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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.

    November 3, 2021
  • 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.

    November 3, 2021
  • The Case of Jack: What are the Limits of a Community’s Right to Know?

    Scrutinizing the Individual:
    What are the limits of a community’s right to know?

    November 2, 2021
  • 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?

    October 31, 2021
  • 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.

    October 28, 2021
  • 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.

    October 26, 2021
  • 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.

    October 26, 2021
  • 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.”

    October 26, 2021
  • 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.

    October 26, 2021
  • 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.

    October 26, 2021
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