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dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

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

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

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

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

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

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

workers rights are in as much a quagmire as womens rights. So what is the solution? Identifying that poverty is one of the underl...

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...