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Americans Should be Thankful for What They Have

have to lose their home over medical bills. Of course, a representative from the insurance industry was there and did explain that...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

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...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Transcultural Assessment - Arab-Americans

(Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Male doctors, for instance, may not be allowed to touch female Arab patients in certain parts of the body a...

Health Beliefs of African Americans

being mentored by an elder; 2) those who received their ability to heal as a divine gift; and 3) those who were born with the abil...

How Regulatory Agencies have Improved Outcomes

(Chen et al, 2003). Accreditation has been identified as a measure of quality, but whether this results in measurable difference...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

African American Women: Impact of Violence on their Health

This research paper is presented in two sections. The first section consists of an annotated bibliography and an outline of the pa...

Mental Issues, Mindset And Social Work

state hospitals; however, ignorance compounded the fact that "at the time of its enactment the structure and support some people w...

Americans Without Health Insurance

so as to reflect a more comprehensive and viable commodity for all Americans. Clinton even took a shot at it, however, one might ...

Threats to American Health/Chronic Disease v. Contagion

people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman ...

The American Health Care System: A Disgrace

they should have "choices that are diverse and responsive to individual needs"; and they should exercise personal responsibility i...

American Health Care

over the decades--people can opt to purchase lower priced vehicles or do without. They may own homes and cars already. Life is aff...

Mental Health Services and Limited Use by Asian Americans

that the theory which best describes the underlying expected relationships among variables is related to the stratification hypot...

Health Insurance Coverage and Middle Class Americans

at a job the following week at comparable or increased wages and better fringe benefits. Many of these facilities were covered by...

Health Issues of African Americans in Modern Times

In this paper consisting of 5 pages, belief systems, specific health-care issues/problems and work hazards are discussed. There i...

American Health Care Industry as Viewed by Thomas Hobbes and Plato

In ten pages this paper examines how Hobbes and Plato would view the problems currently faced by the U.S. health care industry. F...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

American Society and the Distribution of Health Care

In six pages health care system distribution in the United States is considered in a discussion of why the Clinton proposal failed...

The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

African Americans' Involvement in the American Revolution

This essay uses research to discuss the experiences of African Americans who enlisted in the British army in order to obtain their...

1st Generation Indian Americans, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans

traditions and societies" (Said, 1979, pp. 45-6). Nakashima (2001) touches upon an issue that has long eluded multicultural...

Comparative Analysis of Chinese American, Black American, and Native American Experiences

This paper consists of five pages and contrasts and compares the socioeconomic, historical, and ideological factors associated wit...

Early 1900s' South to North African American Migration Compared with European Americans' Movement

laborers, domestic servants, families - all made the monumental decision to search out a better life. Regardless of the quest for ...