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Obesity and American Health

determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

UK's National Health Services and Decision Making

This position is acknowledged by the government in its document The Expert Patient (DoH, 2002). However, Powers (2002) also points...

Asthma and Public Health Surveillance

effective methods for control in place for asthma and how have treatment measures changed over time? 4. What is the cost of asthm...

Contemporary Women and Sexism

Women At the turn of the century, very few women worked outside of their own home. Many women actually were very intelligent and ...

Health and the Impacts of Psychosocial Factors

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of psychosocial factors upon health. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

Dallas, TX and Obesity Prevention

Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...

Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Maryland Startup of a Home Health Agency

the home health segment of local health care. Owners The owners are two registered nurses (RNs), only one of whom will be a...

U.S. Public Places and a Smoking Ban

So great is the health dangers ETS represents, the United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies ETS as "a group A carc...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Defining and Applying Public Health

innovations as penicillin and automobile seat belts. It encompasses the provisions that are used to insure a safe blood supply an...

Arterial Blood Pressure, Arteriosclerosis, and Hypertension

of atherosclerosis, and the progression of correlated hypertension and myocardial dysfunction (Katz, 1990). The pursuit of conti...

Process of Health Promotion in the Media vs. Peer/Family Influence for Individual Change

be argued, then, that peer and family factors play a major role in how health messages are spread to change at-risk behaviors. Pu...

Health Benefits of Child and Adolescent Exercise

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

Article Review of 'Free Mental Health Benefits for Returning Soldiers'

grant from the Community Health Improvement Fund of the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation (Townsend, 2005). Hence...

Issues of Global Threats and Demographics Involving Healthcare

influenza can pose a severe health risk for older members of a community. This means that not only has there been the providing of...

A Brochure for Women Called Greeting 40

Target audience. Most women are curious about menopause and what it will mean in their lives. Public health messages have been c...

Health Brochure for Women Approaching 40

student can approach this task in the following manner WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW Aging can bring about some very welcome changes, bu...

Project Final Report and Decision Making Methodology

staff meeting. The number of steps and activities required an entire wall and it was immediately clear that the process being used...

Mexican Women's Health and the Impact of Oppression

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the Mexican patriarchy oppression of women impacts their health in a considerati...

Country Overview of Peru

Government officials, the media, educators, and those in commerce use Quechua Spanish. Indians who live in the Andes speak Quechua...

Analysis of Abortion Law Evolution

an 1879 Connecticut state law which made contraception in any form illegal and also forbade the assistance of anyone wishing to us...

Past and Present U.S. Social Services

In ten pages this paper contrasts and compares 1930s' social services programs in America with the programs of today in a consid...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...