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Should Employers Provide Health Insurance?

Morally and ethically employers have a duty of care to their employees, they are the source of income and as such the source of we...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

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

Research Proposal; Finding Policies to Reduce the Harmful Effects of Alcohol Use in the Aboriginal Population

alcohol harm reduction and improvements in the health of the Aboriginal population the problem has to be understood and the key dr...

The Impact of Culture in Medical Care

"how they relate to others. It influences the way patients respond to medical services and preventive interventions and impacts th...

Influences In The Market Maximized/Market Minimized Model

stimulate and change the way that the market is operating. For example, socio-economic aspects such as the way that fashions emerg...

Pet Therapy for the Elderly

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

UK Government Health Strategy Critique

get treatment, this has resulted in these areas of highest public visibility gaining most of the attention which meant the strateg...

Peruvian Americans, Culture and Society

an equilibrium and patients may have difficulty discussing depression openly (OMH, 2005). Another Hispanic health belief is that...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

4 Cultural Topics

America, by contrast, embraces a decidedly more individualistic notion of cultural behavior by virtue of its capitalistic existenc...

A Health Care Fraud Opinion

not just the physician but also the office assistant. The lesson that this case provides is that agreements regarding fraudulent ...

Environmental and Public Health Effects from Pulp and Paper Mills

always gold. The benefits the mills represent to Georgians are offset by the deleterious impact they can have on lives and lifewa...

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

Exercise and Its Benefits to Health

is suffering from this disease. Treatment for depression can include therapy and mood-elevating drugs, but it can also include ex...

Impoverished Children and Better Nutrition Promotion

spiral effect of poor nutrition, Americas obesity epidemic now has led to the emergence of a developing diabetes epidemic as well ...

U.S. Public Places and a Smoking Ban

So great is the health dangers ETS represents, the United States Environmental Protection Agency classifies ETS as "a group A carc...

Health Care and End of Life Decisions

become a prominent question in the care of patients. Society and medical practitioners continually face many dilemmas at the end ...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Nursing and Mandatory Overtime

issue of regulatory interest when attached to direct patient care (Nursing, 2004). As few nurses with no patient responsibilities...

Maryland Startup of a Home Health Agency

the home health segment of local health care. Owners The owners are two registered nurses (RNs), only one of whom will be a...

Similarities and Differences in Health Care Statutes

by ten years in prison and an undetermined fine. One of the most obvious differences between this statute and the others is that ...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Africa and Promoting the Immunization of Children

II. Population The target population for this inquiry are children of the world. However, the population needs to be narrowed as...

Health and Alcohol

social problems associated with poverty and over crowding. In more recent decades the increased use by those under stress, on the ...

Medicare's Part D and Its Impact

dressed in a hat and white cotton gloves, and her dress has lace-trimmed collar and cuffs with a small bouquet of violets containi...

Overview of Sinusitis

whatever substances that have become trapped in it) toward openings known as ostia, which lead to a passageway in the back of the ...

Overview of Metabolic Syndrome

shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome.) An...

Homeless and Health Care

problems "are extremely high among the homeless population" (NCH Fact Sheet #8, 2005). In fact, homeless persons are far more li...

Happiness, Psychological Health, Scholastic Success, and Intelligence

be a two way argument, There is also little doubt that this did not bring him happiness. With these examples and the...

Health and Environmental Issues

are caused by occupational hazards and exposures (Eyles and Consitt, 2004). The epidemic of lifestyle diseases is the label given...