In the United States, our comparatively poor health is due largely to the way we live.

Recent research confirms that to be white and working class places one at the greatest risk of not receiving adequate health care or emergency treatment

Runaway health-care costs began to be a serious social problem in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s.

Of each dollar spent by individuals on health care in 1994, almost 23 cents was spent for physicians' services.

Medicaid is an assistance program paid for by social security taxes.

Recent research has revealed that the volume of care received by patients in hospitals is directly related to their ability to pay.

Numerous studies have shown that when disabled people are hired, the negative stereotypes concerning their abilities are generally documented.

An unusual feature of HIV is the long period of latency--up to ten years--between the time of infection and the appearance of the disease.

Functionalist explanations of health-care problems focus on features of health-care institutions themselves.

The most far-reaching legislation affecting people with physical and mental disabilities is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.