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to smoking for medical care for one year, 1993, was in excess of $50 billion and estimated lost productivity due to smoking-relate...

p. 1). Multi-infarct dementia (MID) is caused by a series of strokes, which are frequently small (MID, n.d.). Patients with MID ...

Center for Health Statistics, approximately 6.7% of children aged 5 to 17 were reported to have ADHD in 1997-2000" (Attention Defi...

while the unexpected loss of your long-term job has created a presence of fear and intimidation as you consider having to reintrod...

cancer being observed (Wynder, Goodman and Hoffman, 1985). They also suggest that schools should place "major emphasis" on program...

take to the streets rather than cope with abuse, violence or parental drug addiction. Also, as indicated above in regards to alcoh...

problem was the causative factor in his declining health and increasing depression. In Pauls case, behavioral elements were d...

be learned about keeping children with the potential of being categorized as at risk out of the statistical pool by prescreening a...

strategic outposts for expanding trade with Latin America and Asia, particularly China" (History of the United States, 1865-1918, ...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

or other individual. The goal of child welfare services is to provide an array of prevention and intervention services to children...

Joseph is a silent sufferer, however. He appears to be suffering ill effects of his treatment in Africa, and his present circumst...

a better standard of living than does Congo, and that with the cooperation of developed nations, it may very well be that Congo be...

Plus Program, that was implemented in the study performed by Resnick and colleagues was found, among other benefits, to improve af...

and disregard on the part of the employer. That Luther feared the same fatal outcome as Joe suffered is reason enough to understa...

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

233). After assessment is completed, the nurse utilizes the CFIM, which defines an intervention as "an action or activity a heal...

maintain that these individuals experience "deficits in behavioral, emotional, academic, and social functioning" that follow them ...

several very concerning symptoms. Those symptoms include skin blisters, eye irritation, respiratory problems including bloody nos...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

target a specific behavior rather than self-injury as a whole (Edelson, 2006). Each self-injurous behavior is likely to have spec...

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

of Human Rights (Khan, 2006). Its mission has evolved from blanket support of human rights to targeting specific abuses such as g...

scrub brush to her, then hose down the apartment. People with poor personal hygiene, not to put to fine a point on it, stink; huma...

diversion stoma (urostomy) allows urine to be passed through the stoma rather than the urethra (Kirkwood 20). Sometime stomas are ...

First seen as an occasional point of minor and temporary discomfort, there seemed to be other, more "important" issues to assess. ...

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

as "submission to the new culture or changing to the old" (Li, 1993, p. 99). Instead, by working out the conflicts, "a new awarene...

(Townsend, 2000). This study is advantageous in many other ways as well to the nursing educator. It utilizes methodologi...

to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...