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Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

The Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator)

Obviously, the relationship that is formed between a mental health advocate and his or her client is critical. This relationship ...

Arterial Blood Pressure, Arteriosclerosis, and Hypertension

of atherosclerosis, and the progression of correlated hypertension and myocardial dysfunction (Katz, 1990). The pursuit of conti...

Saudi Arabia National Health Insurance Planning

to determine the basis for the creation of a national health insurance system in Saudi Arabia, including the creation of an issue ...

Overview of Health Tourism Industry

host country both by increasing tourism, and by increasing the consumption of health and medical services" (WATIC, 2005). In...

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

Michael Moore's "Sicko" - Health Care That Harms Rather Than Helps

head of the largest Anti-Michael Moore website announced that he had to delete the website because his wife had cancer and the ins...

The Effects of Immobility, Injury, and Aging of Joints

impact on joint function. Typically, fractures are pulled back in place and the injury is immobilized using a plaster cast or som...

Does the Use of High Doses of Vitamin C Improve Health?

one of the primary issues is that these levels vary and that different researchers view the significance of levels differently. ...

An Admission Essay for Premedical Studies

The fear in my grandmothers eyes and my mothers sobs did not see to dispel him from his cautionary discussion, one that was design...

Whole Health Management

companies have developed their internal health programs based on the WHM model and have utilized WHM services to enhance existing ...

Four Research Articles on Health Issues

HSNI was that it was difficult for individuals to do at home, and many required treatment in a doctors office. As a result, instr...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

College Students and Anorexia

readily been recognized that early detection and treatment of these disorders is the best way to end the chronic and often debilit...

Research Paper on Alcoholism

C, and HIV (Health Effects 2). It can also cause nutritional issues, lead to alcohol poisoning, cause psychological problems, and...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

Mental Health Parity Act: Interplay of Policy, Cultural And Societal Attitudes Within Clinical Social Work Practice

mental health arena. Anyone is vulnerable to the onset of mental illness which can be triggered by any number of occurrences, not...

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

launching a business). And what about competitive advantage? This is great if the opportunity is a "first-mover," in other words, ...

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...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

MCCAIN HEALTH CARE PROPOSAL AND DOLLARS

(McCain-Palin, 2008). What would be the economic implications of a health care reform proposal such as the one John McCa...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

Public Health Informatics, A Brief Overview

This research paper presents a brief overview of public health informatics, with special emphasis on surveillance systems and thei...

Health Care, Cost Control

This paper offers an overview of health care cost control strategies during the last 4 decades, and also strategies that might wor...

GOLDEN HARVEST AND CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY

it might seem as though corporate social responsibility and the bottom line are mutually exclusive, the literature sees this somew...

ECSTASY (MDMA): The Impacts of the Drug

a number of different fashions, depending on how quickly they want the drug absorbed in their blood stream. Like crack cocaine, M...