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argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

and policies. Consultant Jeff Melton states that the "cost of doing business in California is 30 percent higher than the av...

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

effortlessly leap once imposing territorial and cultural borders which can have major consequences on state "sovereignty, prosperi...

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...

vows that a health care reform plan will be the first item that he sends to Congress as president (McLellan, 2004). His proposal w...

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

Colorado/Utah and 3.7 percent of the hospitalizations occurring in New York resulted incurred adverse events (Dunn 45). Death occu...

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

this number, a surprising 51.3 percent were employed people under the age of 65 (Birenbaum, 1993). Almost 28 percent of the unins...

both agree to an extent. In any event, the point is that both talk the talk and whether or not they will if elected implement such...

abortions were categorized as being either therapeutic (legal) or criminal (Aries, 2003). Therapeutic abortions were only cases i...

feel that another area in which increased immunizations may be called for is in regards to vaccinating against influenza (Sibbald...

Example Aggregate Several of the individuals surveyed during a needs assessment for a heart disease prevention program indi...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

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...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

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...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

structure that supports whatever methods need to be used in the process. Requiring that one vice president oversee nursing in two...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

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...