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Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Bally's and the Fitness Industry

II. The Gym Industry The health club industry has been shown to be tough during even the most difficult economic times ("Indu...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

American Public Policies

The rate with which healthcare technology has evolved has coupled with demographic changes to result in an extremely taxed system....

Wisdom from Caring for the Caregiver

experience with the technique of visualization. In examining all of these pointers, it will become clear that they can help one ex...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Strategies For Health Counselors

difficult illness to overcome. Although this booklet is written for physicians, any health care professional could use the strateg...

Healthcare and Actor Network Theory

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

Long Beach, California's Department of Health and Human Services

who is responsible to whom (Department of Health and Human Services, About, 1998). Each Bureau has an overall manager who reports ...

Biopsychosocial Model and Health Psychology

the field of psychology and it quickly became a large enough contingent in psychology to have its own division (1999). Health psy...

The Brotherhood of Sleeping Care Porters and A. Philip Randolph

offensive against the union" (Anonymous Biography: Chronology: In Search of A. Philip Randolph, by Juan Williams, 2002; aprbio.htm...

Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Implementation of the Oregon Health Plan

it in a different light to decide if it is truly best for them. SOME DRAWBACKS TO THE PLAN To be sure, the Oregon Health Plan do...

United Kingdom's Age Discrimination and Overcoming It

of the sexes. In the United Kingdom the state pension was available at two different ages, sixty for women and sixty five for men....

United Kingdom and the Inequalities of Social and Health Welfare

care and towards the private sector, which exemplifies the extent to which the welfare state as a whole could be seen as being in ...

Health Insurance and Attitudes of Physicians

under capitation contracts. Because more than fifty percent of physician-hospital organizations have no full-time staff for track...

Research Issues and Actor Network Theory

contribute in practice to the understanding of implementation of the electronic patient record. To undertake this there will be a...

Traditional and Modern Medicine

was sometimes stronger, sometimes weaker depending on the individual. Over the counter medicines do not offer this flexibility. ...

Three Year Old Child's Psychological and Physical Needs

considerable growth and learning, it stands to reason that with the child a veritable sponge of curiosity, he or she will gather a...

Mental Health Therapy and Social Oppression

human perceptions of the world and human interactions in the fields of health care. Oppression is defined as "unequal power relati...

Questions on Aggregate Health and Community

more personal, incorporating "personal health behavior change" (Anderson, Palombo and Earl, 1998; p. 205) as well. 2. What...

Contemporary Workplace Implications of Occupational Health and Safety Training

to worker perception of workplace safety. It can be contended, therefore, that employees will either refuse to work in an environ...

Community Concept

by any number of characteristics used for grouping individuals. These characteristics can include geography, relationships, cultu...

The Necessity of Mandatory Drug Testing

Constitutional, and whether or not employers and school superintendents will be barred from implementing drug testing remains to b...

NYC Health Club Proposal, The Six Moons Gym

the body to do it in style. Indeed, people of all ages, socioeconomic levels, and of both genders are flocking to health clubs to ...

Pediatric Burn Care and High Acuity Nursing

or other special attention to the wounds caused by burns. Each day s/he spends in the hospital is creating another reason for the...

Community Nursing and the Effects of Primary Care Trusts and the UK National Service Standards

the emphasis to more localised care with the primary health care trusts holding more of a an administrative and strategic role. ...