The public and the welfare reform debate

Article Abstract:

The American public appears to hold conflicting opinions about welfare. Researchers analyzed data from 19 surveys collected between 1937 and 1995. Over half of respondents thought the current welfare system did harm by encouraging out-of-wedlock pregnancy and discouraging working. The majority believed welfare should help put people to work, including women with young children. Two-thirds thought welfare costs too much. Three-quarters believed that many jobs pay too little to support a family and that the government should help. Two-thirds or more favored time limits on welfare for the able-bodied, but over half opposed denying benefits if it meant that children would be placed in orphanages or ending welfare for unmarried teenaged mothers. Still, the majority would refuse to increase benefits for women on welfare who have more children or would deny benefits if the woman did not name the father. Three-quarters or more favored job training, providing childcare, and garnishing wages of fathers delinquent on child support payments.

Social aspects, Finance, Welfare reform, Child health services

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Improving patient safety- five years after the IOM report

Article Abstract:

A 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) revealed that 48000 to 98000 people die in hospital due to preventable medical errors, making hospital-based errors the eighth leading cause of death in the United States. In the survey of 2003, it was found that the programs initiated in response to the 1999 report are adopted by health care sectors thus making patient care safer.

United Kingdom, Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, Institute of Medicine, Evaluation, Powers and duties, Patients, Patient care

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