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

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

among the best in the world, with figures of 83.0 years for women and 79.6 years for men, while the United States has an average l...

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

reciprocating" (p. 169). Transactional leaders tend to live by certain values. These include honesty, integrity, fairness and acc...

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

intake and the general type of diet which is consumed and the need for a nutritional balance physical activity is also an importan...

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

of tobacco usage and the tobacco industry has changed dramatically. While cigarettes were once an ubiquitous part of American "hig...

study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this stu...

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

In eight pages this report examines cities of Australia with the concentration being issues involving men's health. Eleven source...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

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

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 ...

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

money to pay for food, rent, and other basic necessities. Today, more Americans than ever have jobs," but still "a growing number ...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

horses - just as susceptible as their human counterparts. Symptoms in people include flu-like discomfort, which may turn into ase...

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Someone with a chronic disease like diabetes would have to shell out hundreds of dollars each month for supplies if they choose to...

underlying the formulation of the nurse-patient relationship. According to Mallik (1998) a great deal of the literature on this to...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

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