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American Society and the Distribution of Health Care

In six pages health care system distribution in the United States is considered in a discussion of why the Clinton proposal failed...

How Health is Defined by 2 Theories of Nursing

A definition of health according to 2 theories of nursing is examined in a research paper consisting of five pages. Four sources ...

Health Care, Organization, and Metaphor

In five pages this report examines metaphor in a consideration of the health care organizational environment. Three sources are c...

1996's HIPAA

In six pages the 1996 bill the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act is examined in an overview of privacy and secur...

Health Care Delivery Trends

In five pages the effects of various health care practices and trends upon the nursing field are examined. Five sources are cited...

Low Income Adults, Children, and Oral Health in the United States

In ten pages this report discusses how inadequate care regarding oral health is received by impoverished children and adults with ...

Specific Health Care Problems of the Homeless

This paper discusses how the community can address homeless problems regarding health care access in 5 pages. Seven sources are c...

Managed Care in the Future

In five pages this paper defines health care management and then considers changes and what adaptations management will have to ma...

Abortion Issue and Midwives

unsafe by those who practice the procedure unskilled and unprepared for complications should they arise. So why do women still con...

Managing Stress in the Critical Incident

148). An integral component to temperament and personality in professional counseling for first line responders deals with compet...

System of National Health Care and the U.S.

51% ("Health Insurance," 1997, p.PG) of the 31 million Americans who have no insurance, maintaining that they do not carry it simp...

The Dioxins as Lingering Agent Orange Problems

evidence". Agent orange has gained the most notoriety in its use as a defoliant in the Vietnam War. It has been the...

Advance Directives and Right to Life Decisions

This paper consists of five pages and discusses how the Patient Self Determination Act of 1990 pertains to health proxies, living ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

Golf and Its Benefits to Health

The connection between body and mind is unmistakable, particularly in relation to the positive benefits of golf. As advantageous ...

The Environmental Impact of the Element Cadmium

of problems with cadmium have not been ignored. Such concerns have been voiced over the past twenty-year or so and early issues h...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Health Care System of Canada

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...

4 Traditional Metaparadigms in Nursing

Under her wing, Nightingale took care of the soldiers while at the same time training other women to "nurse" them back to health. ...

Metaparadigms and Nursing

and with others interacting with the patient. Mezirow (1991) promotes the use of critical reflection in building new knowle...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

The European PHEC and the American DTC

advertising in the US Since the mid-1980s, the FDA has allowed DTC advertising in the US. Originally, a few DTC ads were allowed ...

Public Health and Welfare Reform from Both Sides of the Issue

that speaks to the need to encourage otherwise nonproductive members of society to become more instrumental in their own well bein...

Future Trends in Managed Care

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

Australia's System of Criminal Justice and Mental Illness

evidence in a large amount of literature that there is a link between mental illness and crimes (Drake and Pathe, 2004). T...

Dept. of Health and Human Services' Organizational Structure

nurses and other hospital personnel spend more than 30 minutes doing paperwork for each hour they provide patient care (Brown, 200...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...