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Overview of Healthcare and Cultural Attitudes

put in their mouths. The concern was so great, that during the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Meningitis and Africans in a Cultural Competency Case Study

right? Not as visible a cause as AIDS, nor as prevalent in the news as Cancer, Meningitis will be a difficult sell to this segmen...

Bally's and the Fitness Industry

II. The Gym Industry The health club industry has been shown to be tough during even the most difficult economic times ("Indu...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Mental Health Agency Organizational Change

money for upgrades and improvements. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cu...

Emotions and Health

in a joint effort by the American Psychological Association and the Mayo Clinic demonstrated that there are significant advantages...

Marketing Campaign Case Study Development

to re-launch this service to this target market with a budget of ?1,000. The best way to look at this is to consider the theory be...

Austria's Health Care Financial System Positioning

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

National Health Service and Complementary Medicine

homeopathic medicine and complementary therapies have been in Englands NHS (Evidence Influencing British Health Authorities Decisi...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Overview of the WHO

offset incoming pathogens (Anonymous, 1996). Not surprisingly, the "erosion of the public health infrastructure" of the World Hea...

Diesel Fuel Emissions and Their Detrimental Impact Upon Health

Diesel emissions are more hazardous than emissions from gasoline engines (Auto Pollution, 2002). Studies have found that...

Health Care Crisis and Economics

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

Overview of Mental Health Courts

is not an issue in Missouris Boone County, however. There, the local Mental Health Board of Trustees has the power to bypass the ...

Controversy Regarding the Elderly and Prescription Drug Coverage

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

Health Care and Situational Leadership

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

Regulation of HMOs

(Sullivan, 2000). His regular doctor did not send him to the hospital, he sent Joseph to a nursing home with instructions to call ...

Ethnicity and Health

more difficult to conduct trials in populations with varied ethnicities. She states that "other studies have shown that the effect...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Corporate Conspiracy of 'Junk Food'

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

Rationing Health Care and Ethics

where there is reduced access and denial of necessary services to patients in general (Lens, 2002). This situation causes increa...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Competitive Markets and Health Care

criticized for cutting costs when it comes to health care delivery. For another thing, consumers generally make a choice o...

Different Careers in Nursing

nurses which makes job searching easier. Registered nurses are in great demand and it is thought that there will be a significa...

World Health Impact of Dust Storms

far as the mouth, nose or throat. Finer particles by contrast are able to reach deeper into the respiratory system, more easily i...

'Health as Expanding Consciousness' Nursing Philosophy of Margaret Newman

from disease to non-disease to health. She argues that "This synthesized view incorporates disease as meaningful aspect of health...

Great Britain and Medical Provision Between 1845 and 1954

pioneering hygienist. Here they were able to prove a different reason for the death rate of the patients at the hospital. The hosp...

Health Care and Paternalism vs. Autonomy

can be tricky. There are always hypochondriacs or the medically educated who do not necessarily agree with the doctors findings. P...

Community Mental Health Practice and Communication

to three days more than 20 years ago. We ruefully joke that some managed care plans only allow new mothers to be hospitalized on ...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....