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Oral Health is Linked to Overall Health

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

Public Health in Haiti; A Research Proposal

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...

Water And Air Pollution Plan

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

Spirituality & Religion in Counseling

to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Topics for a Course in Health

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

Health Education Teaching Strategies

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Comprehensive Health History, 65-year-old Male

allergies. He has never been involved in a serious industrial or automobile accident (Physical assessment, 2007). He is not taking...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Five Models of Personality as it Relates to Health

most advantageously. Neither is there any consistency in the types of personality and coping responses that least effectively dea...

Mold in the Home

years ago," and since then, these studies have replicated often enough and with the same results to make denying this connection n...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

QUALITY IMPROVEMENT INITIATIVES AND HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS

a supplier to the industry (i.e., a third-party payor) might consider cost containment as important to quality, while the patient ...

Canada's Health Care System

services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...

Aspects Of Universal Health Care In U.S.

Canadians must also pay for dental and vision costs. Dental problems can lead to other health problems and diseases. The desired...

Health Care Pricing and Costs

The actual cost of production of the 100th package of Microsoft Word(r) certainly was not the $500 it sold for at retail in the ea...

Health Care Services Case Study

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

Health Promotion

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

Universal Health Care

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

Health Care Communication

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

Urban Black Male Adolescents

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

The Impact of Changes in Demography, Industrial Structure and Labor Market on the Health of Workers

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

Ethics Of Managed Care

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

Obesity Community Health Intervention

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...