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Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

Health Care System of Canada

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...

Economy of California

and policies. Consultant Jeff Melton states that the "cost of doing business in California is 30 percent higher than the av...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

Uninsured and Impoverished Health Issues

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Pharmacological Health Care Approach of Canada and Economics

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...

Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Prevention Levels

Example Aggregate Several of the individuals surveyed during a needs assessment for a heart disease prevention program indi...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

Health Care and an Application of Distributive Justice

Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

San Diego Hospitals and the Impact of Uninsured Individuals

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

Overview of Needlestick Injuries Among Health Care Workers

infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...

Euthanasia and Opposition to Its Practice

The arguments in support of euthanasia center around quality of life issues, pain and suffering, and the common good (Kowalski, 19...

Australian Social Classes and Health Care Inequalities

conflict theory reflects the basic elements of social life (Turner, 1974; Chambliss, 1974). Human nature is defined by myri...

Possibility of Universal Health Care in the US

"no taxation." Joe Blankeneau reports "the United States is the only modern, industrialized country without some form of un...

Access to Health Care and the Discrimination and Stigma of HIV and AIDS

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

HIV and AIDS Survey Protocols

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Needs

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

Competitive Markets and Health Care

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...