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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Health Care and Situational Leadership

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Health Care and Special Interest Groups

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Health Care Crisis and Economics

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

Austria's Health Care Financial System Positioning

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Canadian Women Immigrants and Health Care

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

Overview of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award

U.S. government (The Malcolm, 2002). Originally a national award for manufacturing industries, the award was expanded to include h...

Triage and its Medical and Military History

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

China, the U.S., and Health Care

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Two Scenarios in Medical Ethics

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

Ontario, Canada's Health Care Funding Process

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

Asians and Beliefs on Health

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

Analyzing Behavioral Health Care Organizations

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

Health Promotion Role of Practitioner When Clients Refuse Antipsychotic Medications Because of Side Effects

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...