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Health Care Governance - Three Studies

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

Healthcare Needs Assessment Assessed

approach, more specific health issue of the monitories may be ignored. The development of the report requires the of a range of ...

Ethnic Minority Children's Health Care and the Leeds' Report

repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Connection Between Service Utilization, Health Status, and General Community Health

As they take on more and more prescription drugs, driving becomes problematic. With a myriad of symptoms, diagnoses, and reduced m...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Concepts of Mental Health

In five pages this paper discusses wellness and considers various concepts related to mental health and how good mental health can...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

Health Care Market and Price Elasticity

is reliant on complimentary products, such as cars sales may be affected by the sale of petrol a cross-elasticity may exist. In me...

Health and Life Insurance Issues

In five pages this paper discusses health care costs and workers' compensation in a consideration of health and life insurance iss...

'Unraveling the Mystery of Health' by Aaron Antonovsky

events in life. Antonovsky suggests that a sense of coherence is an essential factor in the maintenance of health. In his "salu...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

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

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Culture, Sexism, and Racism Issues as They Relate to Women's Health

of women in the medical field, attitudes appear to be altering. Practices are slower to change, however, womens health advocates ...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

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

OSHA Regulations and Nursing Workplace Violence

any given time, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics has deemed that health care and social service employees are subject to a highe...

Health Club and Gym Membership Reasons and Benefits

In five pages the reasons behind and benefits of belonging to a gym or health club are examined in terms of physical appearance, h...

Pharmaceutical Industry and the WHO

In fourteen pages this paper discusses the global pharmaceutical industry and the World Health Organization's efforts to combat va...

Assessment Findings with Diagnoses Summarized

county-wide efforts to identify, seek out and serve the needs of the countys older population. Of course many locales have center...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

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

China's Health Problems and Solutions

In eight pages this paper discusses possible solutions to China's health problems and includes such topics as aging, women and env...

Home Health Care Marketing

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

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

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

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

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

The Education of Sub-Saharan Women/A Research Proposal

Nutritional needs will be a part of the effort. The hypothesis is that "educating women will empower them making them less ...

Medicare, Health Care Issues, and the Presidential Election of 2004

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