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All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

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

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...

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

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

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...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

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

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

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

the amount of goods will be in standard amounts and the delivery terms will be identical throughout all the contracts (Grossman, 1...

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

A seven page paper delineating the factors behind the impetus for better health care products and services. From the 1960s onward...

In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...

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

In five pages this paper examines how to market home health care with a local marketer interviewed and a community facility that f...

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

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...