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April 23, 2006
Indigent Healthcare - Not Even Thought About
Some really excellent public health resources are provided by those involved in indigent healthcare. I'm working on a project and the common thread is indigent healthcare, so I tag my internet sources indigent in del.icio.us. I thought I would really get some good ideas by looking at what sites all the other del.icio.us users in the world had labelled indigent. 36 links. How about homeless health? 69 links. How about charity? 2696 links; most of which have to do with soliciting money from rich people for low-rate-of-return projects like middle-class people hand-knitting scarves and giving them to poor people. Hey, I'm all for hand-knit scarves keeping people warm in the winter, but I'm thinking there are cheaper ways to get more scarves to more people.
All in all, I'm pretty savvy at literature review, and it's fairly obvious that not a lot of people think about taking care of the poor, but the ones that do think about it really hard. Probably some of the finest people in the world do this work. I'd say 94% of involvement is skin deep. The other 6% work themselves to the bone doing great work.
Posted by Niels Olson at April 23, 2006 7:53 PM
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