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measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

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

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

the near future, however. This presents potentially severe consequences for the economics of elder care. The stakeholders in this...

offer such an important and expensive benefit if they were not required to do so by law. When an individual starts a company, he...

to believe that his strategy for paying the hospitals bill for treatment to be a sound one. He had sued the local trolley line (a...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

there was a problem of infections in long-term care facilities and in hospitals (Dimond, 1994). These are called nosocomial infect...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Obviously, the cost of administering such a program entails the running of a department and employing social workers and other sta...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

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...

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

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

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

resolve. Our nations seniors are responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased nee...

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

system is overloaded and completely unorganized. Managed care doctors are typically overworked, overstressed and underpaid, a com...

very wrong with health care in the United States. Presidents have been trying to fix the problem for decades but they are fightin...

nursing home residents, uninsured children and families, people with chronic illnesses...and other underserved groups" (Pomeroy, 2...

Medicare Part D has the ability to impact millions of individuals who are currently enrolled in Medicare and who were unable to ge...

doctors, administrators and health care objectives overall lack strategic connection when it comes to major issues. Anderson et a...

FY Budget overview for health care reform including Reduction of long-term growth of health care costs being saddled by bus...

an employee "at will," in other words, whenever the employer decided. Basically, the doctrine seemed to protect the employer from ...