Community Health Care In Mississippi

Machine generated contents note: -- Foreword / by H. Jack GeigerIntroduction -- From South Africa to Mississippi -- Community Organizing -- Delivering Health Care -- Environmental Factors -- The Farm Co-op -- Conflict and Change -- Epilogue -- Bibliography

In this multidisciplinary book, the editor and contributors provide the most accurate and most recent information on health and health care in the State of Mississippi. They explain why the state finds itself in precarious health conditions and reveal the prevailing circumstances as the state debates a path toward a comprehensive health care system for its citizens. They show who has had access to good health care in the state and celebrate the heroes who struggled to provide health care to all Mississippians, and contribute to the debate on how the health care system might be restructured, reconstructed, or adjusted to meet the needs of all people in the state, regardless of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and national origin. The issue of health disparities and socio-economic status leads to a relevant discussion of whether health and access to quality care are a right of all people, as the United Nations has proclaimed, or the privilege of a few who have the economic resources and the political clout to purchase first-rate care. The volume offers a clear understanding of health care trends in the state since the inception of its health system during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries up to the present and the prospects of transcending the obstacles of its own creation over the past two centuries. It likewise highlights the economic challenges that Mississippi, like other states, confronts; and how wise and realistic its priorities are in meeting the needs of its diverse populations, particularly racial and ethnic minorities.

Preceded by Community health nursing / Karen Saucier Lundy, Sharyn Janes. 2nd ed. c2009.

"The objective of this report is twofold; to provide information that can be used by decision-makers to improve health status in the area and to provide a baseline for an evaluation of healthcare strategies implemented by NMHS. These objectives are achieved by providing a collection and presentation of data for the NMHS service region and adjacent counties that: (1) profile socioeconomic characteristics and (2) describe the health status. Health status refers to an individual's overall quality of physical, psychological, and social well-being. A thorough understanding of the health status of the general population is vital to developing intervention strategies that can prevent disease and trauma."--Introduction.