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State Systems and the Effects of Globalization

effortlessly leap once imposing territorial and cultural borders which can have major consequences on state "sovereignty, prosperi...

Impacts of Tobacco Evaluated

"tobacco kills more than 125,000 American women, mostly through cigarette-induced heart disease, lung cancer, and other lung...

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...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

A Learning Contract For Health and Safety Education

In writing the health and safety policy there are several objectives, the resulting policy document is one that necessitates a ran...

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...

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...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Policies of Safety and Health

ecosystems with respect for life not limited to human life. The health and safety issues will also extend to an educational role...

Australia's Policy on Mental Health

policy, rehabilitation, and consumer rights. The paper finishes with a section on rehabilitation and the elderly in Australia as i...

Health Risks and Managing Crises

the older section of the sample. To assess this we need to assess if there is a relationship between the age of the employees who...

Impact of Audits on Accident Rates in Hong Kong/A Research Proposal

for all industries the rate is only 17.7 accidents per 1,000 workers (LegCo Panel on Manpower, 2004). The improvement should not...

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...

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...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

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...

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 ...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Public Health and Welfare Reform from Both Sides of the Issue

that speaks to the need to encourage otherwise nonproductive members of society to become more instrumental in their own well bein...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

'Pox Americana' by Elizabeth Fenn

for my country. I want to first let you know that I thoroughly enjoy working for such a prestigious agency, but we are living in...

Men Are the Weaker Sex

places with fatty deposits (atheroma) which narrow them, restricting the blood-flow. This leads to coronary heart disease" (Inform...

Globalization, Emerginig Trade Markets, and Argentina

was considered an all-time low (Solomon, 2003). While the Argentine economy continued to shrink, so did consumer confidence in bot...

Proposals on Health Care Reform

vows that a health care reform plan will be the first item that he sends to Congress as president (McLellan, 2004). His proposal w...

Partnership Development and Mental Health Recovery Focus

mental illness in the individual has become more and more obvious. This emphasis has, of course, been based on previous work but ...