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Case Study of an Older Adult

This research paper focuses on Betsy, a 79-year-old woman who has lost interest in normal activities and lost close to 20 pounds o...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke on Children

risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke: even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to peoples health"...

Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

HEALTH CARE AND FUTURE TRENDS

that telemedicine is already having an impact on how healthcare is being delivered (Kohler, 2008). Kohler points out that technolo...

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

The Impact of Tax on Supply and Demand

good, but it is up increase on the price at which you will have to pay to obtain a good. The price of the goods increases from the...

Benzene

not only industrial in nature, they include those that have direct consumer contact. Some dental adhesives and even soft drinks, ...

A Case Study to Demonstrate Influences on the Delivery of Mental Healthcare

influences can be broken down into political, economic, social and technological. Political influences are one of the most importa...

Multicultural Instruction/Health & PE

direct impact on students attitudes toward both physical education and health-related behaviors (Stetzer, 2005, p. 26). By underst...

Research Paper on Alcoholism

C, and HIV (Health Effects 2). It can also cause nutritional issues, lead to alcohol poisoning, cause psychological problems, and...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Research Issues and Actor Network Theory

contribute in practice to the understanding of implementation of the electronic patient record. To undertake this there will be a...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Health Care and Economics Principles

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

HIPAA and its Impact

Someone with a chronic disease like diabetes would have to shell out hundreds of dollars each month for supplies if they choose to...

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

The Global Health Problems Posed to Asian Children by AIDS

women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

State Systems and the Effects of Globalization

effortlessly leap once imposing territorial and cultural borders which can have major consequences on state "sovereignty, prosperi...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

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 ...

Impacts of Tobacco Evaluated

"tobacco kills more than 125,000 American women, mostly through cigarette-induced heart disease, lung cancer, and other lung...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

Psychoneuroimmunology and the Connection Between the Body and Mind

Those who continue to be exposed to high levels of stress for prolonged periods of time end up being distressed. The authors state...

Social Classes and Health Care

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...