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issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

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 ...

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

time will tell if these bills will eventually be passed into national law. The purpose of this paper is to introduce five...

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

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...

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

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

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

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

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

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

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

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

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...