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Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

4 Issues Involving Health Information Management

aptly named: the health information manager for integration, the clinical data specialist, the patient information coordinator, th...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Problem of Uninsured Patients and New York's Metropolitan Hospital Center Operations

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Methodology Proposal on Depression and Obesity

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

Literature Reviews of Studies on Heart Failure and Obesity

topic under discussion. Difference between primary and secondary sources : One source was selected in order to help illustrate th...

United Kingdom's White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Dignity and Privacy Issues

regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...

Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

Health of Canadian Aborigines

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

Canada's Tele-Health and E-Health Systems

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

Obesity is Not a Problem of Epidemic Proportions

away from parents who are blamed for abuse or neglect if a child becomes too fat. In the old days, this was unheard of. Families t...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

Understanding the Cultural Aspect of the Obesity Epidemic Among Children in America

food, something that is very important and relevant in the United States. This author notes, "Technological change (e.g. industria...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Various Factors That Contribute to Obesity

care physician (Ridings, Rapp, Boosalis, and Pomeroy, 1998). Millions of Americans, in fact, can be classified as obese. Obesity...

Obesity and Nutrition

as obese (Liou, Pi-Sunyer, Xavier and Laferr?re, 2005). Raatz, Torkelson, Redmon, Reck, Kristell et. al. (2005) provide a...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

1991 to 1998 Obesity in America

Control and Prevention in conjunction with the work of state health departments (Mokdad et al, 1999, p. 1519). This survey is des...

Teen Obesity

This research paper pertains to data on the prevalence of obesity among American adolescents. This information reveals that it is ...

Working Conditions Can Impact Quality of Life

This paper has two sections: psychosocial factors that affect health and an appraisal of two journal articles. The first section p...