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Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

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

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Risks and Opportunities in Public Health Provision

will have suitable clothing compared to areas that are not acclimatised that the lower temperatures (Sanders, 2010). Where severe ...

What Are The Differences Between Leaders and Managers

(1989), a management guru suggested that a succinct explanation is that managers are people who do things right and leaders are pe...

Borderless Societies: The Environmental Impacts

the 21st century has exerted a major impact on all areas of life, particularly through the process of globalization. As globalizat...

Health Insurance Costs - A Nuanced View

purchase health insurance at the same cost as those without such conditions? Why or why not? The question of whether or not indi...

HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

Demand for Cigarettes and the Impact of Taxation

of tobacco usage and the tobacco industry has changed dramatically. While cigarettes were once an ubiquitous part of American "hig...

Disaster Planning and Response

The writer reviews the document “Dimensions of Crisis Impacts: Humanitarian Needs by 2015” and considers some of the potential pro...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Stem Cell Research and Telemedicine

and scientific research, general regulations prohibiting the cloning of humans for reproductive purposes have been applied interna...

Implementing Electronic Health Records in the US

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

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"...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Advanced Practice Nursing, Focus on Florida

This research paper offers an overview of issues pertaining to advanced nursing practice and the impact of advance practice nurses...

Interpersonal Communication Intervention, Article Analysis

This research paper offers an overview of a study that was instigated by Keating and colleagues (2012). This study focused on the...

Taking Control of Our Health

Personal health and welfare is dependent on a number of factors. Some of these factors are things that you cannot control. Some...

Overview of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

the signs of illness in order to maintain prolonged contact with healthcare providers (Criddle, 2010). History and Statistics Ph...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Indonesian Sanitation

This research paper discusses the work of Almud Weitz (2009) and how it pertains to the problem of personal sanitation behaviors i...

The Importance of Effective Assessment and Treatment in Cases of Alcohol Toxicity

The author defines alcohol toxicity and its impacts to human health. There are three sources in this three page paper. ...

Benefits to Health, Vegetarian Diets

This research paper discusses current research that reveals vegetarian diet to have a positive impact on health. Three pages in le...

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 Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Issues

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...