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Childhood Obesity

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...

Survival of Managed Care

twentieth century, with accusations that it has failed to live up to the demands placed upon it by the ever-growing population, ef...

Public Relations Campaigns, HIV, and AIDS

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...

Community Health & Teen Pregnancy

situation. As a provider of care, it is the role of the community health nurse to address the needs of Centerville adolescents i...

Health Care: Proposal

quality of care is approached, while at the same time find ways to reduce costs. It has also been noted that socialized health ca...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Heath Care Equal Access Support

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

Fragmented Systems and Managed Care

it actually created more problems than it solved? An Overview of Fragmentation Once upon a time, medicine was a fairly str...

Five Questions on Public Health Nursing

the term public health nurses" (JWA - Lillian Wald, n.d.). The public health nurses at the turn of the 20th century visited...

Future Trends in Managed Care

that MCOs develop their capacity to handle changes that are driven legislatively by congressional response to public reactions to ...

Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

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

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

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

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

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

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Affordability of Health Insurance Letter to U.S. Senator Bill Frist

approach to health care for themselves and all Americans. Demographics of The Most Needy...

Rural Health Care and Employee Training Outsourcing

educational providers. Todays workplace is characterized by an incontestable shortage of appropriately trained workers. Wh...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

A Lesson Plan For Infection Control

control in the long term care setting. Avoidance of infection is preferable over the need for cure, and also has the effect of in...

Proposal on Health Policy

In five pages this paper considers health care's present status with an approach option proposed. Ten sources are cited in the bi...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

World Trade Organization's Function and Structure

the shortcomings and loopholes which had become evident during the years of GATTs implementation could be resolved and improved up...

Health Care and the Internet

who are suffering from chronic ailments such as congestive heart failure, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), asthma and...

The Angel Crest Manor Long Term Assistance Living Facility

contracts back in the 1970s. In the last few years, the facility see-sawed between economic ruin and financial stability. A majo...

Health Care Systems and the Effects of Managed Care

In five pages this paper discusses managed care effects upon health care systems with its various problems considered. Six source...

Pontiac, Michigan and African Americans County Public Health Outreach Services

In ten pages this paper discusses a county public health outreach program for African Americans who have been consistently denied ...

Comprehensive Overview of America's Health Care System

family became very sick, required surgery, or even broke a bone. Medial bills of this sort have wiped people out and put them in b...

Overview of Health Care Costs

In ten pages this research paper examines the costs of health care at consumer, private, state, and federal levels with a consider...

Managed Care Cost

In five pages this paper examines increasing health care costs in the U.S. in a consideration of managed care criticisms, provides...