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Discusses Brill's Time magazine article "The Bitter Pill," and its impact on the politics and economics of the U.S. healthcare sys...

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

all areas are hit equally, the total federal government spend on health is budgeted to increase, from a total of $51,223 million i...

defined this as "the capacity of the health system to function effectively over time with a minimum of external". It has become in...

is currently being satisfied and assess that solution as a form of competition. For example, it is possible that there is already ...

In the US there is a requirement for healthcare organizations to use electronic health records (HER), also known as electronic pat...

helping clients "to understand and clarify their views of their life-space, and to learn to reach their self-determined goals thro...

(Kemp, 2005). In American mainstream culture, making eye contact is expected, as this indicates that the other person is listening...

part of their academic preparation knowledge that pertains to how "to initiate, plan and manage change" (Elser, McClanahan and Gre...

a major relapse when they are adults (Olfson et al, 2003). Therefore treatment at an early stage may help prevent later episodes. ...

four major informatics theories and a discussion of the Data, Information and Knowledge (DIK) model. This is followed by an overvi...

method of evaluation identifies different measures where there may be a gap between the level of service expected and that gained....

Florida senator Mel Martinez who has introduced the Senior and Taxpayers Obligation Protection (STOP) Act (S. 975) in May 2009 (An...

nurses can become political active, as these organizations frequently play an active role in establishing public policy by publica...

In thirty pages this paper discusses the organizational structural impact upon the healthcare industry's dramatic transformation i...

In this paper consisting of seven pages the issues involved in determining HIV and AIDS policies as well as their impact in terms ...

In eleven pages drug price control as it relates to healthcare and specifically HMOs are examined in terms of the impact of health...

offer such an important and expensive benefit if they were not required to do so by law. When an individual starts a company, he...

hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because the system did not seem to either believe them about the scope of the...

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

to produce better outcomes for patients and improve the conduct and performance of nurses and other health care employees on a dai...

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

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

"It seems sensible to this author to cut off concern with the risks accompanying exposure to manmade radiation at some sensible fr...

classes to mainstream placement and expectations. Although I am mentally normal, I do have certain physical limitations which hav...

of the other mans brilliance and accomplishments. Knowlton wondered, in the back of his mind, if Fester had been brought in to rep...

lung cells and forms a coat on the interior of the tiny alveoli in the lungs where oxygen enters the bloodstream. The coating enab...

animals for whatever purpose he deems necessary without a thought for the animals needs. The issues that surround animal rights a...

such that people are living longer, and when combined with the demographic changes now underway, the result is expected to greatly...

dangerous to use, are things like industrial and investment policies. The everyday tool, powerful but enormously more flexible, is...