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Innovations for Wal-Mart

the local communities in which it operates. Outsiders roundly criticize the company for not paying its employees a living wage as...

Suicidal Ideation Not Necessarily Associated With Bipolar Disorder

benefit from the combined benefits of pharmacotherapy and psychosocial therapy. Inherently associated with suicidal tendencies, b...

Improving Health of Employees

Healthier employees are happier, more satisfied, more loyal, have higher morale levels, and more productive than unhealthy employe...

Servant Leadership in Service

Leadership is a mysterious entity. We know it when we see or experience it but we cannot really define it. In fact, there is no si...

American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, however, mandated electronic health records for all Medicare and Medicaid pati...

Weight and Self-Esteem

The percentage of obese children between the ages of 6 and 11 was 18 percent in 2012 while 21 percent of adolescents are obese. Th...

Evidence-Based Practices Nursing

In health care, implementing evidence-based practices refers to making decisions about patient care that are based on the best evi...

A Program to Reduce Overweight Kids

The prevalence of obesity has increased across the world over the last three decades. Effective programs to curb and prevent overw...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

Evaluation of Usablity.gov

which entices the user to explore further. The target audience for this site is quite broad. As indicated in the introduction to ...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

PATIENT SAFETY AND CONSUMER-DIRECTED HEALTH CARE

had pushed through legislation mandating mandatory medical error reporting (Hosford, 2008). Additionally, and perhaps more importa...

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...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

There is no question HMOs are in need of some major improvement efforts. Time and time again, anecdotal accounts of personal ongo...

Post-Merger Problems

with similar expertise but with a slightly different viewpoint; it may be expanding vertically by acquiring a company either above...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

The Obama and McCain Health Care Reform Plans

remainder in expanded Health Savings Accounts" (Straight talk, 2008). As for the currently uninsured, McCains plan is to work with...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

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...

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...