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individuals contact ring, smallpox could be halted with available resources, making the seemingly impossible, possible. Similarl...

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

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

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

This paper pertains to health campaigns that address foodborne illness, and focuses on the USDA's "Be Food Safe" campaign. The wri...

Stress is one of the most common mental health problems in the world. It is also a catalyst for numerous physical ailments, many o...

Improving the health of employees is a valuable endeavor because the healthier they are the more productive they are. Johnson & Jo...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

expectancy is increasing and more people are surviving serious illness and living longer with chronic illness. At the same time, t...

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

factor in childhood obesity is the fact that television viewing tends to be accompanied by the consumption of high-calorie, high s...

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

allergies. He has never been involved in a serious industrial or automobile accident (Physical assessment, 2007). He is not taking...

years ago," and since then, these studies have replicated often enough and with the same results to make denying this connection n...

most advantageously. Neither is there any consistency in the types of personality and coping responses that least effectively dea...