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Health Education and Technology

problem with the approaches of the past, which were to hand out pamphlets at health care centers, was that the pamphlets did not a...

Senior Citizens and Influenza

et al, 1999). It is not uncommon for people to treat their symptoms as a cold, overcome the initial attack and then appear to fal...

Asian American Senior Citizens and Their Counseling Needs

is nonlinear and the cultural effects on elderly living arrangements persist longer than expected, especially as it concerns mode...

U.S. Health Care Costs and Reasons for Their Rise

1998, p. 111). Characteristic of a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the nations elderly citizens ...

Fitness and Health Club Location Selection

has continued to increase and countless individuals are dieting at any one time. Often, there is a strong relationship between the...

Abortion Issue and Midwives

unsafe by those who practice the procedure unskilled and unprepared for complications should they arise. So why do women still con...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

Advance Directives and Right to Life Decisions

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 pertains to health proxies, living ...

Investors in a New Fitness Club

with the money to invest but the people who will back up the effort in the long run. In fact, Griffin (2000) comments that as imp...

The Dioxins as Lingering Agent Orange Problems

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

Golf and Its Benefits to Health

The connection between body and mind is unmistakable, particularly in relation to the positive benefits of golf. As advantageous ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

Questions and Answers on Health Care Finance

volume is impacted by the effects of cost and revenues. . Hunt (1996) provides information in regards to cost accounting for a n...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

Personal Cholesterol Level Reduction and Health Promotion

of exercise extend beyond helping to burn the energy that the body stores as fat. Fat and cholesterol can collect along the...

NYC Health Club Proposal, The Six Moons Gym

the body to do it in style. Indeed, people of all ages, socioeconomic levels, and of both genders are flocking to health clubs to ...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

Western Pennsylvania's UPMC Health System Presentation

UPMCs presence in the local market prevents Highmark from indiscriminately increasing health insurance premiums across the board. ...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Why Abortion is Ethical and Should Be Legal in the Society of the Twenty First Century

moral and legal issues under constant debate over the issue of abortion but many of them are misleading, use misinformation and ar...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

Community Nursing and the Effects of Primary Care Trusts and the UK National Service Standards

the emphasis to more localised care with the primary health care trusts holding more of a an administrative and strategic role. ...

Process of Beef Irradiation

product to kill the growth of insects, molds and pathogens which exist within the meat product and can be harmful when ingested. R...