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SWOT Analysis of Oxford Health Plans Inc.

are affiliated with 32 hospitals. MedSpan, Inc., has 51,00 commercial members and 22,000 self-funded, members. The acquisition exp...

Connection Between Health and Fitness

Strength training has been found to have remarkable benefits for persons of all ages, although it must be approached with care and...

Albert Ellis, William Glasser, and Sigmund Freud

during the 19th century, Sigmund Freud managed to be one of the first to actually map the subconscious as a key to the motivations...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

Mental Health Services and Recovery Focus Programs

know that back then. Back then we shut people away. We didnt understand mental illness, we just put them out of sight"(Sawyer). ...

Mental Health Industry Audit

significant changes to the existing system but have not yet covered too much ground where modifications are concerned. This is pa...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Great Britain's NHS

time, war-torn Britain was used to rationing and poverty, and most of the population welcomed the idea of a national health servic...

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...

Questions on Aggregate Health and Community

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

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...

Literature Review of Terminal Cancer Patients and Hospital Care Quality

is important to note aspects of hospitalization which are perceived by patients dying of cancer as negative experiences that incre...

Dangers of the West Nile Virus to Humans and Animals

horses - just as susceptible as their human counterparts. Symptoms in people include flu-like discomfort, which may turn into ase...

Goals and Mental Health Nursing

Frank seems reluctant to leave. Realizing that Frank needs to be met on a different level, Susan switches back to the "Be-with" mo...

Causes and Conditions of Homelessness

money to pay for food, rent, and other basic necessities. Today, more Americans than ever have jobs," but still "a growing number ...

Research Study Development on Hospice Care and Its Medicare Benefits

America, not the least of which is hospice care. Even funding sources of the magnitude of Medicare and private insurers have come ...

Health Promotion in a Dental Office

It can begin with a general cleaning and assessment of the condition of the new patients oral health, progressing to addressing ca...

Patient Welfare, Health, and the Family Nurse Practitioner

so often work today. The first issue which will be discussed for the purposes of this paper is that of environment. This...

Overview of Health Psychology

in health psychology has focused on three core questions: 1.) who gets sick and why do they get sick; 2.) of those who get sick, w...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit Nursing Retention

the chaos," she said (Serafini 1490). This nurse further stated that sometimes ER nurses are called to the intensive care unit for...

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...

Health Issue of Violence

global problem as it is estimated that over 40 million children worldwide are abused each year. Violence within the family and edu...

Internet Safety Protection of Children

made us more aware of the need to be discerning when gathering and assimilating some of the information that the Internet provides...

Western Pennsylvania's UPMC Health System Presentation

UPMCs presence in the local market prevents Highmark from indiscriminately increasing health insurance premiums across the board. ...

Patient Care and the Adaptation Model of Callista Roy

All care is the responsibility of the medical team with which these patients have surrounded themselves. It is the patients respo...