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Diabetes/Reducing the Risk

increasing exercise. A decrease of just 7 to 10 percent from the baseline weight can have a beneficial effect on glucose tolerance...

Diabetic Education/New Nurses

Sometimes the ability to perform foot self-exams for follow-up education or acute illness (Nettles, 2005, p. 44). Additionally, ...

Gestational Diabetes

(Perkins, Dunn and Jagasia, 2007). Research has shown that the "magnitude of fetal-neonatal risk" is directly proportional to the ...

Diabetes Mellitus: A Case Study

plan and inhalers for asthma management. Other than asthma, though, JR did not report any other major past medical problems....

Glucose and Diabetes

would mean a loss of "freedom" and he was also concerned about possible erectile dysfunction (Gebel, 2008). Others believe that in...

Diabetes Mellitus: Causes, Effects and Treatment

impacts and treatments. Diabetes is caused by imbalances in glucose levels. Rapid fluctuations of glucose levels can resul...

The Effect of Juvenile Diabetes on a Child’s Life

need it, and monitor their blood; both of these could interfere with daily routine and make the child feel hes being singled out (...

Why Pharmaceutical Companies Focus On A Disease

potential to make it through to the next step, the Phase 1 human testing trials (Masia, 2008). This is a very healthy small group...

Lexington Diabetes Center Marketing Plan

that individuals learn why they need to control their blood sugar and that exercise multiplies the effectiveness of dietary contro...

Economic Indicators 2006

Budget Office forecasts that gross domestic product will grow by 3.6 percent after inflation (in "real" terms) this year and by 3....

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Patients with Diabetes and Diet

other organs, such as the heart, kidneys and eyes (Visalli, 1996). Although individuals with Type I diabetes must take insulin, d...

Type 2 Diabetes

Kolatkar, 2005). For instance, a lack of exercise and obesity are believed to contribute to diabetes (American Diabetes Associatio...

Type I Diabetes and Stress Effects

appropriate and necessary. Statement of Purpose This proposed study would investigate the effects of psychological stress on gl...

Faith-Based Counseling

anxiety or address a family problem, they may prefer faith-based counseling simply because its in a language that fits them and th...

Diabetes in America

the pancreas do not produce enough insulin in order to meet the bodys needs, and this is in part attributable to the acquired decr...

Living with Multiple Health Needs; Care Assessment

over between the social and the medical areas, the care plan needs to look at each and determine the way in which these will be de...

Disease Management Programs/Diabetes & Effectiveness

levels (Rickheim et al 269). Fireman, Barlett and Selby (2004) Over the past decade disease management programs (DMPs) have prol...

Article Critique/Gestational Diabetes

being-in-the-world" (Evans and OBrien, 2005, p. 68). Each woman who received an invitation letter and showed interesting in partic...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Christian Viewpoint - War In Iraq

aggressive regimes, punishment for a wrongdoing that has not been corrected. Iraqs 1990 invasion into Kuwait is an example of a ju...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

E-Health and Women's Hypertension

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

Criminal Justice Policy Change: Open-System

each community and asking about individual "safety concerns and security needs" (Greene, 2000, pp. 299-370). One particular commu...

Public Health in Haiti; A Research Proposal

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...