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United Kingdom's White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

Ethical Issues in Mental Health Care Practice

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

Public Relations Campaigns, HIV, and AIDS

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...

Australia and Medicare

the poorest communities, in terms of income level, have the lowest standard of health: a group which practises low-risk behaviours...

Scholastic Issues

with a few of the students laughed. Most of the students did not even see Sam trip but, typical to Sam,...

Doha Development Agreement and the Effects of the Sixth World Trade Organization's Ministerial Meeting

board context was the agreement for further negotiation to take place with the aim of increased trade liberalisation and the devel...

Nursing and the Culture of Japan

and individuality as young children, they begin to assimilate their role in Japanese culture via such conventions as school unifor...

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

The Education of Sub-Saharan Women/A Research Proposal

Nutritional needs will be a part of the effort. The hypothesis is that "educating women will empower them making them less ...

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

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

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

The Five Major Principles of the Canadian Health Act of 1984

the CHA. For example, in the western province of Alberta, Premier Ralph Klein has dealt wit the decline in federal funds by author...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Global Economy and Health Care

is the best product, [healthcare providers] will just use a cheaper product, and then if it doesnt work, theyll go to your product...

Funding Universal Health Care

to keep in mind is the United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not have some sort of national unive...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

The Social Issue Of Health And Mental Health

concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...

North American Free Trade Organization's Histographical Report

as become a catalyst for "heightening competitive market forces" (Anonymous PG). NAFTA was created as a means by which North Amer...

Reaction Paper/Public Health Readings/Videos

individuals contact ring, smallpox could be halted with available resources, making the seemingly impossible, possible. Similarl...

E-Health and Women's Hypertension

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

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

Topics for a Course in Health

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...

Staffing the VA Outpatient Clinic

and a domiciliary residence for homeless veterans (Mountain Home VA Medical Center, n.d.); the Knoxville CBOC frequently sends its...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Public Health/Then & Now

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

Childhood Obesity

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...

Heart Disease Prevention and the Role of a Canadian Nurse

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...