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Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Market Forces and Health Care

health care market based on the security of this population results in the ability to maintain higher prices even when other popul...

Environmental and Public Health Effects from Pulp and Paper Mills

always gold. The benefits the mills represent to Georgians are offset by the deleterious impact they can have on lives and lifewa...

The Lasting Effects of Hurricane Katrina

well be lost" (Kalb, Murr and Raymond, 2005). AIDS patients couldnt always get their medication, some patients vanished completely...

Uninsurance & Economic Impact

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Health and the Impacts of Psychosocial Factors

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of psychosocial factors upon health. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Annotated Bibliography on Health Tourism

funding. This article is important because it raises issues of ethics, questions of control and question of the potential problem...

Contemporary Women and Sexism

Women At the turn of the century, very few women worked outside of their own home. Many women actually were very intelligent and ...

Breast Cancer and the Medication Tamoxifen

must be evaluated and considered against possible negative risks. The following discussion of tamoxifen looks specifically at the ...

Discussion Questions on Strategy and Marketing

more targeted micro-marketing" (Mass marketing comes unplugged, 2005), primarily because it is no longer possible to gain a mass a...

Rationing of Health Care and Moral Impacts

paired with a continually expanding population have introduced others. A degradation of the nursing/patient relationship, concern...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

The Global Health Problems Posed to Asian Children by AIDS

women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

Issue of Controlling Drug Prices in Healthcare

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

Epidemiology of Chicken Pox

In seven pages Varicella or 'chicken pox' is examined in terms of its epidemiology and impact upon health. There are approximatel...

Mexican Women's Health and the Impact of Oppression

In seven pages this research paper discusses how the Mexican patriarchy oppression of women impacts their health in a considerati...

Health Care and Women

suggest that for years, women were put aside in terms of heart disease studies and today, AIDS research is conducted almost exclus...

Gingivitis, Periodontitis, Leukoplakia, and Smokeless Tobacco

In six pages this paper discusses smokeless tobacco in a consideration of its oral health impact and the increases in leukoplakia,...

Emotional Health and Personality

In eighteen pages current literature is reviewed in a discussion regarding the mental health impacts of personality types and also...

The Impact of Vertical Integration on Health Care Systems

readily been recognized that the entire system of health care reform is moving towards vertical integration, in which full-service...

Health Care and Native Americans

In five pages this paper examines the health care of Native Americans and considers the impact of their cultural traditions. Six...

Quality in Health Care and the Effects of Agency Nurses

In seventeen pages this research paper examines the U.S. system of health care in terms of the empirical studies that indicate the...

Field of Nursing and Managed Health Care

In eight pages this paper discusses managed health care and its impact upon specialized nursing in an assessment of managed care's...

Impact of Media Violence

In five pages this paper discusses how violence is incited by the media and also considers the health impact of violence. Four so...

Iowa and Rural Hospital Survival Issues

In eight pages this paper examines the rural hospital economic survival issues the state of Iowa struggles with and the impact of ...

Senior Citizen Care and Economics

In six pages this paper examines America's senior citizens in terms of the costs of health care and insurance and the impact upon ...