{"product_id":"9781421408859","title":"Free Clinics: Local Responses to Health Care Needs","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn community after community, \u003ci\u003epro bono\u003c\/i\u003e and student-run health clinics have sprung up over the past 30 years, providing critically needed care to medically underserved populations. \u003ci\u003eFree Clinics\u003c\/i\u003e is a mosaic formed by accounts of such clinics around the United States. These wide-ranging narratives—from urban to rural, from primary care to behavioral health care—provide examples that will assist other communities seeking to find the model that best fits their needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has improved access to health care for many Americans, but millions remain and will remain uninsured or underinsured. Free clinics provide non-emergency care to those in need. Nationwide, professionals can be found offering volunteer services at these clinics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributors to this volume—typically people with personal familiarity (as clinicians or area residents) with the clinics they write about—cover a variety of topics, including a review of the literature, data-driven accounts of clinic usage, and ethical guidelines for student-run clinics. They describe the motivations of clinic staff, the day-to-day work of a family nurse practitioner working in clinics and teaching at a university, the challenges and rewards of providing health care for homeless people, and more. Student-run clinics are the topic of the second section: in addition to providing care to a small subset of those in need, student-run clinics are an important venue for training future clinicians and helping the seeds of altruism with which many enter their professions to germinate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFree Clinics\u003c\/i\u003e will be useful to policymakers, students and faculty in public health and health policy programs, and clinicians and students who are embarking on launching new clinics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153955176688,"sku":"9781421408859","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781421408859_p0.jpg?v=1763737936","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421408859","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}