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Building on the work of William Farr, Jacques Bertillon, the chief statistician for the city of Paris, devised a revised classific...

years ago," and since then, these studies have replicated often enough and with the same results to make denying this connection n...

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

gender equality has come to reflect equity of human rights, as well. This Western ideology, however, has not infiltrated those gl...

in the US. Likewise, diabetes-associated nephropathy, a progressive disorder of the kidney, is the leading cause of end stage rena...

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

allergies. He has never been involved in a serious industrial or automobile accident (Physical assessment, 2007). He is not taking...

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...

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

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...

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

reported that periodontal disease is a cause of low birth weight. Delta Dental stated their research suggests that oral infections...

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

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

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...

of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...