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HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

Colorectal Cancer Prevention and Management

to the health care system, or that everyone should be screened just in case, but rather, that the testing can be uncomfortable, an...

Program for the Prevention of Teen Suicide

suicide. This same instrument can be used following therapy to determine differences before and after counseling. Because teen su...

Primary Prevention Strategy Against Divorce

todays marriages. Those factors are money and gender expectations. The literature has recognized the fact that gender roles in s...

Examination of Diabetes

causes behind the increased incidence of this disease (Mathur and Shiel, 2003). Experts feel that, in general, the risk for type 2...

Cancer Interventions

care professionals and systems because of previous negative experiences. The literature emphasizes that all women, regardless of...

Deadly Skin Cancer Form Malignant Melanoma

of UV radiation than where the ozone layer is intact. Even where there are no particular problems with overhead ozone, peop...

MRSA Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)

of settings ranging from nursing homes, to prisons, to athletic teams (Turabelidze, Mei Lin, Wolkoff, Dosson, Gladback, and Zhu, 2...

Security Manager Assistance Offered by Analyzing Crime Patterns

in front of their school are all examples of provocative situations that may escalate and trigger crimes."1 Human nature i...

Smoking Prevention Strategies from an Economic Perspective

is 130% of ideal bodyweight5. There are also other hidden costs that are often ignored in terms of the cost and benefit of smokin...

Preventing Obesity

(2004) reported the following: in 2000, 64.5 percent of American adults were identified as overweight and 30.5 percent were obese....

United Kingdom and Policies of Suicide Prevention

considered. Durkheim looked at suicide, which was defined as any action which lead subsequently to the death of the individual, ei...

Surgery Preparation of Hands

non-sterile paper. The participant would then use a sufficient amount of the aqueous alcoholic solution to fully cover the hands...

Instrument Cleaning Prior to Sterilization

workplace performance, motivation and overall productivity. Research suggests that workplace motivation and overall productivity ...

Infant Abduction Consulting Firm

And finally, outfitting hospitals with the most effective and appropriate infant abduction security system is the main task of Res...

Social Organization and the Self Control Criminology Theory of Michael Gottredson and Travis Hirschi

interest of society as a whole, criminals have not. Gottredson and Hirschi attribute this failure to inadequate or improper child...

HVC or Hepatitis C

Although certain populations are more prone to the disease, because young people are inordinately affected, this is a problem that...

Polk County, Florida Diabetes Prevention Program Proposal

50.9% of the population ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). The population is 79.6 white ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). It seem...

High Heels and Resulting Medical Problems

wear heels? It can result in a neuroma, leading to affected areas often between the third and fourth metatarsals (Christiansen, 20...

Evaluation of a Prevention Program

the standards of utility, feasibility, propriety and accuracy (CDC, 1999). These standards are defined by the CDC in the followin...

Decreasing Drop-Out Rate In Washington State

rate in the state of Washington was 30 percent (Puget Sound Educational Service District, 2006). Although how this figure was dete...

A Program to Reduce Infidelity

Vaughan also argues that it is unlikely that with this level of occurrence the reasons behind infidelity are unlikely to be simply...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Impact Of Suicide On The Survivor

experiences she has had with others as a means by which to demonstrate the individual issues of denial, false hope and the common ...

Preventing Falls

Institute as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, which set the benchmarks for success (Jackson and Gleason 37). St. Clare...

Loss Prevention Program for Golf Course Turf Management

the applicator or the general public, however, and some have the ability to damage the turfgrass plants they are meant to protect ...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

Emergency Response and Fire Prevention Plan

any conditions including total darkness or thick smoke. This requires that the signs have their own backup power systems that wil...

Adding an Athletic Trainer to the Sports Medicine Clinic

increase; third-party payers strive to keep payments as low as possible; individuals seek to enhance performance or gain the great...

Exposure of Sanitation Workers to Disinfectants in a Hospital Environment

and staff. Of lesser concern have been the indirect impacts of disinfectant use, including the risk to the sanitation workers due ...