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The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Duchess of Malfi by John Webster

that the whole land is "diseased" and "poisoned." Later in that same scene. Antonio predicts that Bosolas "foul melancholy" will "...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Nigeria, AIDS, and the Importance of Education in Prevention

project, we assumed that the nursing journals, most specifically would have a great deal of information about AIDS and Nigeria. Th...

Necessity of Vaccinations for Children

"little or no firsthand knowledge" about the seriousness of childhood diseases (Kimmel et al, 1996). Back in 1993, for example, a ...

Contemporary Knowledge of HIV

chromosomes of the affected cell. This duplication process is carried out with the help of an enzymatic reaction controlled by th...

Comprehensive Overview of Diabetes Mellitus

2001, p. 217). Diabetes mellitus is a group of metabolic diseases that are characterized by high blood sugar (glucose) levels i...

Condom Usage and Prevention of HIV

however, come replete with a number of risk (Hollen, 2004). Many of these risks can be life altering (Hollen, 2004). Some such a...

Canadian Health Care System Proposal

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Epidemiological Overview of Lassa Fever

In five pages this paper examines the disease that was first discovered in 1969 and containment attempts. Five sources are cited ...

College Campuses and Homosexuality

are given the opportunity to buy condoms at greatly reduced prices. Even so, "Only 48% of heterosexuals and 36% of gays claim to ...

Assessiing Chlamydia and Intervention Options

and treatments which are necessitated by the venereal disease Chlamydia. The venereal disease Chlamydia presents a number o...

More Negative Than Positive Effects of Anabolic Steroids

with normal hormone production, causing a kind of drug-induced sex change -- men can become feminized, with shrunken testicles and...

Discussion of Bacterial Meningitis

past three decades (Freeman, 1997), the idea of one vaccine to address three strains of meningitis is nothing short of phenomenal....

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...

Overview of Chinese Beliefs

2002). In addition, dietary practices in Asia are often associated with religious practices and customs (Gifford, 2002). R...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

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...

Discussion of Diabetes Mellitus

damaging kidney function, eyesight and having the very real potential of causing limb amputation. Genetically determined, diabete...

Stress and Cardiovascular Reactivity

on the other hand are the event or situation which leads to certain physiological changes or reactions. Stressors can be ...

Sonnet 147 by William Shakespeare

condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...

Environmental Health and Asbestosis

Lung Disease Surveillance Report, 1996). This is true of the UK and the international environment, and is due to the delay between...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Omega Three Fatty Acids Questions

has led to decreasing access to health care as greater numbers of individuals lose their health insurance coverage in response to ...

Red Genital Lesions and Patient Diagnosis

how it was initiated. This means that contacting partners, or figuring out who might have given one the disease, can become rather...

Clinical Research on Emphysema

behavioral related disease. The various stages of emphysema include the destruction of the air sacs inside of the lungs. This ...

Making a Difference and Breast Cancer

help each other and empowers them to become their own health care advocates" (Anonymous, 2002), all of which requires the shelter ...