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Health: Fast Food

is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...

Fast Food and Obesity

exercise he usually engaged in. Spurlock is 6;2: tall and weight 185 pounds at the beginning. His BMI was normal. For his height...

"Youth Do Not Care About Politics": Why, and What Can be Done?

material possessions and feelings of isolation from political officials and institutions. Forbrig, Joerg. Revisiting Youth Pol...

Psychiatric Nursing Alternatives

they visited, and some tended to visit fairly frequently (Demling et al, 2002). Patients in general were very positive about thei...

Philadelphia and Hunger Issues

Philadelphia County in 1999 illustrates a preponderance of lower income/higher poverty rates than the attributed to the overall st...

HMO Incentives for Doctors

2008). Incentive programs can actually have very positive outcomes if they are used correctly and ethically (Sabin, 2008). In so d...

Managed Care and its Impact on Poor/Minority Patient Care

Concepts, theories, principles and practices in managed care and the health services industry in regards to social, economic, and ...

Employers Should Provide Insurance to Dependents

are making the request in an effort to save money." While employers are stretched in this difficult economy, it is wrong for empl...

Mental Health Services in Rural Communities

use. At the same time, the focus on methods for the provision of services is limited and clinical outpatient programs are infrequ...

Visual Images and Communication

forceful idea behind this image is that AIDS should be a collective problem, one that sparks a community-based response. ...

Nursing Ethics/A Diabetic Patient

2010). The first provision of the ANA code specifies that nurses should show "compassion and respect" in regards to the "dignity, ...

Is There a Need for Clinical Supervision

either manager or educator. Proctor (1994) described this kind of method or approach to both instruction and organizational inte...

Issues in Psychiatric Genetic Research

twin research (Joseph, 2010b). However, the EEA is controversial because it posits that the same environment and psychological b...

Obesity and the Development of Pharmaceuticals

airplanes. It is hard to live in America without seeing many obese people every day of their lives. What is obesity and how is it ...

Public School Safety, Health, and Nutrition

a sense that the children are cognizant of weight issues. The Principal, Dr. Meyer claims that the parents at this school have b...

Nursing Home Care and the Effects of Mandatory Continuation of Nursing Education

nursing care over the past decade and how do they support the argument for a continuum of educational practices for nursing profes...

Contemporary Appalachia, Transportation Challenges, and Mental Health

Transportation in Appalachia presents problems both in terms of the public and private variety. In summary, public transportation ...

A Critique of Two Ariticles Pertaining to Cardiac Step Down Units

it is discovered that her death was called by a massive pulmonary embolism. Two years later, her husband files suit against the n...

Morality, Politics, and Ecology

substances that will remain in the soil for many future decades. Current EPA findings indicate that even the most sophisticated o...

Advanced Nursing Practice Philosophy

therapeutic manner (Tourville and Ingalls, 2003). This relationship may refer to a single individual, or the "person" may be a sma...

Social Systems Theory and Foster Care

physical and social limits, functional components, and feedback mechanisms" (Reicherter and Billek-Sawhney, 2003). With regard t...

The Healing Applications of the Hypnotic Technique

Hypnosis is sometimes regarded more as a parlor trick than as an effective approach to influencing human behavior and...

Decreasing Low Birth Weights and Decreasing Infant Mortality

the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...

Reviewing the Literature on OBRA 87 and Care Quality

to increase the quality of care given in long term care facilities in the country, in order to ultimate reduce health care costs t...

Personal Spece Distances

the sidewalk so as not to destroys someones property (Leig, 2011). One of the dangers of excessive territoriality is something t...

Cardiac Death, Screening Athletes

Baker County Independent School Board concerns a serious health prevention concern in regards to the student athletes participatin...

Health Among the Homeless

They are in the community and spreading bacterial infections to the general public. Appropriate health care could greatly improve ...

Access to Care for Underprivileged, ESRD in NC

and Abecassis, 2010). Available treatments for ESRD and economics of treatment from an organizational perspective: The only trea...

Overview of Jean Watson's Theory of Transpersonal Caring

a noun and a verb, is inextricably intertwined with nursing. Nurses provide care, that is, the actions necessary to attend to pati...

Looking at the Practical Aspects of Introducing a New Strategy for a Home Care Agency

legislation an the economic feasibility of the plan. A major role of the board will be to make the decision, to ensure that there ...