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Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

Obesity in Brooklyn

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...

Demand for Cigarettes and the Impact of Taxation

of tobacco usage and the tobacco industry has changed dramatically. While cigarettes were once an ubiquitous part of American "hig...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

TECHNOLOGY AND HOME HEALTH CARE

patients are in the hospital, using those resources that could be dedicated toward more serious problems). They also mean patients...

United States and German Health Care: A Comparison

among the best in the world, with figures of 83.0 years for women and 79.6 years for men, while the United States has an average l...

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

Three Leadership Styles Compared

reciprocating" (p. 169). Transactional leaders tend to live by certain values. These include honesty, integrity, fairness and acc...

The Health Care Industry and Electronic Communication

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

Health Care Ethics and Tort Law

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

Health Care Marketing - A Binary Approach

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Heroic Medical Treatment of Death Row Inmates

life but do not choose to execute them are "ensuring the deaths of a large number of innocent people. On moral grounds, a choice t...

The Development of a Marketing Stratagem for McDonald's

and fries had all been there for more than two decades and Chicken nuggets were introduced in 1980 (McDonalds, 2010). In any mark...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...

Nursing Cultural Competence

and Cultural Competency in Health Care: An Australian Study by Megan-Jane Johnstone and Olga Kanitsaki. * Abstract; The authors p...

Universal Health Care Is a Good Idea

contention to violent confrontation. This is incredible, since nonpartisan agencies have repeatedly said that without reform, heal...

New York Public Health - An Overview

the belief that our society as a whole will benefit if we are able to provide sufficient health care to all. Based on what you alr...

Health Care Economics and Funding in the United States - A History

the consideration of dozens of microeconomic systems that operate as a function of the national macroeconomic picture. It is often...

Risks and Opportunities in Public Health Provision

will have suitable clothing compared to areas that are not acclimatised that the lower temperatures (Sanders, 2010). Where severe ...

Program to Promote Good Mental Health in a Refugee Community

not just to the move, but the circumstances under which the individual became a refugee. In general terms for all migrants the pot...

To Your Health

of wine-making," though finds in Turkey indicate wine was made there as early as the "late third millennium B.C." (Berkowitz). Ho...

Borderless Societies: The Environmental Impacts

the 21st century has exerted a major impact on all areas of life, particularly through the process of globalization. As globalizat...

Online Health Information: Concerns of Validity

As far back as 1996, it had become clear that while the internet could offer up some kind of information on just about every topic...

Problems with Abuse and Neglect of the Elderly

paper properly! While two million older adults are abused in America each year, only 2% of these cases are reported by phy...

Electronic Health Records: The Advantages of Implementation

commonly referred to as EHR for sake of brevity, are helping to redefine and revolutionize the health care industry. In an industr...

The Re-designing of Job Specifications

more of a smaller part of each task, to increase efficiency, this is an approach that is linked to the efficiency approach. The r...