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2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

care service has been the focus of greater scrutiny. Willging (2004) asks: "Just what is assisted living? There are still too ma...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

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

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

regulation has been broadly down controlled by the integrity of medical practitioners. This model was one which was mainly self-re...

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

through the work of 11 agencies, with a particular focus on aiding those citizens who are "least able to help themselves" (HHS, 20...

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

infected individuals essentially quadrupled in South Africa and Zimbabwe (El-Asfahani and Girvan, 2009). Today an estimated 25 pe...

of those "right-time, right-place" solutions for the Hospital for Sick Children, which was spearheading the initiative, the other ...

"minimum standards for licensing, vehicles, equipment for vehicles, personnel, training, communications and the treatment of acute...