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Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

Culture, Sexism, and Racism Issues as They Relate to Women's Health

of women in the medical field, attitudes appear to be altering. Practices are slower to change, however, womens health advocates ...

'Unraveling the Mystery of Health' by Aaron Antonovsky

events in life. Antonovsky suggests that a sense of coherence is an essential factor in the maintenance of health. In his "salu...

Health and Life Insurance Issues

In five pages this paper discusses health care costs and workers' compensation in a consideration of health and life insurance iss...

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Health Care Market and Price Elasticity

is reliant on complimentary products, such as cars sales may be affected by the sale of petrol a cross-elasticity may exist. In me...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

Concepts of Mental Health

In five pages this paper discusses wellness and considers various concepts related to mental health and how good mental health can...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Dignity and Privacy Issues

regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...

Health of Canadian Aborigines

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

Health Promotion and the Positive Impact of Education

In five pages this paper considers health promotion, illiteracy, and the positive impact of education as a way of solving global h...

Partnership Between WHO and the Pharmaceuticals Industry

In fifty pages this paper discusses the necessary collaboration between the World Health Organization and the pharmaceuticals indu...

Health Services Integration

In sixteen pages this paper examines the changes to U.S. health care in a review of 3 articles pertaining to the integration of he...

Pontiac, Michigan and African Americans County Public Health Outreach Services

In ten pages this paper discusses a county public health outreach program for African Americans who have been consistently denied ...

New Hampshire's House Bill 672

In seven pages this paper discusses New Hampshire's efforts to correct health benefits inequities with its introduction of House B...

Medicaid Laws of New York State

In nine pages the Family Health Plus and Health Care Reform Act of 2000 are among the topics discussed in a consideration of New Y...

Leadership in Health Care

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

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...

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...