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Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Born Unwanted Examined Critically

boys would prove to have greater difficulties than the girls in the study. Another hypothesis was that "the effect of unwan...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Mental Health Agency Organizational Change

money for upgrades and improvements. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cu...

Marketing Campaign Case Study Development

to re-launch this service to this target market with a budget of ?1,000. The best way to look at this is to consider the theory be...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Bally's and the Fitness Industry

II. The Gym Industry The health club industry has been shown to be tough during even the most difficult economic times ("Indu...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Overview of Healthcare and Cultural Attitudes

put in their mouths. The concern was so great, that during the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Internet and Information Democratization

data to the general public that can even be dangerous. II. Review of Literature Raskin (1994) notes that the information superhi...

China, the U.S., and Health Care

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

Overview of SCHIP

coverage ("State Childrens" PG) A child who is an inmate in a public institution or is a patient in an institution for mental dis...

Justice, Philosophy, and Ethics of Health Care Rationing

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Health Care System Negligence

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

Inaccessbility to Those Needing California Health Insurance

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

Overview of the WHO

offset incoming pathogens (Anonymous, 1996). Not surprisingly, the "erosion of the public health infrastructure" of the World Hea...

Nursing and Health Care Policy

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

Global Environmental and Children's Health and the Foreign Policy of the United States

Clearly there is a problem. Due to many technological advances and increasing worldwide populations, there are more and more...

Diesel Fuel Emissions and Their Detrimental Impact Upon Health

Diesel emissions are more hazardous than emissions from gasoline engines (Auto Pollution, 2002). Studies have found that...

National Health Service and Complementary Medicine

homeopathic medicine and complementary therapies have been in Englands NHS (Evidence Influencing British Health Authorities Decisi...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

Energy Policies of the European Union

has been declining, the level was only 50% of the budget in Framework Programme I that took place between 1984-7, which amounted t...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

Emotions and Health

in a joint effort by the American Psychological Association and the Mayo Clinic demonstrated that there are significant advantages...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Austria's Health Care Financial System Positioning

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

Veterans' Health Care

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...