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U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

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...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

are several factors to consider when presenting a safety meeting in order to make sure that it is truly helpful and meaningful dur...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

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...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

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...

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...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

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...

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

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...