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Public Health Organizations

Both Winslow and Acheson make the link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many...

Healthy People 2020

who have these risks. They are: inactivity, 39.5 percent; obesity, 33.9 percent; high blood pressure, 20.5 percent; cigarette smok...

Preventative and Curative Health Care: An Economic Approach

also provides a valuable example of the economics of health care in general as obesity has been associated in recent literature wi...

An Overview of Schizophrenia

personality and impaired functioning of regular kinds of activities and tasks. Psychosis refers to distorted reality or a lack of ...

The Impacts of Down Syndrome

Introduction Down syndrome results from a chromosomal anomaly. Instead of a child having the normal twenty chromosomes the...

Article Analysis Of Refusal Of Pertussis Vaccination And Incidence Of Infection

possibility of spreading the disease in exponential proportions. Not only are unvaccinated children vulnerable to contracting per...

Favoring Stem Cells

in some tissues they become a "sort of internal repair system," creating enough cells to replenish those that die off, a process t...

The Law as Compared to Living Organisms

example lies in the laws that we have that relate to due process. The laws relating to due process are specialized laws that dir...

Educating a 13-Year Old in the Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)

the disorder in the family (Irritable bowel syndrome, 2009). It appears to be especially distressing for children: "Children with ...

Women, AIDS and HIV in the District of Columbia

2009"). In responding to the crisis, the city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors hav...

Lance Armstrong Leader and Cancer Survivor

is called "drafting" (Harkins and Hollihan, 2009). When the cyclist in front becomes exhausted from the effort, he goes to the bac...

The Many Applications of Genetic Engineering

can be amplified. Copies can be made off of the original template to use in biological and medical research and other application...

Treating Obesity with Nutrition

heavier than men), genetics, environment (lifestyle), illness, medication and the level of ones physical activity ("Obesity"). Psy...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Introduction to Psychobiology

the brain waves. Electrodes are places on the scalp and a machine picks up the shape and types of waves, e.g., alpha waves or beta...

School Nurses and the Usefulness of Jean Watson's Nursing Paradigm

no education. Children were left to their own devices to discover the intimacies of one of the most personal activities of human ...

My Father, My Brother and Me

on using this paper properly! Parkinsons disease takes a tremendous toll on people around...

Smoking and Its Impact on the Lungs

its effects on the cellular structure of the respiratory system. It actually burns though the cell walls of the lungs just minute...

Prostate Cancer

history of prostate cancer should be aware that they have a higher risk of developing this disease. It is unknown why, but Black m...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

A Background of AIDS and the Virus that Causes It

on large populations of many third world countries, particularly third world countries in Africa and Haiti. Within one decade of ...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Enhanced External Counter Pulsation Business Plan

HMOs now are listed as the responsible parties for 97 percent of all Americans who have insurance coverage and are not covered thr...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Questions on Managed Care Answered

the processes of care and generally utilizes claims data in order to discern rates of service delivery that are, in turn, linked t...

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...

Australia Focus on Breast Cancer

carcinoma in situ (DCIS). This is also known as "intraductal carcinoma or non-invasive breast cancer" (Breast Cancer, 2004; p. PG...