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Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Ostomy Wounds

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

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

State Systems and the Effects of Globalization

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

Health Risks and Managing Crises

the older section of the sample. To assess this we need to assess if there is a relationship between the age of the employees who...

Impact of Audits on Accident Rates in Hong Kong/A Research Proposal

for all industries the rate is only 17.7 accidents per 1,000 workers (LegCo Panel on Manpower, 2004). The improvement should not...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...

Public Health and Welfare Reform from Both Sides of the Issue

that speaks to the need to encourage otherwise nonproductive members of society to become more instrumental in their own well bein...

Home Health Service Provider Business Plan

or may not have a market, home health care is a service that always has a market of some size. The business is a proven one, one ...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Literature Review of Consumer Research

indicator of quality, there remains a dearth of published research addressing the issue. There are some studies that address wait...

Domestic Violence and Community Health Nursing

domestic violence is to, first of all, screen for domestic violence with all injured patients. When screening for abuse, Flitcraft...

Health Issues, Diet, and the Media

There are those who believe that advertising can actually be beneficial in promoting health and nutrition; after all, television e...

Case Study on Mental Health and Social Work

which are applicable to Lisas case, but also the ways in which they can best be enacted, given these constraints. One of the most ...

Advanced Practice Nursing, the Self Care Deficit Model of Dorothea Orem, and Urinary Incontinence

development of nurse-operated continence centers, which provide conservative management for UI (Bernier, 2002). Continence nurses...

Public Health Issues and Sulphur Dioxide

that "number counting and statistical techniques are not the central issues" (p. 64). This is especially true when applying persp...

1996's HIPAA

In six pages the 1996 bill the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is examined in an overview of privacy and secur...

Smoking Cigarettes

on advertising campaigns promoting cigarettes. Smoking was depicted as sophisticated and adult, and considered a normal part of ev...

Political Issue of Second Hand Tobacco Smoke

detrimental health. What drives the issue is politics and money and a sense that people are entitled to whatever they want. No...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

CRT Monitors, Effects, and Diseases

In seven pages this report considers the effects of excessive computer use with such health issues as electromagnetic radiation, b...

Adler vs. Freud, a Comparison

Alfred Adler is second only to Sigmund Freud in the history of psychoanalysis and psychology. This report examines the effect the ...

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...

Asthma and Food Allergies

authors found a correlation between the anaphylactic reaction and a history of asthma and atopic dermatitis. There are abou...