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Healthcare and Actor Network Theory

regulations, as well as the users ability and the constraints of any equipment that is being used. These different factors all com...

Implementation of the Oregon Health Plan

it in a different light to decide if it is truly best for them. SOME DRAWBACKS TO THE PLAN To be sure, the Oregon Health Plan do...

United Kingdom's Age Discrimination and Overcoming It

of the sexes. In the United Kingdom the state pension was available at two different ages, sixty for women and sixty five for men....

Long Beach, California's Department of Health and Human Services

who is responsible to whom (Department of Health and Human Services, About, 1998). Each Bureau has an overall manager who reports ...

Obesity and its Many Costs

of people without health care insurance than in years past. As the economy worsens and the US slides into recession, we can expec...

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...

Mental Health Programs and Questionnaires

developed and administered properly. Where surveys can fall flat is when respondents cant be bothered to respond because the surve...

Misconduct in Scientific Cases

biphenyls" combined to prove up to "1000 times more potent in mimicking estrogen when tested in combination" (ORI casesummaries.as...

Patient Care and Individual Differences

and sustaining without yielding, they contend that bearing is a reaction which is more passive than coping but an activity which p...

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 ...

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...

Senior Citizens and Influenza

et al, 1999). It is not uncommon for people to treat their symptoms as a cold, overcome the initial attack and then appear to fal...

Asian American Senior Citizens and Their Counseling Needs

is nonlinear and the cultural effects on elderly living arrangements persist longer than expected, especially as it concerns mode...

Economic Health of France and England During the 1980s and 1990s

by the mid-eighties. Many went back to school, others found jobs in other sectors. The time of large scale production facilities a...

Smoking Cigarettes

on advertising campaigns promoting cigarettes. Smoking was depicted as sophisticated and adult, and considered a normal part of ev...

Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

that has always been associated with the civilization of a society. Yet, it appears that once a society is considered civilized it...

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...

Airline Industry After Terrorist Attacks of 2001

spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Health and Illness Interpretations

shows how Vivian uses her poetry as a means for tenaciously clinging to her identity as a person. However, it also becomes clear t...

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

Economics and Health Care

can add to scarcity, such as time and income (Schenk, 2004). Furthermore, resources are limited, such as manpower, machinery and n...

Nursing and the Impact of 1996's Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act

in 2000, allowing a long comment period before the final rule was issued in February 2003. Five rules were published in 199...

Social, Physical, and Mental Health and Their Value

problem can affect and be affected by mental processes and social interaction. A common problem that will serve particularly well...

Health Impact of Sugar in Infant and Toddler Diets

is nonstop crying, usually caused by gas cramps (Does Your Baby Need a Diet?, 1993, p. 9). When the sugar in these infants formul...

The Literature as a Lesson in Community Health Care

Effective community nursing demands a familiarity with the culture, subculture, and/or socioeconomic group being attended....

Mapping the Mental Health Consequences of Childhood Sexual Abuse

impact how a person perceives the counseling relationship, how they react to certain situations, and how they define their persona...

The Health Issue of Legalizing Physician Assisted Suicide

including Oregon, in order to secure the legal rights of the dying to seek out assistance in their death. While states like Orego...

Article Overview of 'Nursing Workload Measurements in the Acute Mental Health Inpatient Units'

The methodology utilized in the study by OBrien is quantitative and includes an assessment of a review of literature, the developm...

Family Health Intervention and Nursing Diagnosis

condition, her lack of awareness of her own limitations or lack of limitations in activity, and her response to various types of p...