The Care of the Uninsured in America

Nancy J. Johnson is Chief Operating Officer at El Rio Community Health Center in Tuscon, Arizona. She is also President of Quality Health Consultants, a healthcare consultancy. Lane P. Johnson is Director of the MD/MPH program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He is the author of the Clinical Pocket Guide to Herbal Remedies (Blackwell, 2002).

Who Are the Uninsured?.- Why Are People Uninsured?.- The Culture of Poverty and the Uninsured.- Health Disparities and the Uninsured.- Providers of Care for the Uninsured.- Chronic Disease and the Uninsured.- Medical Homes ( preferably “Health Home”) and the Uninsured.- Medication Assistance for the Uninsured.- Medically Uninsured Refugees and Immigrants.- Medically Uninsured and the Homeless.- Care of Underserved People with Mental Illness.- Medically Uninsured Older Americans.- Direct Caregivers Association: An Option for a Rapidly Growing Aging Population?.- The Rural Uninsured.- Dental Care for the Uninsured.- Uninsured Children at School.- Building Community Collaborations Around Care for the Uninsured.- Information Technology and Medically Uninsured.- The Role of Government in Providing Health Care to the Uninsured.- Think Nationally, Act Locally.

From the reviews:

“This book addresses the growing problem of the uninsured from the perspective of the root causes and discusses strategies for providing care. … the book would be useful to graduate health professional students or those studying health policy. … this book presents case scenarios and more personal accounts of the problem in a more academic way, lending itself to use in the classroom.” (Carole Ann Kenner, Doody’s Review Service, March, 2010)

“Nancy Johnson … have edited a new textbook about the care of the uninsured. The Care of the Uninsured in America is long on statistics and chock full of programmatic examples, including reproduced diagrams, charts, surveys, and copies of flyers. The Johnsons recruited colleagues … to supply the 20 essays that comprise the chapters of this book, which is aimed at policy makers and undergraduate and graduate classrooms of schools of public and community health. … The chapters contain thorough references … .” (Jeff Levin-Scherz, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 303 (23), 2010)