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HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

Historical Consideration of Health Management Organizations

In eight pages this paper considers HMOs in terms of their health care system significance and reasons behind their development. ...

Biblical verses Christian Variations in Mental Health Counseling

This five page paper broaches the subtle yet important differences between these counseling approaches, differences that can be so...

Managed Care Cost

In five pages this paper examines increasing health care costs in the U.S. in a consideration of managed care criticisms, provides...

Health Security Act of the Clinton Administration

In fourteen pages this essay discusses the Clinton Administration's proposed health care reforms and the controversy they have ini...

PPOs v. HMOs

an employer. Under the HMO system the traditional fee-for-service setup of medicine in which a doctor is paid for each patient vis...

Managing Managed Health Care

In a paper consisting of ten pages managed health care system's many challenges are discussed with HMOs specifically addressed in ...

Future of Managed Care and Specialized Laboratories

In nine pages this paper discusses managed care in a consideration of future roles of specialized laboratories as detailed under n...

Health Care Ethics and Tort Law

what actions are morally right, and which are morally wrong. As such, it is an area of study with a great deal of ambiguity. There...

Health Care Marketing - A Binary Approach

purposes of this example, one might consider Southwest General Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. This facility makes for a good exam...

Health Care Funding Alternatives

recently become one of the most controversial and important of all political discussions. Having dominated the debates surrounding...

Three Leadership Styles Compared

reciprocating" (p. 169). Transactional leaders tend to live by certain values. These include honesty, integrity, fairness and acc...

The Health Care Industry and Electronic Communication

one technologically based communication modality-e-mail, a web-based forum, and so forth- involving patients and health care provi...

HEALTHCARE AND NEEDS FOR AN AGING POPULATION

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

A Plan to Reduce Obesity

intake and the general type of diet which is consumed and the need for a nutritional balance physical activity is also an importan...

Patient Privacy and Health Care Ethics - An Organizational Study

Florida cancer center, one can successfully examine how organizational structure and governance, as well as an organizations cultu...

HEALTH CARE AND LEGISLATION

newspapers and magazines understands that the "Big Kahuna" of health care regulations involves the Patient Protection and Affordab...

Overview of the Federal Civil False Claims Act

in 1999 alone "returned almost $500 million to the federal government." (Butler, 2000, 1). The first question to consider...

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...

UK's National Health Services and Decision Making

This position is acknowledged by the government in its document The Expert Patient (DoH, 2002). However, Powers (2002) also points...

Asthma and Public Health Surveillance

effective methods for control in place for asthma and how have treatment measures changed over time? 4. What is the cost of asthm...

Contemporary Women and Sexism

Women At the turn of the century, very few women worked outside of their own home. Many women actually were very intelligent and ...

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...

Demand for Cigarettes and the Impact of Taxation

of tobacco usage and the tobacco industry has changed dramatically. While cigarettes were once an ubiquitous part of American "hig...

The Interdisciplinary Value of Complex Adaptive Systems

past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

Defining and Applying Public Health

innovations as penicillin and automobile seat belts. It encompasses the provisions that are used to insure a safe blood supply an...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Article Review of 'Free Mental Health Benefits for Returning Soldiers'

grant from the Community Health Improvement Fund of the Moses Cone-Wesley Long Community Health Foundation (Townsend, 2005). Hence...