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example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

the store improving customer service quality, but it might not generate sufficient income to pay the extra costs. Coppola, Erchk...

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

few points of the requirements of HVAC design and execution in the new health care facility, but they demonstrate the complexity i...

own studies in numerous areas, such as formal logic, metaphysics, action theories, and to her readings of Aristotle, Aquinas and m...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

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

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

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

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

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

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

authors state that research "and theory are key underpinnings that guide safe, effective, and comprehensive" (p. 35) practice. As...

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

In twelve pages the scientific practice of health care is described in a consideration of the relationship between health care and...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...