Category / Case Studies / Public and Population Health
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The Case of Teresa: Patient Vulnerability from a System’s Failure to Protect
A framework of general strategies to help vulnerable persons should explore responses that will help individual patients, improve professional and organizational responses to vulnerable patients, and mitigate the negative effects of public policies that affect vulnerable persons.
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The Case of Ophelia: Conflicting Values in the Placement of Violent Teenager with Mental Disability
Ophelia is fifteen years old, nearly six feet tall, and weighs 160 pounds. She has cognitive disabilities and has a history of violence against others. Ophelia’s mother was addicted to crack, and she abandoned Ophelia when the child was five years old.
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The Case of Jack: What are the Limits of a Community’s Right to Know?
Scrutinizing the Individual:
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Case Study – It’s Too Much – First My Daughter, and Now This
Fiona has custody of her two orphaned grandchildren and works as a housekeeper in a private home while the children are in school. Medical expenses are beyond Fiona’s budget. How can Fiona get – and pay for – healthcare?
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Deliberative Democracy
Advance Care Planning programs build on the Center for Practical Bioethics’ legacy work in end-of-life care, with emphasis on increasing participation by underserved communities.
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The Affordable Care Act Impact on US Hospitals
John Bluford, president and CEO of Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City, explains the mounting challenges U.S. hospitals face with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act.
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The Challenges of Caregiving
An estimated 120 million adult Americans (57 percent) are either providing unpaid care to an adult family member or friend or have provided this care in the past.
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The Courts and Medical Futility
Thaddeus Pope, director of the Health Law Institute and an Associate Professor of Law at Hamline University School of Law in Saint Paul, Minnesota, co-authored an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled “The Courts, Futility and the Ends of Medicine.”
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The Elderly and Public Transportation
By 2015, more than 15.5 million Americans are expected to live in communities where public transportation is poor or nonexistent.
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The Intersection of Neuroscience and National Security
The intersection of neuroscience and national security is an intriguing place filled with excitement but also a need for caution.
