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Overview of Public Health Services

through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...

Public Health/Then & Now

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

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

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

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...

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...

Factors Affecting Health Care

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

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...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...

Ethnic Minority Children's Health Care and the Leeds' Report

repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Connection Between Service Utilization, Health Status, and General Community Health

As they take on more and more prescription drugs, driving becomes problematic. With a myriad of symptoms, diagnoses, and reduced m...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Health Care Insurance And The Unemployed

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

Commissioning a Health Care Facility

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

The CDC and World Health: Health Indicators and Initiatives

utilized by the CDC (WHO, 2009). The status of mental health in the community, the number of injuries, the level of violence, and...

Health and Safety and the Workers Compensation Scheme in New Zealand

When the report was undertaken it was noted that there were significant inadequacies in the way the workers compensation is dealt ...

Family Health Nursing

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

Frumkin, Environmental Health, Chaps. 14-18

of consumptions vary, with the industrialized countries using more than the developing countries (Rheingans 363). Various energy s...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

Reaction Paper/Public Health Readings/Videos

individuals contact ring, smallpox could be halted with available resources, making the seemingly impossible, possible. Similarl...

Funding Universal Health Care

to keep in mind is the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have some sort of national unive...

Reflective Learning Document on Safety and Health Policy Formation Information

party where contact may result in exposure of a risk. For a small company with no employees the lessons of the health...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

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...

UK Electronic Health Records' Implementation

by Actor Network Theory (ANT), therefore, it becomes not only the technical issue of using and discarding information as well as i...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

The Impact of Changes in Demography, Industrial Structure and Labor Market on the Health of Workers

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

Ethics Of Managed Care

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