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Heath Insurance Coverage and Bariatric Surgery

the long run, providing bariatric surgery is the most efficient answer to this problem as it can result in tremendous net savings ...

Influences on Long Term Healthcare in the US; The Case of Cathedral Rock Corporation

Florida senator Mel Martinez who has introduced the Senior and Taxpayers Obligation Protection (STOP) Act (S. 975) in May 2009 (An...

Background to A Veterans' Association Healthcare Organization

The Oakland organization also plays a key role in aiding veterans to integrate back into the community; this has been seen when se...

The Problem With Socialized Medicine

health care plan. Yet, the HMO does not engage in rationing, but contemporary models of socialized medicine do see waiting lines f...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Global Warming and Sea Level Rise

the Institute for the Study of Planet Earth at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and his colleagues have developed computer mod...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Increasing FDI Levels to Libya

research such as that by the OECD as well as UNCTAD both indicates that there are positive benefits (Erdilek, 2003). In 1995 in a...

Impact of HIV/AIDS on Nursing

noted that cases of a rare lung infection, pneumocystis carinni pneumonia, had occurred in Los Angeles and also that three young m...

Successful Project Management

local health authority, local health care providers, including the health visitors who will be incorporating visits to the SureSta...

Reforming Healthcare by Troubleshooting Ethical Problems

in other developed countries, they are essentially paying twice as much for their services, but not receiving comparable care qual...

Federal Reforms on Lobbying

1946. The main objective of FARA was to regulate the influence of foreign agents - most notably the impact of Nazi propaganda - o...

National Health Care, Choice, and Competition

The second consideration that many dont make, however, regarding the public option is that it would also create competition betwee...

REGULATORY AND ORGANIZATIONAL OVERSIGHT OF GROUND TRANSPORTATION

resulting in more than 6,000 injuries and 900 deaths. Why hasnt more been done on the ground transportation network front...

Healthcare Administration Ethics

cultural understanding. In a study conducted by Rawwas and Isakson on academic cheating, the student-participants "tend to blame...

COMPARING CONSUMER SPENDING IN THE US AND ATLANTA DISTRICT FEDS

poor retail results (Sixth District). Tourism-related spending was also weak, though theme park attendance and cruise bookings wer...

Ethical, Legal Views on Healthcare

expanded upon, specifically, in the Nurse Practice Acts that govern nursing in the individual states. New understanding relations...

Safeguards and Penalties for Improper Use of Data and U.S. Law

to criminal issues were not sufficient to address computer fraud. To an extent, wire and mail fraud issues were addressed in the p...

Healthcare Power and Leadership

to be appropriate for healthcare. Individuals have knowledge and expertise regardless of their level of certification and need to...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

Public Policy and Healthcare

attempts by private institutions have been unsuccessful in addressing a problem. While administrated separately, Moon (2005) not...

Government's Sights on Healthcare Insurance

good first step would be with torte reform so that physicians are not required to order expensive and often unnecessary tests for ...

New Philosophy for Policing

disappeared in the 1960s when the premise was that cops in cars could respond more quickly to an emergency than a police officer o...

Political Processes and Healthcare Regulations

should be political informed by drawing on a variety of sources for information; vote for the candidates and/or ballot issues that...

Leveling the Playing Field with Affirmative Action

This includes not only employer/employee situations, but also school demographics, voter demographics and numerous other arenas wh...

Quality Indicators and Nurse/Patient Ratios

literature and also "analysis of ICD-9-CM codes," which were reviewed by a "clinician panel," offering specific IQs that address i...

HEALTHCARE, FINANCE AND ACCOUNTING

a hospital decides its going to expand its capacity, the management understands it is risking capital to add more beds. But its do...

Term Limits in the Federal System: Pros and Cons

American voters, lack of term limits encourages corruptibility and a lust for power. When introducing his amendment proposal on f...

Medical Informatics

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

AN OVERVIEW OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE REFORM

FY Budget overview for health care reform including Reduction of long-term growth of health care costs being saddled by bus...