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Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

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...

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...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

Health Care Economics and Funding in the United States - A History

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

An Overview of Medicaid Eligibility

state to state and from group to group. There are special rules for those who live in nursing homes and for disabled children livi...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

THE U.S. AND CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

came to the conclusion (interestingly enough) that healthcare outcomes didnt differ based on the public vs. private option. The re...

Health Care Three Ways

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

Billing, Coding and Reimbursement in the Health Care Field

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE IN KENYA

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Uninsured and HMOs

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

Outline for "History of the Prospective Payment System"

(2004, August 3). Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Retrieved November 11, 2006 from http://www.cms.hhs.gov/apps/media/p...

Running For A Seat In the U.S. House Of Representatives

will be addressing political concerns as opposed to focusing upon the war being waged between Democrats and Republicans. Th...

Call Tracking and Shand's Health Care

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Health Care System Problems and Theoretical Appications

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

Medicare's Part D and Its Impact

dressed in a hat and white cotton gloves, and her dress has lace-trimmed collar and cuffs with a small bouquet of violets containi...