Consumer Education in the Human Services
eBook - PDF

Consumer Education in the Human Services

Pergamon Policy Studies

  1. 288 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Consumer Education in the Human Services

Pergamon Policy Studies

About this book

Consumer Education in the Human Services: A Social Policy Book focuses on the trends in consumer education and inclusion of the human services sector, aside from budgeting and purchase of goods, among the considerations in consumer education. The selection first offers information on consumers in the service society and consumer education and advocacy, including the service society, activating consumers, and models of consumer education. The text also looks at consumer education from the feminist perspective. Topics include feminist housing, transportation, and medical care. The manuscript ponders on low-income consumers and disabled consumers as enabled producers, as well as facts regarding low-income service consumers and poor consumers in the 1970s. The text also concentrates on health care, self-care and health planning, and costs of medical care. Private insurance discrimination, flaws of family-related insurance coverage, and women and the health delivery system are discussed. The book is a valuable source of information for readers interested in consumer education.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Consumer Education in the Human Services: A Social Policy Book
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Part I:Consumers in the Service Society
  7. Part II: Consumers in Action
  8. Chapter 3. A Feminist Perspective
  9. Chapter 4. 26 Million Low-Income Consumers
  10. Chapter 5. An Intergenerational Approach
  11. Chapter 6. Disabled Consumer as Enabled Producer
  12. Chapter 7. "Checkbook":A "Consumer Reports" for the Services
  13. Part Ill:Health
  14. Chapter 9. A Course for Activated Patients
  15. Chapter 10. Self-Care and Health Planning
  16. Chapter 11. Third Party Payments
  17. Chapter 12.Insuring Women's Health
  18. Chapter 13. How I Tried to Navigatet The Health System . . .and Didn't Succeed
  19. Part IV: Education
  20. Chapter 15. The Community Voice in Public Education
  21. Chapter 16. Youth:A Consumer Vanguard
  22. Chapter 17. How to Go to the College of Your Choice
  23. Chapter 18. The Greatest Consumer Fraud of All
  24. Chapter 19. School Records:A Parent's View
  25. Chapter 20. What Tracking Did to Ollie Taylor Thomas
  26. Part V:Communications for What?
  27. Chapter 22. The Televised Professional
  28. Chapter 23. Advertising Professional Services
  29. Part VI:Consumerism Beware
  30. Chapter 25. The Professional Service Business
  31. Chapter 26. Warning:Consumer Educators May Be Dangerous
  32. Chapter 27. The Professionalization of the Client
  33. Chapter 28. The Limits of Consumerism
  34. Index
  35. About the Contributors
  36. Pergamon Policy Studies