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and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

the led. These distinctions depend on the ability to distinguish voluntary from involuntary compliance and to assess goal compati...

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 ...

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

In four pages a hypothetical situation is considered in which a conflict commences in an ICU between a healthcare assistant and a ...

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...

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

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

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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