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Mental Health Services and the Elderly

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Americans 65 years or older increased by 74 percent between 1970 and 1999, from roughly 20 mi...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

The Common Factors Approach to Psychotherapy

"encouragement of facing probl4ems/fears, support of efforts to master problems/ears, affective experiencing/catharsis" (Coady 15)...

ENTREPRENEURIAL PROCESS AND HEALTH CARE DELIVERY

launching a business). And what about competitive advantage? This is great if the opportunity is a "first-mover," in other words, ...

Meeting the Access Target

per week, which is a strategy designed to improve access to care and achieving NHS target goals. The NHS has established HNAs as a...

Universal Health Plan -Stakeholder Communication

television commercials to scare the public (Greene, 2008). The couple, Harry and Louise, was sitting at their kitchen table mockin...

Universal Health Care Policy

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

MARKETING, HEALTH CARE AND ETHICS

outgoing because of the particular medication. And yes, the commercials list the side effects, but usually as an afterthought. Bec...

Why an Employer Should Create a Tuition Reimbursement Program

be grateful to their employer for the benefit and also, might want to stay at least until they complete their schooling. Of course...

Health Research: Staph Infections

R. Monina Klevens. Klevens suggests that staph infections "may be twice as common as previously thought" (Sack, 2007, p. A3). If t...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

ISO 9000 And Malcolm Baldrige Award

systems." The author explains that ISO 9000 can help institutional health care providers who must comply with the standards establ...

The Impact Of Hurricane Andrew

scholarly catalogs; journals will include - but not be limited to - Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Journal of En...

Americans Should be Thankful for What They Have

have to lose their home over medical bills. Of course, a representative from the insurance industry was there and did explain that...

Cigarette Smoking in Adolescence (Article Review)

things also play a role in the analysis. While a variety of things are examined, and statistics complied, there is seemingly only ...

Changes at Intel

had out-earned Intel. Intels response has been to lower prices on its PC chips (Edwards, 2006); additional revenue from other sou...

Culturally Competent Care/Duke University Health System

could be applied towards unmet standards. Culturally competent care at Duke University Health System It has been determined by ...

Taking a Toddler’s Blood Pressure

pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...

Using Crew Resource Management In Health Care

into other industries. Medicine and health care is one of the industries that have begun adopting the CRM process. In fact, the In...

Disease Surveillance; A Literature Review For Research Into Attitude And Practice Of Ministry Of Health Physicians Toward the Surveillance System In Saudi Arabia

a history of proactive surveillance beginning in 1933 when a rule decree was implemented in order to help prevent the spread of co...

Evaluating A Health Promotion Pamphlet

it seems appropriate to suggest that a picture that appears less "faded" would be appropriate in conveying the message that the in...

The Ethics of Death and Dying: Is There a Duty to Die?

right to live if it is possible, one could well argue that it is never anyones duty to die. Battins essay, however, speaks of th...

Howard Frumkin's "Environmental Health" - Chapter 11 Analysis

will be five days from now. Their "job" as protectors of the sea is being severely threatened as they decline in mass with every ...

Epidemiology And Infectious Disease Prevention: West Nile Virus

individual who had West Nile virus (Altman, 2002). The disease, which spreads by a bite from an infected mosquito, can be inflict...

Collaboration in a Health Care Setting

resolution skills" (Gardner, 2005). Here, conflict is not seen as a problem or difficult but an opportunity to bring out various p...

OCCUPATION, HEALTH AND WELL-BEING

Even in agrarian times, there was a task for everyone to do - and people were well occupied. As we moved into...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...