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Health Care Product Marketing

favorable. For one thing, patients typically complain of excessive pain in relation to the treatment, and this pain does not alway...

Disparities in Cancer Health

at the greatest risks for cancer 20% of whites lack insurance coverage, and have a much lower risk for cancer Speaker Notes Canc...

Changing the Views on Mental Health Care

is dedicated to the memory of Linda Anderson, research writer, mother and friend....

Holistic Patient Care: An Example

from the commune to provide support for Helen in the hospital setting. Some general concerns occurred as a result of the assessme...

School Bullying/The Effect on Bullies and Victims

(Ahmed, 2008). Witnesses may participate in bullying, either by providing verbal support for the bully; remaining silent and tryin...

Recommendations for Improving Quality of Care Through OBRA 87

ensure a complete implementation of improved infection control standards at all facilities. In order to overcome this deficiency, ...

ONC-COORDINATED FEDERAL HEALTH INFORMATION PLAN AND GRANT HOSPITAL

ultimately help develop a health information technology network that would tie together public and private health care sectors (De...

Floor Planning for Health Care Facilities

station is situated just before the facility branches into two main hallways, along either side of which are situated the twelve e...

A Day in the Life of a Mental Health Supervisor

a three-year-old whose asthma was acerbated by her familys living conditions in a run-down tenement where mildew was evident. She ...

The Bio-Psychological Approach to Health

obvious examples of the bio-psychological approachs usefulness is in the context of chronic illness. Take, for instance, a patient...

Environmental Health/Graduate School Admissions Statement

obtain a doctorate in order to achieve my long-term goals and I plan on evaluating this eventuality after completing a masters pro...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

Evaluation of a Health Promotion Pamphlet

such as the misconception that young people only the elderly are at risk for stroke, and it thoroughly describes the various risks...

Obamas Views on Immigration

Obamas 2012 State of the Union Address portrays the view that the nation is much better than it was before Obama took office. Thi...

Reflection on Community/Public Health Nursing

the provision of nursing services for early diagnosis and preventive services, the progress made over the course of the last centu...

Taking Control of Our Health

Personal health and welfare is dependent on a number of factors. Some of these factors are things that you cannot control. Some...

Overview of NMAS and its HIV/AIDS Intervention Program

housing, case management, nutritional guidance and vocational rehabilitation, as well as the development of new approaches to prev...

Two Types of Healthcare Information Systems

opportunity to lower costs, decrease errors and promote increased productivity. The following paper examines two types of healthca...

Health Care Industry - Assessing Different Financial Environments

in the western United States (Cleverley, Cleverley, & Song, 2012). Such institutions are typified by the primary goal of "sharehol...

Vapor Intrusion and Wet Scrubbing

from escaping a coal stack and polluting the air (Bishop, 2010). The chemical equation for this process is:...

The Stigma of Therapy

early detection and treatment would insure a healthier population (Blumenthal, 2011). A study of nearly 800 college students foun...

Our Imperiled Environment Our Imperiled Future

Global health is dependent on the decisions we have made in the past and on...

Electronic Medical Records - Business Incentives and Ethical Concerns

information flows between healthcare facilities; the bottom line is that legislation will have to be concerned not simply with pro...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

Tobacco and the Issues Surrounding It

History Tobacco has become fully impregnated in world society. Tobacco, of course, originated in...

Google Health: Cultural Resistance to EMR Adoption

which they referred to as Google Health (McBride, 2008). The purpose of the service was to allow users to upload personal informat...

Report Proposing the Adoption of Electronic Health Records

additional costs of transcribing existing active patient records. The implementation will also incur additional operating costs,...

Health Care Management Models

there is a pressing need to "make clinical goals specific, roles explicit, [and] processes clear" (Phillips, 2005). For instance, ...

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS: ESTABLISHING ACCEPTABILITY, BUDGETING AND PRO FORMA

he received checks back in the mail for overage. "Im not sure what was worse," he told me at one point, "going through all that pa...