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Mental Health of Returning Soldiers

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

Health Promotion in the Workplace

newspapers, such as the Chicago Tribune, announced that it would apply a "monthly surcharge of $100 to family premiums" in cases w...

Nurses Knowledge of Prevention Strategies for Constipation in Elderly Patients who are Bed Bound: A Health Promotion Study

of different causative factors (Clinician Reviews, 2007; Hunter et al, 2002). Extrapolated prevalence rates for constipation in t...

Four Research Articles on Health Issues

HSNI was that it was difficult for individuals to do at home, and many required treatment in a doctors office. As a result, instr...

"The Gift Of Therapy" By Irvin D. Yalom, M.D.: Reactionary Report

a wide range of mental illnesses plague a considerable percentage of the general population, the authors apprehension about the le...

Nursing Leadership Scenario

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

Regression Analysis Using Health Statistics

proportion of the population in a country which are living to between the ages of 17 years and 80 years. The data, and the data ta...

Health Promotion Knowledge and Education

my purpose for study. Existing research supports the benefits of this model. Lannon (1997) explains that the Pender model is bas...

Community Health Facilities Near The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

For other health issues, such psychiatric help, aside from the Philadelphia Childrens Hospital which offers such services, there i...

Does the Use of High Doses of Vitamin C Improve Health?

one of the primary issues is that these levels vary and that different researchers view the significance of levels differently. ...

Article Analysis: Evolutionary Biology and Human Health

natural selection make the body less vulnerable?" (Dybas, 2007, p. 729). If doctors approached medicine from a Darwinian perspecti...

Benzene

not only industrial in nature, they include those that have direct consumer contact. Some dental adhesives and even soft drinks, ...

Insurance Companies and CT Scans

a difference. But, on the other hand, if a person gets one every year, if they are required to get one every year, this seems to b...

Health Research: Staph Infections

R. Monina Klevens. Klevens suggests that staph infections "may be twice as common as previously thought" (Sack, 2007, p. A3). If t...

The Effects of Immobility, Injury, and Aging of Joints

impact on joint function. Typically, fractures are pulled back in place and the injury is immobilized using a plaster cast or som...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Should New Drugs Be Labelled As ‘New’ To Indicate A Higher Risk Than Established Dugs?

funds used to ensure drug safety focused in the approval of new drugs. After a drug is approved there are few quality reports unde...

Skills Needed by a Forensic Nurse

McAndrew, 2006). With communication skills there are includes skills of listening as well as tact as essential to facilitate effec...

Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Article Critique/Compliance with Hand Hygiene Guidelines

a concise, but thorough description of the study that certainly will engage the interest of any healthcare professional researchin...

Chronicity & Illness Trajectory

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

Strategies For Health Counselors

difficult illness to overcome. Although this booklet is written for physicians, any health care professional could use the strateg...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Teaching Patients How to Use the Internet

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

American Public Policies

The rate with which healthcare technology has evolved has coupled with demographic changes to result in an extremely taxed system....

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Creating the Fitness Center Information System

state-of-the-art treatment in various areas of health care, its information system for its fitness center is woefully lacking from...

Health Promotion Proposal/Childhood Obesity

low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...