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Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

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...

Obesity and American Health

determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...

Dallas, TX and Obesity Prevention

Dutch, Swedish, Native American and Russian ("Dallas, Texas," 2005). What does this mean? It seems that the largest demographic is...

Health Challenges to U.S. Children

serious health challenge for keeping Americans children healthy is the fact that childhood obesity has reached epidemic proportion...

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....

Comparative Analysis of United Kingdom and Uganda Regarding HIV and AIDS Progress

of health promotion models. Though a single theory may not provide a complete perspective, the study of several theories can buil...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

U.S. Public Places and a Smoking Ban

So great is the health dangers ETS represents, the United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies ETS as "a group A carc...

Health Care and End of Life Decisions

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

Therapeutic Relationship Between Nurse and Client

36). Both a therapeutic and social relationship are featured in the film Good Will Hunting (1997). The protagonist in the film, ...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

Similarities and Differences in Health Care Statutes

by ten years in prison and an undetermined fine. One of the most obvious differences between this statute and the others is that ...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

Maryland Startup of a Home Health Agency

the home health segment of local health care. Owners The owners are two registered nurses (RNs), only one of whom will be a...

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...

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...

UK Government Health Strategy Critique

get treatment, this has resulted in these areas of highest public visibility gaining most of the attention which meant the strateg...

Peruvian Americans, Culture and Society

an equilibrium and patients may have difficulty discussing depression openly (OMH, 2005). Another Hispanic health belief is that...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

A Health Care Fraud Opinion

not just the physician but also the office assistant. The lesson that this case provides is that agreements regarding fraudulent ...

Workplace Safety, Health, and Disputes

rather a lack of system. All the staff who want a job done, such as records retrieved or a letter typing think it is the most impo...

An Article on Genetic Testing Reviewed

risk factor, or to become vigilant in getting periodic tests, in the hopes of catching the disease in its early stages; however, t...

Health Care in India and the U.S. and Its Social Aspects

The advent and growth of health insurance was a great advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving he...

Managed Care Power and Its Effects

staff or group model HMOs would provide all health care by the mid-1990s, but, in actuality, such HMOs have been declining in numb...

Overview of the Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards

of standards with sets of criteria that must achieved. Standards related to information management span the operations of the orga...

Heart Disease Prevention and the Role of a Canadian Nurse

their web site with which this nursing organization is involved. For instance, the AACN promotes a specific cardiovascular health ...