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Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

Security Manager Assistance Offered by Analyzing Crime Patterns

in front of their school are all examples of provocative situations that may escalate and trigger crimes."1 Human nature i...

Smoking Prevention Strategies from an Economic Perspective

is 130% of ideal bodyweight5. There are also other hidden costs that are often ignored in terms of the cost and benefit of smokin...

March of 1988 Kurdish Halabja Massacre

in the alleys, in homes, in their own beds (Atroushi, 2006). Kaveh Golestan, an Iranian photographer, described the scene: "It w...

Primary Prevention Strategy Against Divorce

todays marriages. Those factors are money and gender expectations. The literature has recognized the fact that gender roles in s...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Deadly Skin Cancer Form Malignant Melanoma

of UV radiation than where the ozone layer is intact. Even where there are no particular problems with overhead ozone, peop...

Need for Community Prevention and Correction Programs

officers and to a much lesser extent fund prevention programs ( Petersilia, 1995). In the next year, 1995, the bill was revised a...

Polk County, Florida Diabetes Prevention Program Proposal

50.9% of the population ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). The population is 79.6 white ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). It seem...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Long Island City Community Program of Drug Prevention Proposal

drug use, there is good reason to rail against the problem. How can a community organize against drug abuse? First, what is orga...

Teen Suicide

This research paper presents an overview of adolescent suicide. Gender and causal factors, warning signs and symptoms and preventi...

The Elderly and Psychiatric Polypharmacy

This paper reports on the dissemination process for a DNP project, the impact and prevention of psychiatric polypharmacy among the...

Juvenile Justice and Individual Prevention

This research paper describes the various approaches that have been tried in regard how best to handle juvenile justice and the wr...

Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies

This research paper reviews recent research that indicates prevention strategies that affect overall risk for breast cancer. Six p...

Exploring Health Promotion Services

This research paper begins by defining health promotions. It then offers discussions of the purposes associated with health promot...

Catheter-Associated UTI Training

This essay offers a scenario teaching nurses and assistant to prevent UTIs associated with catheters. The essay describes the sett...

Pennsylvania Public Health Law

This research paper provides an overview of two provisions of Pennsylvania's Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 and descr...

MRSA Prevention

This research paper pertains to the problem of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). The writer focuses on preventio...

MRSA Article Critiques

This paper critiques three articles that focus on the control, treatment and prevention of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant...

JNC 7 Hypertension Recommendations

This research paper discusses the recommendations made by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detect...

Treatment and Prevention of Conduct Disorders

In a paper of five pages, the writer looks at conduct disorders. Treatment and prevention strategies are analyzed in a review of l...

HIV Education Lesson Plan for African Americans

This research paper describes the targeted learner population, which is African American men and women between the ages of 18 and ...

Evaluation Plan for HIV Education Program

This research paper pertains to an evaluation plan for an HIV prevention program that is targeted at African Americans. Three page...

What is Fair Pricing?

The writer looks at the idea of fair pricing explaining what it is and how the perception of fair pricing will vary depending on ...

Literature Retrieval and Review: Vitamin D

This research paper consists of two sections. The first section offers an annotated bibliography of articles that focus on the rol...

The Use of a Health Promotion Model

In a paper of nine pages, the author reflects on the use of a behavioral health promotion model in at-risk populations. Specifica...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...