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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 Special Interest Groups

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

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...

Care at the End of Life and Cultural Variations

(1997) observes: "Involving the family in hospital care, maximizing the family as a resource, and creating an environment where h...

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...

Institutional Care, Legalities, and Ethics

of children in an institutional setting is at the very crux of ethical issues. Because the caretaker maintains control over the c...

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...

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...

Heathcare Present and Future Concerns

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

Adult Day Care Placement Benefits

not a socially accepted occurrence. In America, contempt and disrespect stem from the aspect of aging against ones will, with peo...

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...

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...

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...

UK Children in Care and Academic Performance

of the population in this group, that this can be explained by way of intellectual differences. Education is only one elem...

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...

2 Nursing Paradigm Models

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

Treatment in Home and in Hospital for Acute Conditions Advantages and Disadvantages

level of problems for inpatients was 20.9% compared to only 8.4% for outpatients (Wilson et al, 2002). When asked to rate the serv...

Overview of Chicago's Edward J. Hines Jr. Hospital

a reputation for efficiency and effectiveness, as well see later on in this paper. The hospital was named in honor of Edwa...

Palliative Care Environments and Massage Benefits

to assist in the process of migrating through the stages of ones particular challenges (What Is Hospice & Palliative Care? 2003)....

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 Professional Education and Student Autonomy

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

Overview of Environmental Health Care

chemicals throughout our lives and some ill effects do not happen until years later (NIEHS, 2003). Most physicians have limited ...

Ethnic Minority Children's Health Care and the Leeds' Report

repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are...

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...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Answering 3 Questions on Environment for Child Care

any reason (such as fire alarm). The environment itself needs to be well light if indoors as well as well ventilated, and a suita...

Social Workers and Attachment Theory

the attachment cycle, crying is the dominant signaling behavior. The cry of the infant signals the caregiver to provide relief fo...