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healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

care is to formulate a health care system and workforce that possesses the skill and understanding required to deliver quality hea...

need of treatment following tours in Rwanda, the Balkans and Somalia" (Auld). Mental health problems in regards to soldiers retu...

defining the leadership characteristics that would be the focus of this educational effort (Pintar, Capuano and Rosser, 2007). As ...

generalized research which took place many years ago. In more recent years there has been research that can be seen as specificall...

In this paper we will look at some of these macro environmental changes including changes in the demographics of workers, such as ...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

refers to being allergic to multiple forms of stimuli. Chronic illness not only impacts the patient, but also the patients family ...

a concise, but thorough description of the study that certainly will engage the interest of any healthcare professional researchin...

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

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

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

topic has been anecdotal in nature, therefore, Banks and Banks (2002) designed a study utilizing pet therapy, or as they term it, ...

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

look for the date that the page was last updated to ensure that the latest health information on that subject is offered. The last...

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

the aggregate value of offering health coverage to all citizens is likely to be greater than the estimated costs of providing this...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

But, it also refers to the fact that nurses "shape and transform the environment" as well as offer care within the context of an e...

This paper has two sections: psychosocial factors that affect health and an appraisal of two journal articles. The first section p...