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Improving Health Outcomes in the Elderly

In a paper of five pages, the author reviews strategies to improve health outcomes by reducing barriers to health promotoin progra...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Los Angeles Air Pollution and Healthy People 2010

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

Improving the Mental and Physical Health of Hispanic Adolescents

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Hispanic Students Health

This 3 page paper provides a discussion of a few methods proposed to improve the health of Hispanics of adolescent age. This paper...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

Connectivity, External and Internal Drive Bays

front panel." Kozierok (2001) also explains that the term "external drive bay" is a "bit of a misnomer" in that the term ex...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Function of Information Technology in Decision Making

This informative research paper first describes the decision making process and then how information technology (IT) fits into thi...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Canada's Regionalized Health Care System

others did not. Alberta was one province that did not comply and they lost $3.5 million of federal funding (Clement, 2007). After ...

Health Factors Influencing Quality of Life

especially in at-risk populations, can reduce the level of disability and "compress" it into a shorter period close to the end of ...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

The Elderly and Mental Health

This essay presents a discussion on mental health practice and the elderly, focusing on the biases of the student as a mental heal...

Program to Reduce Number of Medications Taken

As people grow older they tend to develop multiple physical illnesses and sometimes, mental illnesses or mental health problems. T...

Introducing Technology - Smoking Cessation Program

This is a followup paper to a proposal to implement a smoking cessation program in a mental health hospital. In this essay, a heal...

Health Outcomes and SES

This research paper describes research findings that indicate the relationship between health outcomes and low socioeconomic statu...

Nursing-Sensitive Outcome Indicators

nursing quality of care" (Hart, et al, 2006, p. 256). These indicators specifically indicate that complications, such as pressure ...

Spirituality & Religion in Counseling

to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...

Putting Kolcaba's Theory of Comfort in Practice

a peaceful death among terminal patients. HSBs of specific groups of any size - whether large or small - are positively related t...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Canada's Health Care System

services to their residents. The system is intended to provide access to medically necessary services to each person. In the lat...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

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

One Corporate Health Program for Employees

Improving the health of employees is a valuable endeavor because the healthier they are the more productive they are. Johnson & Jo...

Health Care for Immigrants - An Evaluative Argument

the beginning of the 2012 election season fast approaching, it is to be expected that the topic of immigration is going to come in...

The Effects of Long-Term Unemployment

persons health" (Tickner). The implication of this survey is of political interest; says Tickner: "Disparaging attacks on long ter...

Survey of a New Jersey Neighborhood

This 8 page paper discusses the findings of a survey done to assess the health and conditions of a New Jersey neighborhood. This p...

Addressing the Needs of Women Veterans

examination of the describes the bills intended goals and outcomes regarding their achievement of greater social equality and reso...

Threats Which May Influence Whether The Objectives Of The Healthy People 2020 Program Are Achieved In Calumet

City, Illinois Improving the health of a nation is a difficult task. Different areas have different problems, and the macro envir...