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Defining and Applying Public Health

innovations as penicillin and automobile seat belts. It encompasses the provisions that are used to insure a safe blood supply an...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

Arterial Blood Pressure, Arteriosclerosis, and Hypertension

of atherosclerosis, and the progression of correlated hypertension and myocardial dysfunction (Katz, 1990). The pursuit of conti...

Process of Health Promotion in the Media vs. Peer/Family Influence for Individual Change

be argued, then, that peer and family factors play a major role in how health messages are spread to change at-risk behaviors. Pu...

Health Benefits of Child and Adolescent Exercise

children who are inactive because of television viewing. This study found that children who were inactive because of television v...

Health Care - Studies on Governance

Developing New Nurse Leaders also considers the issue of shifts in leadership and governance, with a focus on the role of nurses a...

Clinical Family Health Promotion Outcomes Analysis

intervention protocols. In particular, this model has been utilized to consider the way in which health professionals address beh...

Professional Nursing Dimensions

ethnic distribution of the population in Paramus: White Non-Hispanic (75.5%) Hispanic (4.9%) Korean (4.8%) Asian Indian (4.5%...

William Glasser's Cognitive-Behavioral Approach, A Case Study

out various psychological situations. No longer is such treatment considered taboo in a world where mental imbalance is quite pre...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Health Care Industry and Medication Errors

potential for depression. It stands to reason, therefore, that if nurses in critical care units are experiencing higher rates of ...

Health Care Industry and Demand Induced by Suppliers

for patients, there is a conflict between personal interest (through induced demand) and the interest of patients (Induced Demand,...

Policy Memo on Massachusetts' Single Payer Health Care

the United States is that this population generally consists of middle class families and children. In 1991, there were almost 36...

Obesity and American Health

determine what is normal or clinically notable. For example, a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m ( Must, Spadano & Coakley et al., 19...

Dementia and Mental Health Problem Origins

where, after an initial stage of processing the information will be divided up, for example, one stream of information may concern...

Health Care Costs Problems

States is that this population generally consists of middle class families and children. In 1991, there were almost 36 million Am...

Overview of Health Tourism Industry

host country both by increasing tourism, and by increasing the consumption of health and medical services" (WATIC, 2005). In...

Annotated Bibliography on Health Tourism

funding. This article is important because it raises issues of ethics, questions of control and question of the potential problem...

Human Health and Impact of the Environment

et. al. (2000), for example, reemphasizes the importance of links made in the 1970s between male infertility and exposure to pesti...

Exercise and Bone Health

New York State Physical Education curriculum standards: Physical Education 1: Personal Health and Fitness 1.a. perform basic m...

Historical View of United Kingdom's Social Health Care Policies

of the welfare state. Poor relief, as granted under the poor laws, was available only to those who could nit provide for themselve...

Suggestions for Home Health Care Services' Marketing

with the patient. The problem with this, however, is that therapists and other health care providers dont necessarily have time to...

Kids and Florida's Health Services

that these clients experienced greater satisfaction and access than those receiving care on a fee-for-service basis (Rosenbach, Ir...

Regulatory Agencies for Managed Care

In most states, regulations concerning private managed care companies and programs are put forth primarily by the states insurance...

Outline of Health Care Fraudulent Billing

p. 5). Since that amendment, far more cases have been successfully prosecuted (Hawryluk, 2004). In 2003, for instance, the Federal...

Patients with Suppressed Immune Systems and Basic Precautions

made of cotton or cotton blends, which absorb rather than repel fluids. One of the most important precautions that a nurse can t...

Health Services and the Effects of Computer Technology

health services" (McConnell, 1996). Computers can fill out forms, transfer phone calls and gather data, among many other abilitie...

New Home Health Service Planning

age of 65, representing 21.1 percent of the households in the area (DP-1, n.d.). The number of San Antonio residents over the age...

San Antonio New Home Health Service Planning

age of 65, representing 21.1 percent of the households in the area (DP-1, n.d.). The number of San Antonio residents over the age...

Prescription Drug Problems

plan, while several public and private sects continue to fight for prescription drugs coverage. Election 2002 revisited the issue...