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Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

Social Work and a Career in Public Health

to cope with chronic, acute or terminal illness, such as Alzheimers disease, cancer or AIDS" (U.S. Department of Labor). In additi...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

Cultural Influences on Medical Care; Indian Hindus

is in charge of all domestic affairs. Younger newly wed couples will often live with one set of parents, even if they are going to...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Behavioral Health and Accountability Revisions of the Hartley and Medley Cases

viable solution to the new approach was creating group homes where several developmentally disabled or mentally retarded could liv...

Process of Helping

do alone" (p. 1). Keith-Lucas differentiates between what the helper does, which is an action, and to what use the person being he...

Controlled Study of Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease in Children and Oral Health

is clear that the issue, as Linnet et al state, merits further investigation. Lazarchik and Filler (1997) point out that dental er...

The Importance of Forensic Nursing

departments (Courson, 2004). It isnt that nurses have not been serving in these roles, they have but today, nurses receive speci...

Community Nursing Issue Regarding HIV in Black Males and 2010 Objectives

in African American communities in though it has level off and is falling in other US populations (Dyer, 2003). Adolescents are am...

Overview of Inuit Youth and Problems They Face

by 2016, is young, with 60% under age 25 (Inuit health status). The Inuit are a "circumpolar" people, with a shared culture and l...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Crisis in Health Care and the HMO Model

wider array of coverage options so that all patients would be treated well. In essence, while people cannot choose any doctor they...

Health Care Management Effectiveness

can easily lead to misunderstandings and even conflict. Delegation is a skill many new managers lack. There are many reasons mana...

Comparative Analysis of Health Care Systems in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States

Medicare/Medicaid faces an increasing number of recipients and a decreasing number of contributors. Alonso-Zaldivar (2005, pg A14...

Patient Scenario on Stroke Examination

affect patient outcomes (Finley, 2004). The degree to which Mr. Smith will be affected by the stroke, and, indeed, his very survi...

Gay Lifestyle's Socioeconomic Costs

is done. Some might be curious about homosexual sex. In part, these explorations are encouraged by media. Jenkins (2005) charges f...

Rehabilitation and Acute Stroke Units

ensuring that a significant proportion of stroke victims survive and retain their independence. This is important not only from th...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Stem Cell Research: Wave Of The Future

acceptability; however, this is not enough reason to postpone the favorable results that have already been discovered as the ethic...

Global Trends in the Restaurant Industry

of ten may not survive for more than five years (Thompson, 2005). Social caters have a very small part of the market, this is als...

Article Critique/Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines

a concise, but thorough description of the study that certainly will engage the interest of any healthcare professional researchin...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Financial Trend Analysis in Healthcare

and Adnan Kisa (2006, July-September). Wasteful use of financial resources in public hospitals in Turkey: a trend analysis. The...

Health Care Management in North Carolina

cited any firms in North Carolina. Are there similar firms in the state? One could surmise that perhaps there is an absence of thi...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Strategies For Health Counselors

difficult illness to overcome. Although this booklet is written for physicians, any health care professional could use the strateg...

Health Care Economics And Experimental Surgery

in turn, gives the country a competitive edge in an increasingly larger global economy (Still, 2006). This includes expenditures f...