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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...

Role of Public Health Nurse/Diabetes Care

reveals about diabetic populations. The normal digestive processes of the body turn any form of carbohydrate that is consumed in...

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,...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

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

Public and Community Health

2003). Community health systems are attached to social trends, economics, health care, and culture (Lundy & Janes, 2003). Yet, the...

U.S. Health Care System

care system. In 2004, Dr. David Brailer, pursuant to an presidential executive order, announced the Strategic Plan for Health Inf...

Improving Health Care Quality Through Public Reporting and a Reward System

Leapfrog Group, 2009). That report made the astounding observation that more deaths (some 98,000) result from preventable mistake...

The Public Option is Necessary

very wrong with health care in the United States. Presidents have been trying to fix the problem for decades but they are fightin...

U.S. and How to Address the Public Health Crisis of Obesity

body mass index that is greater than the 95th percentile for age and gender, they are classified as obese (Dietz & Hunter, 2009). ...

PUBLIC HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES

some countries governments continue to look the other way, environmental issues such as pollution and contamination will continue ...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

Adolescent Suicide

nature of both the emotional and the physical changes that are a natural part of adolescence ("Teen," 2003). Annually, close to 5,...

Public Health Department in One State

Texas. It does so through a myriad of programs and services that may be delivered directly from this department to individuals or ...

Public Health Program

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

Controlling and Preventing Pandemics

Pathogenic organisms have the potential to radically alter human life. Human beings, like all animals, are both directly...

New York Public Health - An Overview

the belief that our society as a whole will benefit if we are able to provide sufficient health care to all. Based on what you alr...

Drug- Resistant Gonorrhea, An Overview

This research paper pertains to the public health problem of drug-resistant gonorrhea and relevant issues are described. Five page...

Resource Management and its Impact on Public Health

This paper emphasizes the importance of resource management and how it impacts human health. The poor are often harder hit by poo...

Animal Feeding Operations

Very few independent farms product meat and crops today. Instead, there are huge corporations that are involved in these activitie...

Syphilis and Public Health

This research paper describes Treponema pallidum, a spirochete bacterium that is known to be the causative agent for syphilis. The...

Action Research and Public Health Nursing

This research paper is based on a study conducted by Pamela A. Kulbok and her colleagues (2013), which utilized action research. T...

Action Research, Kulbok, et al. (2012)

This essay/research paper pertains to the study conducted by Pamela Kulbok and her colleagues (2012), which focuses on the roles ...

Gender Bias in Medicine

This paper considers public health shortcomings when it comes to gender. There are three sources in this three page paper. ...

Public Health and Food Safety

Families with young children, in particular, should be educated as to how to avoid the risks of food born illnesses. Community he...

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...

Childhood Obesity Statistics, Public Health Assessment

This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...

Quarantine: Public Health Ethics

This essay pertains to quarantine and its implications for ethics and public health professionalism. Three pages in length, three ...

Morbidity and Mortality, Introduction of ART on HIV

This research paper presents a proposed project that address the introduction of antiretroviral therapy in regards to treating HIV...

Food and Public Health

This paper details the efforts and responsibilities of a number of players who have joined in the fight against food borne illness...

Heart Failure Readmissions

The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...