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President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

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

Health Care and Economics Principles

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

Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

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

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Canada's Immigrant Women, Prenatal and Postnatal Health Care

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

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

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 ...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

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...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

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

Enteric Feeds and Health Organization Policy

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

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

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

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

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

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

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

Global Economy and Health Care Industry

In five pages this paper focuses upon technology in a discussion of the global economy and the entry of the health care industry. ...

CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE IN KENYA

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

Health Care Staff Shortages

nurses by 2012 to eliminate the shortage (Rosseter, 2009). By 2020, the District of Columbia along with at least 44 states will ha...

Portland Oregon and Its Policies with Regard to the Uninsured

County Health Department, 2009). It appears from this brief examination that the City of Portland depends on the County for its pu...

BUNDLED PAYMENTS AND CHANGE IN HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

This 10-page paper discusses how bundled payments might impact health care delivery in rehabilitation and physical medicine while ...

FUTURE TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE

days, thanks to technology and the Internet, distance treatment is being used more and more in the delivery of health care service...

Health Care in California Prisons

health problems than the general population," meaning that health care is a priority even before the individual enters the facilit...

Is Health Care A Right Or Privilege

pain, our pursuit of happiness is certainly limited. In effect, we are deprived of the most fundamental of all fundamental rights ...

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...

Health Care Three Ways

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

Redesigning Jobs After a Merger

reveals these are two of their primary complaints (Koprowski, 2003). For example, the managers may offer nurses in this newly-merg...

Billing, Coding and Reimbursement in the Health Care Field

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

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

Focusing on Process Involvement Rather than Individual Error in the Health Care Workplace

safety culture; hereafter "Trust thrives"). The culture is based on understanding and trust, and is further supported by a system ...

E-Health, Telemedicine and Impact

abreast of new developments in their field without information management tools. On any average day, there are "55 new clinical tr...

Questions in Health Care Management

that the hospital or medical facility is aware of new offerings in terms of systems development. Further, in respect to human reso...

Practical Applications Of Simulations In Nursing Education

"low-fidelity, moderate-fidelity, and high-fidelity" (Sportsman et al., 2009, p. 67). Low-fidelity are introductory, moderate-fide...

Gilded Era/Welfare Reform & The Elderly And Privacy

or people at risk, a handful of businessmen capitalized upon opportunity by what those like Heilbroner et al (1998) believe to be ...