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Mental Health Hospitalization and Inpatient Services

Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Public Health Management

change will soon be out of business whether it is a public or private organization. It is also true regardless of industry. As Tho...

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...

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...

Mental Health Clients and Increasing Independence

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

UK Electronic Health Records' Implementation

by Actor Network Theory (ANT), therefore, it becomes not only the technical issue of using and discarding information as well as i...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

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 ...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Reflective Learning Document on Safety and Health Policy Formation Information

party where contact may result in exposure of a risk. For a small company with no employees the lessons of the health...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

Public Relations Campaigns, HIV, and AIDS

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

Health of Canadian Aborigines

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

Canada's Tele-Health and E-Health Systems

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

Characteristics of Health Education

2006 edition of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, the editors asked their readers their opinions on issues re...

Establish Ethical Culture in Public Health

2007). It is much better and will have more impact if this training and communication happens in a face-to-face situation and not...

Macroeconomic Effects of the "Public Option"

goal of totally reforming all of US healthcare has been shelved, with the focus now being exclusively on health insurance. The na...

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Health Benefits of Breastfeeding

asthma, cancer, diabetes, and childhood obesity" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). Improved eyesight and children having higher intelligence ...

Electronic Child Health Network - An Analysis

of those "right-time, right-place" solutions for the Hospital for Sick Children, which was spearheading the initiative, the other ...

Family Health Nursing

directly with families in their home, aiding them with complex care situations (Denham, 2003). How has the family changed? In 20...

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...