treatment fail to address the effect of segregation on disparities. By...