Benevolent Institutions. 1910

Benevolent Institutions. 1910

Author: United States. Bureau of the Census

Publisher:

Published: 1911

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13:

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One of a series of reports on institutions for the relief and care of the dependent and delinquent classes. This report includes homes of various types for adults or children, organizations for the protection and care of children, and institutions for the sick or disabled and for the blind and deaf. It emphasizes the type of institution, giving in each case its location and describing its purpose, the class of inmates received, and its financial status. -- p. 11.


Benevolent Institutions

Benevolent Institutions

Author: United States. Bureau of the Census

Publisher:

Published: 1913

Total Pages: 411

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One of a series of reports on institutions for the relief and care of the dependent and delinquent classes. This report includes homes of various types for adults or children, organizations for the protection and care of children, and institutions for the sick or disabled and for the blind and deaf. It emphasizes the type of institution, giving in each case its location and describing its purpose, the class of inmates received, and its financial status. -- p. 11


Second Home

Second Home

Author: Timothy A. Hacsi

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780674796447

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As Timothy Hacsi shows, most children in nineteenth-century orphan asylums were "half-orphans," children with one living parent who was unable to provide for them. The asylums spread widely and endured because different groups - churches, ethnic communities, charitable organizations, fraternal societies, and local and state governments - could adapt them to their own purposes. In the 1890s, critics began to argue that asylums were overcrowded and impersonal. By 1909, advocates called for aid to destitute mothers, and argued that asylums should be a last resort, for short-term care only. Yet orphanages continued to care for most dependent children until the Depression strained asylum budgets and federally funded home care became more widely available. Yet some, Catholic asylums in particular, cared for poor children into the 1950s and 1960s.


The Public-private Health Care State

The Public-private Health Care State

Author: Rosemary A. Stevens

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-07-28

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 1351475800

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The distinctive mixing and continuous remixing of public and private roles is a defining feature of health care in the United States. The Public-Private Health Care State explores the interweaving of public and private enterprise in health care in the United States as a basis for thinking about health care in terms of its history and its continuing evolution today. Historian and policy analyst Rosemary Stevens has selected and edited seventeen essays from both her published and unpublished work to illustrate continuing themes, such as: the flexible meanings of the terms public and private, and how useful their ambiguity has been and is; the role of ideology as ratifying rather than preordaining change; and the common behavior of public leaders and corporate entities in the face of fiscal opportunity. The topics--covering the period of 1870 through the twenty-first century--represent Stevens' research interests in hospital history and policy, the medical profession, government policy, and paying for health care. The volume also considers her involvement with policy questions, which include health services research, health maintenance organizations, and physician workforce policy. Section I demonstrates the long history of state government involvement with private not-for-profit hospitals from the 1870s through the 1930s. Section II examines the federal role in health care from the 1920s through the 1970s, including the establishment of veterans' hospitals and the implementation of Medicaid. Section III shows how shifting governmental roles require constantly changing organizing rhetoric, whether for inventing a federal role for health services research and HMOs, regionalization in the 1970s, or defining civil rights and equity as mobilizing vehicles in the 1980s. Section IV examines growing concerns from the 1970s through the present about the traditional public role of the largely private medical profession. Section V returns to the ambiguous public-priv