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Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

A Memo Advocating that Pharmacists have Prescriptive Authority

error, is increased substantially. Not only does this result in a lowered quality of health, it results in a significant economic...

Developing Health Policy Through Lobbying

Association (AHA) alone increased on internal and external federal lobbying to $12 million in 2000 from $6.8 million in 1997, whic...

Influence of Advanced Practice Nurses

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

Gayle L. Zieman The Handbook of Managed Behavioral Healthcare

hundred years of managed care Zieman steps backward in chapter 2 and offers a discussion of the history of prepaid health plans i...

Overview of Self Mutilation

superficial variety is most common among adolescents. Self-mutilation is commonly the cutting of forearms or wrists, but there ca...

Health Care Reform Crisis

time has run out for this dysfunctional, disjointed thing we cal heath care" (2002, p. A15). Increasing premiums force employers t...

Patient Autonomy and Nursing Student Ethics Article

are under our care. By promoting healthy and better communication between us and the patient, we do not need to involve the famil...

Healthcare According to John Kerry and George W. Bush

making their own choices and opting to purchase for themselves individual insurance (Gleckman, 2004). The President believes that...

UK State and Healthcare Law

If we look at the situation historically the state has not always involved itself in healthcare. At the begiunnig of the twentyith...

Nurse Practitioner Role/The Present, The Future

innumerable national health system in meeting the demands for primary care in todays society (Main, Dunn and Kendall, 2007). NPs...

Operations Management; Principle Healthcare Case Study

to identify the main activities of the company, as to gain accreditation under EMAS, or ISO 14001, a company needs to "establish a...

Accessibility for Elderly to Rural Healthcare

been great debate over how to manage health care in the US, it has been relatively recently that the question has been raised that...

Osteoporosis In Elderly Women

in harmony and when they dont, osteoporosis is the result (Kantrowitz, 2007). Bone mineral density is generally measured as a T-s...

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...

Ethical Position Paper on Advance Directives, Ethical Decision-Making and Utilitarianism

wishes, she would remain on life support. This scenario has several ethical implications from the nursing or medical professional...

Discussion on Articles 1 - 4; Rights of Children and Health

abuse, what it is, the causes, the apparent cyclic behaviour and the way that it may be prevented. Early studies indicated that ab...

Healthcare And Strategic Management

institution with a type of benchmark that evaluates their position in the market, internal metrics provide information about the i...

Organizational Leadership and Politics

ahead and enjoy the practices of the past (or those of recent government bailout recipients), but not to flaunt them too flamboyan...

State of Science, Nursing Ethics

Background/Review of Literature The eight articles/studies that constitute this literature review encompasses several key concept...

Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain

very different plans to prospective voters. Obamas healthcare plan focuses on expanding coverage to Americans that are presently ...

Barack Obama’s Universal Healthcare

time in history it seems that America lagged "behind European countries in finding value in insuring against the costs of sickness...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Obama vs. McCain on Healthcare and Taxes

his country. A two-time congressman and serving his fourth term as a Senator from Arizona, McCain has shed his maverick reputatio...

Creating a Sexual Health Clinic

serve to mentor teens and provide socially positive guidance and support. Diagnostic and screening exams will also be available, b...

Healthcare Industry Phase

of sales (Bergen, 2008). Consumers have accepted products from the sector or the entire industry and, in fact, demand more of them...

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 ...

Affordable Healthcare in Australia

can only be expected to escalate in the near future. Therefore, issues of affordability, in relation to equitable healthcare servi...

Administrative Assistant/Hospital Administration

for top executives of an organization (BoLS, 2008). They also aid physicians and researchers with the preparation of "reports, spe...

HEALTHCARE ECONOMICS: INCREASING INPUTS AND COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS

to go out the window, due to various situations. The healthcare industry is such a one, that may not perform to the usual demands ...