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Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke on Children

risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke: even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to peoples health"...

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...

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...

Abstract for Article on Diabetes Screening

criterion for inclusion in the study as all children previously diagnosed with type 2 diabetes were excluded. Body mass index (B...

All About the Alexander Technique

(Goldberg, 2004). Alexanders clients found that his Technique not only helped them with breathing problems, but also a number of...

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 Issues and the Health Issues of the West Family

her, per se, but rather with her expectations of Madeline, which are not age appropriate. The scenario says that Madeline knows be...

New Company Safety Program Development

defined as "An examination of records or financial accounts to check their accuracy" (Dictionary.com, 2005). If this is applied to...

Health Care System Problems and Theoretical Appications

make a real difference. In helping professions, such leadership is desirable. The health care industry today is fraught with probl...

Proposed Nursing Communication Project

suggestions for future action in regards to this problem. Section A: Problem identification The Problem and its importance The G...

Catastrophic Tsunami of 2004

be taken care of, and so, the economic effects were only temporary. The post-tsunami relief effort had included attention to commu...

Annotated Bibliography on Nationalized Health Care

Press Releases (June 2000). Wyoming Senator Says Dem Plan Would Lead to a Nationalized Healthcare System. This the speech of a...

Home Health Care Services' Market Structure

income" (Helms, 2001). The policy was established during WWII at a time when providing health care to workers was relatively inex...

Father and Daughter Health Issues

or prevent smoking. The difficult with many studies are the way they look only to specific conditions. The American Heart Associa...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

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 ...

Aboriginal Community Needs Assessment

of Australian society. Racism is, in fact, one of the primary shapers of contemporary Australian society. In the nineteenth cent...

Animals and Their Therapeutic Benefits

social contact with others. They may be lost in their own world because they are essentially put into a retirement home and left t...

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...

Best Media Selection

after work. This alone is no sufficient to determine the target market and as such the media that can be used. If we look more c...

Should Health Care Be Considered a Right in the U.S.?

discussion. It is a way to present his theory on justice and what is right and wrong. Rawls view is basically that any rational h...

States of Consciousness

is indicative of REM sleep. If one has reached Stage IV, it is indicative that one will shortly be entering the REM stage where d...

A Marketing Campaign Assessment

unlikely to be able to run a country effectively. This is then supported wit the careful leaking of news stories and also unexpect...

Restraint Uses in Psychiatric Nursing

Yet both organizations also observe that, sometimes, it is necessary to use seclusion and restraint, as a last resort, in order to...

CAM in Mainstream Medicine and in the Future

invest billions annually on alternative approaches to healthcare (Allen, 2005). The National Institutes of Health estimates that ...

Health Care Industry, Confidentiality, and Whistle Blowing

importance of whistle blowers has been realised in the last decade, those on the inside of an organisation have the advantage of p...