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Health Care Organizations and TQM

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Social Security, Health Care Reform, and Public Policy

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

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

Heathcare Present and Future Concerns

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

Austria's Health Care Financial System Positioning

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...

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...

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)...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

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

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

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

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Health Care and Situational Leadership

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

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

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...

Questions and Answers on Health Care Finance

volume is impacted by the effects of cost and revenues. . Hunt (1996) provides information in regards to cost accounting for a n...

Twenty First Century and Challenges to Health Care

century will be healthier, longer and enriched for more people than ever before. Premature deaths, those that occur prior to age 5...

Technology Questions

In five pages a Q and A format is used to answer 2 questions posed by a student regarding health care professionals and the import...

Abortion Issue and Midwives

unsafe by those who practice the procedure unskilled and unprepared for complications should they arise. So why do women still con...

Uses and Future of the HTML Alternative, XML

which are characteristic of typical Web content" (Why XML, 2001). There are data converters that translate HTML to XML for use, b...

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...

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...

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...

Harry Truman and Bill Clinton on Health Care Reform

- his strategy was turned down. "Though Mr. Clinton promised a simple plan that would guarantee choice along with security, he de...

Great Britain's National Health Service Plan

have been seen as requiring restructuring within the health service. For example, the public research which was conducted in the e...

U.S. Health Care Costs and Reasons for Their Rise

1998, p. 111). Characteristic of a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the nations elderly citizens ...