During the 1930s and 1940s, the rising rate of chronic diseases was used to justify the
creation of national health insurance in the US (an effort that failed). In subsequent decades …

How the evolving concept of chronic disease has affected patients and politics in the United
States and Europe. Long and recurring illnesses have burdened sick people and their …

Although arguments continue about the causes of the epidemiological transition, historians
and physicians generally agree that chronic, non-communicable diseases replaced acute …

FOR the purpose of this presentation, I have identified a decalogue of gaps in health care, or
barriers to service. Some of these gaps or barriers are quantitative, some qualitative; some …

Roosevelt's defeat meant that pressure for health care reform initially came from outside the
government. 2 In 1915, the American Association of Labor Legislation (AALL), a reform …

Health insurance in the United States encompasses a unique blend of private, employment-
based insurance for the majority of the population, with governmental provision of insurance …

" Thirty years ago, Susan Sontag wrote," Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship in the
kingdom of the well and the kingdom of the sick... Sooner or later each of us is obliged, at …

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During the past century in the United States, advances in public health and health care have
increased life expectancy by approximately 30 years and led to dramatic changes in the …

There is no doubt that chronic disease is responsible for some of the greatest and most
complex problems facing health workers in Canada today. A study of morbidity and mortality …