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providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

process is made more difficult by cultural and linguistic barriers (Murty, 2002). These women frequently bear the brunt of fulfill...

issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

(Sullivan, 2000). His regular doctor did not send him to the hospital, he sent Joseph to a nursing home with instructions to call ...

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

offset incoming pathogens (Anonymous, 1996). Not surprisingly, the "erosion of the public health infrastructure" of the World Hea...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

money for upgrades and improvements. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cu...

does accurately describe the organizations mission. When one hears the name, and also has the information that the women are ass...

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...