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Drug Abuse and the Elderly

Abstract Substance abuse among the elderly is growing problem. Substance...

TB Still Claims Millions of Lives

are 53,000 new TB cases in the country each year and about 10,000 die from this disease (UNAMA, 2012). That is a rate of about 38 ...

Aspects of Substance Abuse

For example, the Addictive Personality theory maintains that addiction is not due to the chemical effect of the drug, but rather i...

Addressing the Needs of Women Veterans

examination of the describes the bills intended goals and outcomes regarding their achievement of greater social equality and reso...

Counseling Issues in Substance Abuse Treatment

population, with the largest demographic designation being individuals of mixed race, as they comprise 6 percent of the population...

Noncompliant CHF Patients, A Health Education Intervention

regards to taking prescribed medications is a common phenomenon among patients. It has been estimated that roughly 10 percent of a...

Pressyres Teenagers Face

is rampant and the increasing rise in cyber-bullying has led too many adolescents to attempting suicide with many succeeding. Soci...

Criminal Offenses and Substance Abuse

with 0 meaning definitely not and 100 meaning definitely. A definite score indicating mental illness caused the person to commit t...

MOTIVATIONAL INTERVIEWING AND THE ROAD TO RECOVERY

principles: 1) express empathy; 2) develop discrepancy; 3) avoid argumentation; 4) deal with, or "roll with" resistance and 5) sup...

The Elderly and Substance Abuse

then developing a quantitative instrument for assessing risk behaviors related to the onset of substance abuse behaviors among the...

A STRATEGIC OVERVIEW OF INDIAN HEALTH SERVICE

Natives (Indian Health Services, 2012). The HIS is the principal federal health care provider and advocate for American Indians, a...

Health Histories and Self-Critiques - A Sample

the cancer come for me at last". - Past History Mr. Skuulovich reported a lifelong history of combatting illness and diseases, ...

Family Homelessness and the Impact on Health and Healthcare Provision

as an increased occurrence in low income families it has also been noted that members of minority populations are also over repres...

UTI's Planning Health Program

rates per 100,000 by ethnicity in San Francisco are reported as: African-American, 1,302; Asian/Pacific Islander, 446; Latino, 535...

Government Involvement in Health

It also freed Blue Cross from the traditional laws that governed insurance companies. The justification for this status was that t...

Determining Premiums

the following: male is 32 years old, which has a risk weight of 0.22; he has diabetes with significant co-morbidities for a risk w...

Community Mental Health Movement, An Overview

to address such social welfare needs as housing and job training (Ritter and Lampkin 11). Social bias against the people sufferi...

The Government Role in Health Care

Health care is something that should be available to everyone. At the same time, it isnt logical to expect to...

HB326, A Louisiana Bill

issues that contraindicate the effectiveness and utility of this legislation, as passage of HB326 facilitates the delivery of emer...

INTERDISCIPLINARY RELATIONSHIPS AND HEALTH CARE

EDs x-rays or MRIs onto the priority list for whatever reason. The result is a lot of misunderstanding between the departments: ED...

Health in Zimbabwe

of basic commodities" (Zimbabwe: Introduction, 2011). Consequently, the Government of National Unity (GNU), which was establish...

Substance Abuse in Older Populations

processes, and appropriate diagnosing, as well as proposing specific interventions that can be used and preventative strategies fo...

Masturbation and Sexual Health - Exploring the Cultural Perceptions

unspoken assumption that masturbation is somehow morally wrong, or even detrimental. In other words, the alternative theories are ...

Principles for Ensuring Health and Safety in a Working Environment

with different elements; together they give a good overview. The first principle is that all workers have rights, this principle...

Health Policy and the Role of Public Health Nurses

These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...

UK's National Health Service, Health Care Assistants and Their Professional Development

single assessment process will allow, with Gladyss permission, for information to be shared between the different professionals th...

Article Review of 'Health Inequalities and the Health of the Poor' by Gwatkins

"...it must also be recognized that, although the health sector is not necessarily the most important channel for dealing with ine...

Mental Health Therapy Options, Maintenance of Treating Mental Health Issues, and Cost Effective Measures

Cost-Effective Mental Health Care a) 12-Step Self-Help Group Therapies Researchers at the Stanford University School...

HEALTH CARE ACT AND MENTAL HEALTH

this rhetoric was how the act would impact the millions of people in the United States who suffer from emotional or physical disor...

Case Study of the United Kingdom's National Health Service Direct and Mental Health Provision

the telephone as well as the Internet and walk in centres, to answer queries form patients in the effort to reduce the number of v...