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Essays 301 - 330
Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...
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...
(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...
eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...
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...
and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...
E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...
now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...
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...
actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...
In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...
regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...
would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...
(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...
this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...
This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...
in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...
apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...
hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...
markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...
those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...
cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...
those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...
workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...
families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...
factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...
healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...
of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...