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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...

Public Health/Then & Now

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

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

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...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

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

AIDS, Health Care Privatization, and International Expectations

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

Overview of Public Health Services

through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...

HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

Electronic Child Health Network - An Analysis

of those "right-time, right-place" solutions for the Hospital for Sick Children, which was spearheading the initiative, the other ...

Health Care Delivery in the United States

Impact of the Health Care Delivery System on the Availability of Health Education Services in the United States...

Regulating Health Care Professionals in Rhode Island

"minimum standards for licensing, vehicles, equipment for vehicles, personnel, training, communications and the treatment of acute...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Public Health Management

change will soon be out of business whether it is a public or private organization. It is also true regardless of industry. As Tho...

Safety and Health Program Implementation

In six pages this paper examines how an administrative organization can implement a safety and health program with references made...

Yemen, United Kingdom, and United States Healthcare Delivery Systems

In five pages this paper examines Yemen's Ministry of Health, the UK's National Health Service, and the US's Medicaid in a compara...

How Health and Social Influences May Prevent Economic Development

corruption have prospered. Therefore, corruption alone cannot be seen as a source of constraint. Sachs (2006) notes that the per c...

Home Health Care Marketing

In five pages this paper examines how to market home health care with a local marketer interviewed and a community facility that f...

A Qualitative Assessment of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital's Online Web Portal

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

Record-Keeping and the Role of DHHS

reason why pharmacies can sell personal information has to do with a loophole in HIPAA ("HIPAA Loophole Allows Pharmacies To Sell...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

Assessment Findings with Diagnoses Summarized

county-wide efforts to identify, seek out and serve the needs of the countys older population. Of course many locales have center...

Affordability of Health Insurance Letter to U.S. Senator Bill Frist

approach to health care for themselves and all Americans. Demographics of The Most Needy...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

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...

Childhood Obesity

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

1995 Plan for Health Care Savings

In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...