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The social health of the nation : how America is really doing
For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social Health has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national media our most reliable barometer of progress in addressing America’s social ills. Now, in The Social Health of the Nation, the Index for 1999—an invaluable fount of information—is available for the first time in book form. Rejecting the notion that the Dow Jones Industrial Averages and its ilk are the sole valid measures of progress in the United States, the authors offer a fuller and deeper view of our nation’s quality of life, gathering together statistical information on such factors as the well-being of America’s children and youth, the accessibility of health care, the quality of education, or the adequacy of housing. Readers will find solid information about drug abuse, children in poverty, life expectancy, homicides, and health insurance coverage. And we get these facts in context, so that we know where we are improving—for instance, poverty among the elderly, infant mortality, and the high school dropout rate have all declined. Equally important, we discover where we are losing ground—suicide rates among the young are 40 percent higher than in 1970, for example, and income inequality is at its worst level in 50 years. Here then is the key to the true State of the Union. The first national survey in the U.S. to bring together varied aspects of social health, including education, work, family, medical care, American culture, and the arts, The Social Health of the Nation gives us a more finely focused picture of the national fabric—and reveals where that fabric needs mending.
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When women won the vote : the final decade, 1910-1920
\"When Women Won The Vote focuses on the final decade of American women's fight for the vote that culminated in the 19th Amendment in 1920, a compelling chapter in US women's history and American democracy. This book is essential reading for students of American Political or Women's History, Gender Studies, or Progressivism\"-- Provided by publisher.
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THE SPACES PEOPLE SHARE
In a corner on the second floor of the Museum of African American History in Richmond, Virginia, stands a bright-red lunch counter, an exhibit installed to commemorate Richmond’s first civil rights sit-in, which occurred in 1961. The exhibit celebrates the era when African Americans won the legal right to make equal use of the public spaces in their communities. Yet, seen from today’s perspective, it carries another message as well. Where is the five-and-dime store where the lunch counter used to stand? It is closed, as are all five of the other major downtown stores where the sit-ins took place.
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Private choices, public obligations: New York City and its hospitals since 1900
Urban hospitals are sensitive barometers of community life; indeed, they are stages upon which are played out most of the political, demographic, social, and economic changes that shape a city's experience. Urban hospitals also provide an illuminating way of looking at the interplay between public and private sectors in American life. This dissertation focuses on the experience of two great hospitals in New York City--Bellevue, a municipal institution, and the private New York Hospital (NYH). Three themes shape the account: (1) the impact of the city's history on these two hospitals; (2) the changing nature of large urban hospitals; (3) the growing gulf between New York's public and private hospitals. The study begins around 1900--as the transition to \"scientific medicine\" was starting to take hold--and ends in 1995. In 1900, NYH and Bellevue shared a single primary mission: providing free care to the poor. Over time, however, the two institutions' patient populations diverged. NYH, like other voluntary hospitals, concentrated on patients who either could pay for their treatment or were useful for research and teaching. During these years, the circle of paying patients expanded, as new funding mechanisms like hospital insurance and Medicare enabled most middle- and even working-class New Yorkers to purchase care in the private sector. This left public institutions like Bellevue to serve a disproportionate share of the city's homeless, minority, and fundless patients. Public funding came to play a major role in NYH's financing, yet NYH retained most of the advantages of private ownership, diverging sharply from Bellevue in its physical plant, its level of public accountability, and in its relationships with its affiliated medical school, its employees, and its neighborhood. The two institutions were also affected differently by changes in the city's demography, politics, and economy. By the 1990s, Bellevue and NYH were both famous institutions, but the gulf between them illuminated the inequalities within the city's network of hospitals--and, in a larger sense, within the city itself. How New York's network of hospitals developed and how it was shaped by the surrounding city represents a compelling chapter in medical history, in urban history, and in America's continuing exploration of how best to divide the work of our society between public and private sponsorship.
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