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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...

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

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

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

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

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

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)...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Assembly Special Session on Children, held in May of 2002, adopted a draft resolution designed to protect the worlds children from...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

or state agencies may seek and implement studies. II. Nursing Home Care for the Elderly Whenever nursing home care is an...

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

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...

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...

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...