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Navigating the Health Care Labyrinth: Portraits of the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged

Crawford, Thomas C.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1391617138

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2014, Ph.D., Antioch University, Leadership and Change.
In 2010, an estimated population of the 311,212,863 Americans generated approximately 1,014,688,290 physician office encounters (Moore, 2010). The frequency and number of professional interactions between caregivers and patients/family members in medical office settings equated to a staggering 1,931 visits per minute. Based on the massive volume of interactions that occurred between patients of different races, ethnicities, genders, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic standings that generated an average household income of $49,445 in 2010 (United States Census Bureau, 2010a) with a physician workforce that the Association of American Medical Colleges (2010) captured as being 75% White that earned (primary care specialties) in excess of $190,000 per year in personal income (Hyden, 2011), a paradigm for potential discrimination is created through heterogeneous customers seeking health care services from a mostly affluent homogeneous workforce. What are the experiences of the underinsured in attempting to obtain routine and emergent medical care in the United States? Based on the identified void in the current body of scholarship that leaves silent the voices of millions of underserved and socioeconomically disadvantaged patients, this dissertation will extend the muted voices and, thus, create a platform to learn through the patients' personal contexts and unique health stories. The electronic version of this Dissertation is at OhioLink ETD Center, www.ohiolink.edu/etd.
Carolyn Kenny, PhD (Committee Chair)
Alan Guskin, PhD (Committee Member)
Laura Morgan Roberts, PhD (Committee Member)
Christine Phillips, M.B.B.S. (Other)
245 p.
Health Care; Health Care Management
health care; access; Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services; commercial insurance; discrimination; emergency department; disparities; labyrinth; outcomes; socioeconomic status; social class; uninsured; underinsured; portraiture; phenomenology;

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  • Crawford, T. C. (2014). Navigating the Health Care Labyrinth: Portraits of the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged [Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1391617138

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Crawford, Thomas. Navigating the Health Care Labyrinth: Portraits of the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged. 2014. Antioch University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1391617138.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Crawford, Thomas. "Navigating the Health Care Labyrinth: Portraits of the Socioeconomically Disadvantaged." Doctoral dissertation, Antioch University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=antioch1391617138

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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