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Where Philosophy and Reality Meet Accessibility to and the cost of health care have been overriding issues...

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

Over twice as many people have been infected with HIV than was initially projected; over 42 million people have been infected sinc...

protection. It seems that the purpose of the old system was typical as the facility needed communications. However, in health care...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

sense that it is actively intended to cause harm, but negligence occurs when it is established that any reasonable person would ha...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

has lost market share without making any changes aside from the package that consumers no longer recognize as being their old and ...

plan was due to fail on several fronts. First the plan itself was way too broad - and way too much for...

measuring device is used, there is less need for the student to discuss the reliability and accuracy of the instruments. Statisti...

public policy. These groups are normally organized for the purpose of being with people of like-minded moral reasons for the soci...

have different health care needs than their non-disabled counterparts (Donegan Shoaf, 1999). Medi-Cal is one such health c...

problems with its water supplies as extensive deforestation has taken place over the last century which have taken its toll on the...

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...

since 1947. The healthcare system is actually run by "its 10 provinces and three territories, but is governed by federal guideline...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

industry and primary care access; homecare access; and the new legislation proposed in regards to the entire health human resource...

of the patients in a single unit will be assigned to one RN; the other half will be assigned to another. Another will be availabl...

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

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...

Hamilton View proposes to provide a full range of options for seniors, beginning with independent living, moving into assisted liv...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...