How is children’s health affected when there is a lack of affordable health care due to living in poverty?
When families are living in poverty, there is usually a lack of affordable heath care for the children, and because of this their health is affected. Many common childhood illnesses become very serious when the living conditions are not suitable and medical attention can not be received due to lack of funds to pay. It is something that affects children worldwide, but I will be dealing with the poverty and health care issues of the
Academic disciplines
Psychology, Sociology, Health
List the useful keywords and subject from indexes and databases
Poverty, health care, children's health
Important databases and other periodical indexes
The most important databases and periodical indexes in my search are ProQuest, and Google
By this time in the “game” I should have it all figured out, but unfortunately I don’t, and it’s really getting down to the wire, and I am really starting to panic. I still am not sure about the Library of congress subject headings, but I AM sure I can figure it out and get it right.
My topic can be a bit tricky to narrow down, and if I’m not careful I end up with thousands of results and then get really swamped trying to sort through them and narrow my results even more. Finding information on children in poverty and health problems due to the lack of health insurance for children is really easy, some of it ends up being fairly old, and some of it is from other countries. I think I would have been better off researching diseases of children in
Finding information on ProQuest has been a breeze, there are tons of newspapers and journals dealing with my topic, the only real problem I’ve been having is finding information that isn’t based on politics. Not that I should leave that out, but I have found what seems to be great info, and it ends up being some kind of smear campaign and not very reliable.
2 comments:
Interesting topic. I had trouble understanding what we needed for Library of Congress information too. Would Economics be another academic discipline for the poverty side of your topic? Did you try narrowing your search to information between certain dates to get more recent information, or did you decide to use the older information to establish a history of your topic (a history of poverty having an effect of the children's health)? You talked about narrowing your topic down; how are you thinking of doing that? Would you discuss how poverty might cause malnurishment and that could cause other problems? Or are you thinking more about how living in poverty effects kids that get sick, like the level of care they might hope to receive? Well, I hope maybe some of my questions might be of some kind of help. It sucks that you ended up losing some information, but good job finding new info!
lil biting gnome = tamara higgins, sorry i did not realize i needed to put my name
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