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Public Transportation: Perceptions Of Filth Contributing To Poor Health, Dashka Bernard
Public Transportation: Perceptions Of Filth Contributing To Poor Health, Dashka Bernard
Annual Undergraduate Conference on Health and Society
Public transportation vehicles such as trains or buses have a reputation as unsanitary. Many riders of public transit are concerned with the health risks they are facing in regards to contagion. Perceptions of cleanliness derive from public health historically, with class, morality, and good health tied together in the American public’s attitudes. Certainly, infectious disease and sanitation are directly correlated in many instances, such as in the highly overcrowded and dirty cities in the early twentieth-century United States. Those living in filthy conditions (particularly, lower class individuals) were not only prone to becoming ill, but also considered to be immoral …
State Medicaid Programs: A Trifocal Examination Of The Controversy Surrounding Expansion, Meredith Daly
State Medicaid Programs: A Trifocal Examination Of The Controversy Surrounding Expansion, Meredith Daly
Annual Undergraduate Conference on Health and Society
The conversation regarding Medicaid expansion is ever-changing as states grapple with whether to expand their existing programs. Through this now-optional piece of legislation, state governments can choose to extend healthcare coverage via the federal government to millions of previously uninsured citizens. In order to understand and form an opinion on the controversy over expanding Medicaid programs, the issue demands to be looked at through three varying lenses. The first and most important lens is social. Several studies are examined to show that with expansion, there is a high correlation with better health outcomes; without it there is a care gap …