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Health Care Reform and LTC: Part II
October 15, 2009 2:56 PM by Carol Kleinman

Issues of long-term care have dominated public concern since President Clinton proposed his health care reform plan in 1993. Efforts towards a universal long-term care policy address priority areas of aging and disability in various ways such as the use Read More...

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Health Care Reform and LTC: Part I
October 9, 2009 9:21 AM by Carol Kleinman

If you suffer a massive heart attack and need expensive medical care in your golden years, it is likely that Medicare will cover your bills. But if you have the bad luck to contract Alzheimer's disease, sorry, you're on your own. Howard Gleckman's new Read More...

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Health Care and the Common Good
August 31, 2009 12:58 PM by Carol Kleinman

So, the basic debate in the U.S. over healthcare is not really about costs or the freedom to choose one's own doctor. The facts are clear: The World Health Organization rates the U.S. 37 th (!) in healthcare while we spend a much higher percentage of Read More...

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What about quality of life?
August 14, 2009 10:52 AM by Carol Kleinman

We now save people who would have died 30 years ago. People with severe trauma, stroke, heart attack, brain damage, and so on. We save preemies who would never have survived even 20 years ago. We see people living with severe chronic illness, people in Read More...

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Health Care Supply & Demand
August 5, 2009 9:45 AM by Carol Kleinman

While most goods and services adhere to the basic economic principle of supply and demand, in many ways healthcare does not. The principle of supply and demand describes a balance that develops between the supply of an item or service and the demand for Read More...

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Is Health Care a Right or a Privilege? Part 1 - Pro
July 20, 2009 3:03 PM by Carol Kleinman

Once upon a time before the Military-Industrial-Government Complex, Americans were mostly rural and relied on direct sources of food, water, fuel, and shelter. Personal involvement in and responsibility for those needs has decreased with the transformation Read More...

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Behavioral Medicine, Part II
August 27, 2008 11:33 AM by Carol Kleinman

Why is it effective? A growing body of research has documented the benefits of behavioral medicine in the treatment of acute and chronic illnesses. The interventions of behavioral medicine include behavioral or psychological strategies, which directly Read More...

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Behavioral Medicine, Part I
August 27, 2008 11:29 AM by Carol Kleinman

What is it? Behavioral medicine is an interdisciplinary field of medicine concerned with the development and integration of psychosocial, behavioral, and biomedical knowledge relevant to health and illness. It focuses on the contribution of psychological Read More...

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