Court records list his financial status as "indigent", unable to pay his lawyers.
Finally, cases selected may not necessarily be indicative of minority, low socioeconomic status, or indigent populations, since claims data can only provide data on those individuals who access the system.
"I understand the current status of the indigent defense office, as well as my civic duty," he wrote.
In previous studies, criteria related to marital status were not used in indigent selection.
The characteristics of indigents that determine their vulnerability, such as poor health status, isolation, and lack of income, should thus be among the criteria applied in the selection process.
Some reports suggest no difference in the rates of breast conserving surgery between indigent and well insured populations, whereas other studies suggest that economic status influence the treatment received [ 27].
Beginning in the early 1980s, when Mr D'Souza was off studying at Dartmouth, these affirmative-action policies engendered widespread resistance among India's elite classes, who were terrified of losing their privileged status in a colossal country where hundreds of millions of indigents might overwhelm the available spots at top schools (and reduce their kids' chances of, say, going to Dartmouth).
*includes those on the state's indigent care program Surveyed patients had many characteristics that reflected a lower socioeconomic status.
Reasons for dropping out included relocation, time conflicts with classes, telephones disconnected, and changes in insurance status; the latter allowed participants to enroll in the county medically indigent adults services, which provides them access to the nurse case-management component of the original Project Dulce model.
