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Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Emergency Management

specifically designed for such an occurrence. What is the single most important aspect of emergency management falls into category...

Concepts of Emergency Management

appropriate policies and procedures (Bechtel et al, 2000). The belief here is that creating a plan to encompass events that are li...

1996 Study on Emergency Situations and Clinical Decision Making

picture" and not miss crucial details that can lead to positive patient outcomes is a question that has been addressed, to some ex...

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Incident Debriefing

actually felt the building shake, for example, are at the most risk for the disorder (2001). At the same time, one psychologist cl...

Senior Citizens Care and the Impact of Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages this paper discusses elderly care in a discussion of nursing, holistic care, communications, and local policies, a...

Cities, Towns, and Emergency Services

a victim whereas a community member who is friends with him, will make that extra effort. Bruegman (1997) contends that while peop...

Effects of Bioterrorism Upon Emergency Medical Technicians

This delays their psychological reaction. After a disaster ends and normal routine starts, there is often an intense period when ...

Local Policies and Global Health Issues

In thirty pages senior citizens' care is examined in this Canadian geriatric case study of various global health issues and local ...

ER Application of the Self Care Deficit Theory Developed by Dorothea Orem

Emergency rooms are, at least in many cases, the primary health care provider to the underinsured and uninsured patient (Isenstein...

Public and Private Health Care's Rise

no knowledge of the world of bacteria; viruses were unheard of; biochemistry had not been considered at all. In short, there was ...

Long Term Care Environments and Nursing Care Plans

their wishes for the patients care. Every nursing home resident has a right to such a plan by law (Stern), and it does not only p...

Patient Care, Team Approaches, Evaluations, and the Process of Nursing

call for compliance with standardized procedures, health codes, and licensing requirements, all of which have been initiated to su...

April 2001 Plane Incident in China

U.S. should take full responsibility for the incident (PG). In the end, the hostages were released, but it was an uneasy time for...

EMTs and Stress

a paid position. Even -- and especially -- at the highest level, all EMTs are to take periodic refresher courses to maintain both...

Emergency Room Decision Making

attack if irreparable harm and indeed loss of life is to be prevented (Isenstein, 1999). The statistics regarding coronar...

Emergency Diagnosis and Intervention Relating to Myocardial Infarction

The statistics regarding coronary artery disease make it obvious that emergency medical services are critical in saving the lives ...

Self Care Model of Dorothea Orem

Today, the theories of Orem, Roy, Neuman, Rogers, King, and others seem to be more popular than older theories such as those of Fl...

Elderly and Community Care

of many elderly patients. The failure of the policy to realise real benefits was seen in many areas. This is not to say...

A Lesson Plan For Infection Control

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Rural Health Care and Employee Training Outsourcing

educational providers. Todays workplace is characterized by an incontestable shortage of appropriately trained workers. Wh...

Communication Barriers to Emergency Medical Services to Homeless, Transsexuals, and Prostitutes

In the Metro Toronto area, over 5,350 homeless people try and fit into the limited homeless spaces available in the hostel system ...

Natural Disaster Aftermath and Transporting Clean Water to Those in Need

dependent they are on easy access to clean water until something prevents that access. The Impact of Natural Disasters Informati...

Controls in Australian and English Tort Law

actionable and for the bringing of cases to be controlled. We may also argue that they also serve a purpose in restricting and cre...

Emergency Room Case Management Structural Development

Upon entering the ER via any means - whether walk-in or ambulance-delivered - the patient will see a triage nurse who will then as...

System of Health Care in Turkey

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

Primary Health Care Trusts and Environmental Factors

personnel needs of the PCT and develop a strategic development plan so that the needs of the PCT are met with the ultimate aim of ...