YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Health Care Reform by Paul Starr
Essays 601 - 630
struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...
But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...
on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...
Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...
Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...
Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...
trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...
both agree to an extent. In any event, the point is that both talk the talk and whether or not they will if elected implement such...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...
How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...
goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...
at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...
scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...
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...
them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...
with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...
has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...
workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...
patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...
the led. These distinctions depend on the ability to distinguish voluntary from involuntary compliance and to assess goal compati...
were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...