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Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

E-Health: Policies And Procedures To Protect Consumer Confidentiality

which is where the AIDS population appears to lose its right to privacy. Schmidt (2005) notes that more currently, the Kennedy-Ka...

HMOs and Primary Care Physicians

In ten pages this paper discusses PCPs in terms of disadvantages associated with primary care physicians being used as gatekeepers...

Managed Care, HMOs & Evolution over Last Decade

the rate of such hospital mergers. One of these trends was the "phenomenon of Columbia/HCA," a for-profit hospital system that man...

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

Controlling Healthcare Costs

This research paper discusses the urgent need to control health care expenditure in the US and the strategies that are currently b...

Reduce Health Costs by Targeting Resources

The New York City Police Commissioner was successful in reducing crime by targeting high crime areas and allocating resources to t...

Health Care Initiatives - An Overview

In a paper of six pages, the writer looks at health care initiatives. The use of education in preventative care is given focus. Pa...

Primary Care and Specialists

managed care, hospitals have found that there is a higher margin of profit in specialized services, such as cardiology, pediatrics...

Dealing With Unsustainable Health Costs

is based on the greatest good for the greatest number of people. Or, it could be the greatest pleasure or good over the least pain...

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

TB Still Claims Millions of Lives

are 53,000 new TB cases in the country each year and about 10,000 die from this disease (UNAMA, 2012). That is a rate of about 38 ...

The Creation of a Testing Measure for the Topic of Healthcare Reform

that mental disorders may have genetic, neurobiological and behavioral causes is helpful in legitimizing the application of method...

Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Level

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Questions and Answers about Health Care

deciding on health care coverage options? At the moment, health care coverage within the United States still follows a largely c...

Changes of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

This 10 page paper provides an overview of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. This paper includes four major changes ...

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act Issues

The Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act was passed in 2010. It is a progressive, sequential act with different parts mandat...

Aspects of American Healthcare

This paper addresses three questions: Does there a relationship between socioeconomic status and health outcomes; Is heath care a ...

US Healthcare Spending and ACA Effectiveness

This essay is comprised of two sections. The first section pertains to health care spending in the US and the second discussed the...

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual 5

This is the manual mental health care professionals use for diagnostic and informational purposes. The manual lists mental health ...

Policy Making for Health Care: Module Answers

This 10 page paper gives answers for questions in modules concerning health care in the United States. This paper includes questio...

Universal Health Care, An Overview

This research paper presents a comprehensive overview of the issues associated with the continuing debate about universal health c...

Discussion Questions for Health Care Economics

In a paper of seventeen pages, the writer looks at health care economics issues. Factors associated with the Affordable Care Act a...

A Community Health Issue in Kentucky/Smoking Cessation

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

The Social Issue Of Health And Mental Health

concern for hospital executives is the fact that as managed care contracts increase, hospital marketing orientation decreases. Ma...

Overview Major Health Organization

This paper discusses a major health care organization and its diversity. Several topics are discussed: data regarding diversity, m...