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Medicalization

the degree to which homosexuality may be a medical condition. The medical profession has since moved on from this approach and the...

Legalizing Marijuana

from pot bootleggers" (ONeill, 2002; NA). The above statement presents many of the arguments in favor of legalizing marijuana. F...

Policy Proposal: Preventing Assault

you have a potentially volatile atmosphere" (Hughes, 2005). Kowalenko, Walters, Khare, and Compton (2005) surveyed 171 ED p...

The Dangers Of Smoking

to break. To bring the point home, half a million people die each year from cigarette-related causes (Whelan, 1994, p. 77), with ...

Trends in Human Resource Issues: Medical Insurance

seem to be deteriorating as premiums increase and many believe that the nation is experiencing a health care crisis. Health policy...

Physician Induced Demand: Examples From Obstretics

on physician induced demand. Turcotte, Robst and Polachek (2005) observe the relationship that exists between the cost of a servi...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET): The Potential Pitfalls of Reimbursement

availability of such reimbursement, however, comes the potential for certain pitfalls. Those pitfalls include the overuse of the ...

Impact Of Chronic Illness On The Elderly And Families

medications or they could be a sign of depression (Turner and Kelly, 2000). Turner and Kelly (2000) state strongly that it is e...

Overcrowding in Prisons

fewer than 200,000 inmates (Golembeski and Fullilove, 2005). The Washington Post reported on December 1, 2006 that the U.S. prison...

Arguments in Favor of Legalizing Marijuana for Medical Use

are important issues and deserve attention because they will shape our nations future. Clearly we can build more and more prisons,...

Information Needs Of Doctors And Nurses

it comes to orders, medications, tests, transfers and so on. Another problem for both physicians and nurses is identifying all p...

Are Payday Loans Legalized Loan-Sharking?

(Loan Shark, n.d.). There are two distinctions here that clearly separate payday loan businesses from loan sharks. The fir...

Case Study Analysis (Tuberculosis)

Also, the kind of level or evidence presented by the quote is limited. There are merely charges shown, but no proof or evidence is...

The Promotion of Health and Wellness in the Workplace

acceptable for work, but they recognize that a happy and healthy employee is a good employee. Some places of business offer free i...

The Effects of Hurricane Katrina

there had been speculation as to the reason for the devastation, it does not appear to have been from global warming. Katrina was ...

Medical Jargon as a Communication Barrier

Bagley looks at the problem as rather simplistic and uses the example that it is just as easy to say that word kidney as it is to ...

Running For A Seat In the U.S. House Of Representatives

will be addressing political concerns as opposed to focusing upon the war being waged between Democrats and Republicans. Th...

Mobile Women's Wellness Center Marketing Plan

ten years. Creating a means for women to access health care and health information in a more convenient and affordable manner aff...

Decreasing Low Birth Weights and Decreasing Infant Mortality

the same time, researchers have also argued that in the year 2002, children in the United States are somewhat less likely to die d...

Canada and Electronic Order Entry

and harmful adverse drug events dropped to 0.03 per 1,000 doses from 0.05 per 1,000 doses. This equals the prevention of one harmf...

Action and Self Analysis Plan for Health

Health Analysis The ten areas covered in this analysis are: risk for stroke; cancer genetics; high blood pressure and renal dise...

US Aliens and Rights

human beings, and nowhere is that more clear than in the realm of constitutional rights" (Cole, 2006). However, in truth, non-citi...

Essays on Health Care

before, with the result that there is a "pill" for virtually any physical condition. Individuals taking any kind of ethical drug ...

Impact of Managed Care

that the government did not intend when establishing Medicare in the 1960s. At present, Medicare virtually rules all of Ame...

Scholastic Issues

with a few of the students laughed. Most of the students did not even see Sam trip but, typical to Sam,...

Morality, Politics, and Ecology

substances that will remain in the soil for many future decades. Current EPA findings indicate that even the most sophisticated o...

PhysicianOffice Software Marketing Plan

experience and former medical office managers who know well the requirements of medical offices administrative needs and the chang...

Hospital Compliance Plan Revision

trail," the discrepancy can result in a billing error that no one intended. Government regulations contain specific require...

Literature Review on Dementia and Healthcare Employee Attitudes

but fully 60 percent of charts of reporting skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) make no mention of any behavioral interventions prio...

Euclid's Hospital Health Care Data Protection

feel that ongoing, regular access to and the use of health information is essential to achieve important public health objectives ...