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

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

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...

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...

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

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

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

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

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

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

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

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

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...

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

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

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...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

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

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

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

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...