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In ten pages this paper examines President Bill Clinton's efforts to pass health care reform legislation in a considerations of it...

In eight pages this paper examines the rural hospital economic survival issues the state of Iowa struggles with and the impact of ...

In fourteen pages the past decade of changes in US health care and nursing are discussed in terms of funding and other issues of r...

In five pages this paper discusses health coverage and how hospital stay length is determined due to various types of medical cond...

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

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...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

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

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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