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with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...
dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...
Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...
without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...
health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
to worker perception of workplace safety. It can be contended, therefore, that employees will either refuse to work in an environ...
Its effect is to reduce the atmosphere of paternalism that has pervaded medicine. Dorothy Orems self care model is particularly a...
the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...
from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...
patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...
U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...
at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...
process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...
issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...
responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...
the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...
government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...
at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...
Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...
a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...
back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...
characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...
not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...
at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...
(p. 835) among Medicaid residents of Massachusetts nursing homes between 1991 and 1994. This mixed method (i.e., quantitative as ...