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Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Article Critique of Scott, et al (2006)

and fall-related injuries among the adult clients in home support services. Hypothesis/hypotheses While the hypothesis of the stu...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Two Topics, Self-Efficacy/Childhood Obesity

Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs in Low Income Communities

when put into practice, especially when they targeted "low-income inner-city minority youth" (Thiel & McBride, 1992). They did thi...

Psychological Counseling and the Cognitive Behavioral Method

occur on an everyday basis. Some errors are minor but others can have disastrous consequences. Some can even lead to increased l...

Overview of Conjoined Twins

so that two embryos form, one on either side of the constriction point(Twins 2003). One may deduce from these early studies, then,...

Economic and Political Perspectives on Health, Aging, and Utilization of Health Services

but much of the cost is a simple reflection of the fact that medical science is keeping people alive longer than it has in previou...

Connection Between Cancer and Diet

were pasta, white bread and rice (2002). Researchers have suspected that women who eat a lot of refined carbohydrates do not get e...

An MRSA Overview

disease is contagious and something that needs to be controlled. The prospect of having a perfectly normal teenager one day and t...

Examination of Gout

1995; Flieger, 1995). The body converts these substances to uric acid through metabolism. Approximately two thirds of the uric a...

Singapore and China

leave after anther two years (CIA, 2003). The position of the country is now as one of the worlds strongest economic countries, wi...

4 Major Child Abuse Types, Treatment, Prevention, and Statistics

display in addition to the emotional trauma which remains long after the abuse has ended and the scars have healed. Children who h...

AIDS and Media Advocacy Campaign

who are HIV positive or already in full-blown AIDS, inasmuch as 8,994 children under thirteen were diagnosed with AIDS, while anot...

Mental Health Therapy Options, Maintenance of Treating Mental Health Issues, and Cost Effective Measures

Cost-Effective Mental Health Care a) 12-Step Self-Help Group Therapies Researchers at the Stanford University School...

Safety and Preventing Wildfires

fires to reach unmanageable intensity. As white settlers moved into the fire zones of the West, it became desirable to prev...

Organizational Communications and Conflict Management

a formal grievance procedure to disclose concerns - nor does that employee need note on his or her record that such a procedure wa...

Internet Censorship of Dangerous Information

or the ability to offer ones opinion on any particular issue. Instead, it is a means for public protection and an effort to assure...

Overview of AIDS and HIV

tissue (AIDS, 2002). Therefore, HIV is transmitted through a variety of means (AIDS, 2002, See also HIV and its Transmission, 2...

Gun Deaths and Public Gun Availability Correlation

an assailant. It is because the person who is carrying it is sending out a message that if used, it will be to kill. Any person ...

Computers and Usage of Security Blankets

the "intangible traces" of traditional learning, there are now electronic "artifacts" that can be owned, reproduced, and marketed....

Effectiveness of Law Enforcement

is occasionally not as effective in fulfilling its role to society and its citizens as it should be. There can be little doubt t...

Asia, Forest Fires, and Air Pollution

burned in addition to the health havoc it wreaked on the population of South East Asia (Linden, 1998). At the height of the fires,...

Gang Prevention Programs in Schools and an Article Review of 'How Great is G.R.E.A.T. (Gang resistance education and training)?'

that empower adolescents with the ability to resist peer pressure to join gangs". It does so in an approach that encourages behav...

Society's Mission and the Concept of Prevention

of health care approaches, including prevention and rehabilitation" (Smith & Moyers 311). Smith and Moyers point out why the Unit...

Business Ethics Violations

after he heard about a pending takeover from a law partner. Because OHagans firm was not employed by Pillsbury but rather, was ret...