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Women's Organization Feminist Majority Foundation

groups had targeted. One such group announced earlier their plans to make Los Angeles the first abortion-free city in the country,...

Feminism in the Nineteen-Thirties

discussed, or not discussed during the time period, abortions were available to those who knew where to look. But, it was a danger...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and Hispanic Americans

This research paper presents to a student an example paper of how the student might discuss the student's personal risk for develo...

Resolving Conflicts-A Process

This paper discusses conflict, especially in health care organizations. The paper uses an example of a conflict between two nurses...

Disparities in Health Care Access

Not every American has the same opportunity to access and receive quality health care services. There are a number of social, econ...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

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...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Senior Citizens, AARP, and Health Care

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

Nursing and Health Care Political Issues

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Obesity and American Health

determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...

Peruvian Americans, Culture and Society

an equilibrium and patients may have difficulty discussing depression openly (OMH, 2005). Another Hispanic health belief is that...

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...

Smoking Cessation Speech Example

anything to us anymore. However, when placed in a new perspective, such as in the role of a mass murderer, then the statistics tak...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Airline Industry After Terrorist Attacks of 2001

spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...

Alcohol and Teens

prevalence of teenage alcohol abuse are major public health problems in the United States. Nobody denies the simple fact that th...

Education and Health in America and Canada

In seven pages the Canadian and American health care and educational systems are contrasted and compared in terms of the similarit...

Native American Issues

In six pages issues of land, leadership, and health as they pertain to Native Americans throughout the course of history are discu...

ANA as a Political Action Committee

a compulsory health insurance program for its elderly citizens (225). There are indications then that American circumstances, as ...

Native American Past and Present Historical Issues

diseases such as smallpox, malaria, measles, cholera, tuberculosis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, mumps, influenza and typhoid fe...

Adolescent and Child Obesity

In eleven pages the problem of obesity in American children is examined in terms of adolescent health risks and causes that includ...