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Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

2 Nursing Paradigm Models

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

Cuba and Healthcare

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

Database Management Systems for Health Care Call Center

large advertising budgets for the purpose of attracting new customers, but many need to place more attention on keeping the custom...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

Alberta, Canada, and Health Care Privatization Issues

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Culturally Competent Care/Duke University Health System

could be applied towards unmet standards. Culturally competent care at Duke University Health System It has been determined by ...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

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

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

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

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

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 ...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

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

Veterans' Health Care

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

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

System of National Health Care and the U.S.

51% ("Health Insurance," 1997, p.PG) of the 31 million Americans who have no insurance, maintaining that they do not carry it simp...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...