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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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

In five pages this paper focuses upon British Columbia in a consideration of rising costs of Canadian health care and facilities t...

In fifteen pages this paper will examine what qualifies as decent management when it comes to health care operations. Two sources...

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the health care setting in an examination of the advanced practice nurse or nurse practition...

In ten pages this paper examines the issues involving health care professionals and insurance companies as they relate to HMO and ...

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...

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

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

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

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...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...