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Regulating Health Care Professionals in Rhode Island

"minimum standards for licensing, vehicles, equipment for vehicles, personnel, training, communications and the treatment of acute...

Health Benefits of Breastfeeding

asthma, cancer, diabetes, and childhood obesity" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). Improved eyesight and children having higher intelligence ...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

How Health and Social Influences May Prevent Economic Development

corruption have prospered. Therefore, corruption alone cannot be seen as a source of constraint. Sachs (2006) notes that the per c...

A Qualitative Assessment of Patton-Fuller Community Hospital's Online Web Portal

and health care demands, in part, that hospitals provide a functional presence on the web as a way of providing a higher quality o...

Record-Keeping and the Role of DHHS

reason why pharmacies can sell personal information has to do with a loophole in HIPAA ("HIPAA Loophole Allows Pharmacies To Sell...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Topics for a Course in Health

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...

Factors Affecting Health Care

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

E-Health and Women's Hypertension

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

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Funding Universal Health Care

care without knowing some data. It is also lopsided to discuss the cost without discussing the savings. In 2009, the National Coal...

Planning for a Pandemic Health Care Oversight in Western Kentucky

but society as a whole. Businesses, organizations, and even the government itself could flounder in the face of such a severe pro...

Characteristics of Health Education

2006 edition of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, the editors asked their readers their opinions on issues re...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

Health Education Teaching Strategies

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

Policy Overview

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

An Annotated Bibliography of Health Articles

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

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

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

Education and Health Promotion

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

UK General Ward and Mental Health Ward Risk Management Comparison

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

United Kingdom's White Paper Our Health, Our Care, Our Say

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

Canada's Tele-Health and E-Health Systems

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

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

Health of Canadian Aborigines

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

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...