Essays 421 - 450
events in life. Antonovsky suggests that a sense of coherence is an essential factor in the maintenance of health. In his "salu...
In five pages this paper discusses health care costs and workers' compensation in a consideration of health and life insurance iss...
The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...
infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...
through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...
health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...
Impact of the Health Care Delivery System on the Availability of Health Education Services in the United States...
of those "right-time, right-place" solutions for the Hospital for Sick Children, which was spearheading the initiative, the other ...
this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...
asthma, cancer, diabetes, and childhood obesity" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). Improved eyesight and children having higher intelligence ...
E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...
now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...
course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...
Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...
of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...
2006 edition of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, the editors asked their readers their opinions on issues re...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...
(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...
agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...
gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...
Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...
conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...
has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...
to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...
patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...
by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...
to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...