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Health Care For The Poor In Omaha-Douglas County: Problems And Policy Options, Jeff Luke, David R. Dimartino, Vincent J. Webb, Jan Clifford
Health Care For The Poor In Omaha-Douglas County: Problems And Policy Options, Jeff Luke, David R. Dimartino, Vincent J. Webb, Jan Clifford
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The health-care system in Omaha-Douglas County is on the verge of dramatic changes because of federal cutbacks, expanding cost-containment efforts, and an increasingly competitive medical market. As a result, problems are now arising because of increasing difficulties in providing health care to the poor.
Toward The Development Of An Information Service On Poverty Problems For Community Agencies And Groups In The Omaha Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area, Robert Simpson
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This study can be viewed as a problem in applied social science. Ho\v can the resources of the University, in this case the Center for Urban Affairs of the University of Nebraska at Omaha, be mobilized to provide a social intelligence function for agencies and citizens groups working on community problems in the Omaha SMSA.
More specifically the objective is to expand and utilize the poverty-related content of the Center for Urban Affairs data bank in such manner as to aid local agencies and groups who are working on poverty-related problems. The assistance is to take the form of reports …
Perceptions Of Poverty Families About The Incidence And Effect And Redress Of Poverty In Omaha, Harry W. Reynolds
Perceptions Of Poverty Families About The Incidence And Effect And Redress Of Poverty In Omaha, Harry W. Reynolds
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Between March and May, 1965, 1112 families residing in nineteen census tracts in the City of Omaha were interviewed through the facilities of the Urban Studies Center of the Municipal University of Omaha with respect to various characteristics of their income, composition, and opinion as these items related to understanding the status of the econornica1ly underprivileged in their neighborhoods. The purpose of these interviews was to facilitate preparation of a community action program in Omaha capable of attacking some of the root causes of poverty and improving the conditions, present and future, of those families who were its victims. Quite …