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Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Prostate Victims & Their Partners/Quality of Life

et al, 2007). Over the last several decades, clinicians have come to regard treatment decisions in terms of quality of life "ben...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

THE LEGALITY OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS AND MEDICAL CARE

beliefs by refraining from eating," the court didnt agree. The court held that even if the children were mature enough to exercise...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Social Workers in Mental Health Services

would have to provide those benefits in the same way as benefits provided to all other medical and surgical procedures covered by ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

Quadagno: "One Nation, Uninsured"

believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwid...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

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...

Evaluation of Usablity.gov

which entices the user to explore further. The target audience for this site is quite broad. As indicated in the introduction to ...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

Enacting Environmental Change

danger of being wiped off the face of the Earth...And now there are more people than ever in harms way (Tibbetts, 2007, p. A202). ...

Proper Nutrition And Good Health: Culinary Cause And Effect

being; changing the way people eat by introducing them to more bioavailable food sources is but one of many aspects inherent to cu...

Nutrition for Athletes

by telling them that everyones confused about what to eat, and then giving them solid guidelines. For instance, she says its impor...

Working Multiple Jobs

(Youssef). She gets home from her regular day job at about 6 p.m. and then works on her own business until 1 a.m. or later (Yousse...

Eating Hamburgers Every Day

red meat, with a clear understanding that hamburger meat is likely the least healthy of red meats due to its being processed and b...

Business Cannot Ignore Pollution: It is a Matter of Life, Death, and Ethics

of wildlife and marine life are being endangered as well. Business must make a better effort to solve pollution problems not simp...

Interview With Nurse CEO

A very large meta-analysis was performed by the American Library Association in 2007 to determine the most important traits for an...

Ethics in Palliative Care

regarded as creating obligations on others to help her exercise her rights. An inherent theme that is implied in all of the questi...

A Case Study Concerning the Move to Electronic Patient Records

The aim is to change the NHS culture to an information culture that will maximise recourses through an appropriate infrastructure....

Smoking and its Impacts to Human Health

hazard and choosing to smoke is the risk factor. Being exposed to secondhand smoke is a risk factor as well. Just because tobac...

Advantages of Implemeing Health and Wellness Programs

such a program. Who Initiates and Leads the Program The human resource department would be the group to initiate such a project....