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Fragmented Systems and Managed Care

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

Human Behavior, Psychological, Sociological, and Biological FActors on Mental Health Care Delivery

promote recovery and to "replace unnecessary institutional care with efficient, effective community service that people can count ...

Health Care Pharmacists and How They Have Evolved

been favorable to increased privileges for pharmacists. This trend towards increased privileges are certainly understandable give...

Roy Adaptation Model, Hospice Care, and Application of Zen Philosophy

In this way, Buddhism became accessible to all, and was able to develop the concept of community which...

Health Care and Issues of Ethics

are almost always upheld by the courts. Nevertheless, this does not give government unlimited power to dictate public behavior, as...

Health Care, Data Security, and Legislation

of a celebritys medical information and so on, there has been prompt attention to security by the law. There are many situations ...

Human Resource Management and Issues of Employee Safety, Health, and Wellness

almost inevitably linked with high levels of stress, and therefore tends to be counter-productive when assessed in terms of the me...

Contract Payment Alternatives and HMOs

same basic framework. If specific fees are determined contractually and the HMO remains solvent, then there is little risk associ...

Community Nursing Partnership Rewards and Threats

a partnership approach where the discipline work together can be increased cost effectiveness in the overall treatment of a patien...

Training Results Improvement and Action Research

sustainability movements reveals that addressing stakeholder needs can enhance the departments effectiveness. Laszlo (2003) write...

Data Analyst for Public Health

also knew that issues would be prioritized more effectively if data analysis is both current and longitudinal (New York State Depa...

Overview of Home Health Nursing Field

as business practices, documentation systems, process flows and lines of communication can differ (Blevins, 2001) Home health nur...

United States and German Health Care: A Comparison

among the best in the world, with figures of 83.0 years for women and 79.6 years for men, while the United States has an average l...

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

The Health Care Systems in Israel and Venezuela

There are similarities in health care delivery in Israel and Venezuela. however, there are significant differences. This ten page ...

HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

A Plan to Reduce Obesity

intake and the general type of diet which is consumed and the need for a nutritional balance physical activity is also an importan...

Three Leadership Styles Compared

reciprocating" (p. 169). Transactional leaders tend to live by certain values. These include honesty, integrity, fairness and acc...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

Health Care Marketing - A Binary Approach

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Health Care Ethics and Tort Law

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

Obesity in Brooklyn

formed in 2003 to push forward clinical research (NIH, 2010). National measures have been undertaken, but they need to be suppor...

Demand for Cigarettes and the Impact of Taxation

of tobacco usage and the tobacco industry has changed dramatically. While cigarettes were once an ubiquitous part of American "hig...

Pregnancy among Central Illinois Adolescents

study of the distribution and determinants of health-related states or events in human populations and the application of this stu...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...