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Howard Frumkin/Environmental Health

pioneering work of Paracelsus (1493-1541) and how it is the dose that makes something toxic; how toxicants are classified; and wha...

UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE COVERAGE: A BAD IDEA

The problem is, this is too simplistic a viewpoint. Universal coverage involves more than putting the entire cumbersome system int...

Universal Health Care Funding

congresses Schwarzeneggers They are unlike to pass. Consider one more state - Massachusetts which passed a universal health care p...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

A Systematic Approach To Managing OHS - BSBOHS401B

a focus on controlling hazards from their source rather than dealing with individual risks, strong inspection procedures and rigor...

New York Attorney General's Office

to the time before there was even a United States of America. In New Netherlands, a schout was appointed and reported directly to...

Global Economy and Health Care

is the best product, [healthcare providers] will just use a cheaper product, and then if it doesnt work, theyll go to your product...

Issues of Schizophrenia, Pregnancy, and Mental Health Nursing

In eight pages this paper discusses schizophrenia in pregnant women from the perspective of mental health nursing. Eight sources ...

Global Economy and Health Care Industry

In five pages this paper focuses upon technology in a discussion of the global economy and the entry of the health care industry. ...

FUTURE TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE

days, thanks to technology and the Internet, distance treatment is being used more and more in the delivery of health care service...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

Eating Hamburgers Every Day

red meat, with a clear understanding that hamburger meat is likely the least healthy of red meats due to its being processed and b...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Nutrition for Athletes

by telling them that everyones confused about what to eat, and then giving them solid guidelines. For instance, she says its impor...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Enacting Environmental Change

danger of being wiped off the face of the Earth...And now there are more people than ever in harms way (Tibbetts, 2007, p. A202). ...