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Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Taking Control of Our Health

Personal health and welfare is dependent on a number of factors. Some of these factors are things that you cannot control. Some...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Reflection on Community/Public Health Nursing

the provision of nursing services for early diagnosis and preventive services, the progress made over the course of the last centu...

Evaluation of a Health Promotion Pamphlet

such as the misconception that young people only the elderly are at risk for stroke, and it thoroughly describes the various risks...

Vapor Intrusion and Wet Scrubbing

from escaping a coal stack and polluting the air (Bishop, 2010). The chemical equation for this process is:...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Birth Control and the Catholic Church

this new mandate. Catholic universities sent letters to the President asking him to exempt all religious individuals and instituti...

Dysfunctional Family Counseling

telling Helen and Manny do not know where she is. They have a conflicting opinions about Derek as well. Derek has a part-time jo...

Overview of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome

the signs of illness in order to maintain prolonged contact with healthcare providers (Criddle, 2010). History and Statistics Ph...

Chinese Americans, A Cultural Assessment

in the 1960s a new wave of immigrants resulted. Since the early 1970s, roughly 250,000 "Chinese intellectuals, scientists and engi...

Counseling Issues, Hispanic Clients/

et al, 2009, p. 170). Dupree, et al (2010) conducted a study that investigated the barriers and preferences regarding mental hea...

Electronic Health Records and Accrediting Bodies

recent and revolutionary innovations in American healthcare, the advent of the electronic health record, and the accrediting bodie...

Tobacco and the Issues Surrounding It

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

The Bio-Psychological Approach to Health

obvious examples of the bio-psychological approachs usefulness is in the context of chronic illness. Take, for instance, a patient...

The Stigma of Therapy

early detection and treatment would insure a healthier population (Blumenthal, 2011). A study of nearly 800 college students foun...

A Day in the Life of a Mental Health Supervisor

a three-year-old whose asthma was acerbated by her familys living conditions in a run-down tenement where mildew was evident. She ...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: ESTABLISHING ACCEPTABILITY, BUDGETING AND PRO FORMA

he received checks back in the mail for overage. "Im not sure what was worse," he told me at one point, "going through all that pa...

A Comparison of Electronic Health Record Software

records. In 2007, promoting the bill that would implement such incentives at the federal level, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham ...

Role in Health Administration

health care industry In January of 2011, the first of the so-called baby boomer generation, that is, individuals born immediately...

ADHD and Teachers' Knowledge

between 2 and 18 percent of all children, and it is associated with poor academic performance, which can lead to numerous other co...

THE PROFESIONAL MENTAL HEALTH NURSE AND COMMUNICATION SKILLS

No matter what the specialty, nurses are on the front line of healthcare - theyre the individuals who interact directly with the p...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

Regulation of HMOs

(Sullivan, 2000). His regular doctor did not send him to the hospital, he sent Joseph to a nursing home with instructions to call ...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

Ethically Arguing Against the Aggressive Marketing of Tobacco

the marketing approaches which are being utilized. Philosopher have argued practically since the beginning of time as to ho...

Personal Cholesterol Level Reduction and Health Promotion

of exercise extend beyond helping to burn the energy that the body stores as fat. Fat and cholesterol can collect along the...