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THE RISING COSTS OF HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES

doctors and hospitals who have no problems charging a patient three dollars for an aspirin tablet. Its also easy to point the fing...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Global Warming and Global Health

global warming associated with an increase in environmental pollution from greenhouse gases could lead to an expanded range of ano...

Family and Health Promotion

this indicates, family is incorporated into and valued within the realm of pediatric nursing practice as a factor that is crucial ...

Allocating Health Services

saving technology. This may seem cruel but the doctors and hospitals surely do not work for free and as such monetary issues are c...

DOES THE U.S. NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM?

States will cost a lot. There just isnt enough to do so. But Welch (2005) points out that a universal health care policy doesnt ha...

The Challenges of Being an Advocate and Neutral Facilitator (Mediator)

Obviously, the relationship that is formed between a mental health advocate and his or her client is critical. This relationship ...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Health care is a Right vs. Health Care is a Privilege

The other ideological camp would be the socialist camp, a camp comprised of those that believe health care is a universal right. ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Social Work in Managed Care

figure would increase greatly in coming years (Cohen, 2003). There are twelve basic areas of social work practice, with each ar...

Nursing Management Issue/Medication Error

systems. The following examination of the problem of medication errors focuses on the context of mental health nursing within the ...

Universal Health Care Policy

such as Massachusetts and California, the pros and cons of universal health care and others. Some of the articles reviewed are lis...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

The Positive and Negative Effects of Using Cloning to Treat Genetic Disease

Switching around an embryos mitochondria might appear innocent enough but we must realize that mitochondrial genes act well outsid...

USING A SWOT ANALYSIS TO DEVELOP NEW SERVICE OR HEALTH CARE PROGRAM

a machine, as it were, even if the machine is connected to a health-care professional on the other end. Along those lines,...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Alcohol Abuse and Public Health

(Time for coordinated action on alcohol, 2004). It is particularly dangerous to young people, who are more likely than anyone else...

Assessment of Independent Living

she does "light housekeeping," which is also not consistent with someone who needs assistance getting out of bed. However, the stu...

Family Systems Theory

in psychoanalytical theory away from a focus on individual and towards a focus on the whole. While psychoanalysts had previously ...

Advanced Nursing Practice and Family Theory: Lessons From the Movie “Thirteen”

begins using drugs, stealing, experimenting with sex, and seeking out more radical means of self mutilation. Each of these change...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

Six Issues in Public Health

way through a crowd of smokers as they enter or leave the building (Smoke-free one year later, 2008). Smoking is a recognized caus...

Marketing and Health Care

with more knowledge than they may have had in the past. On the other hand, as they say, too much knowledge can be dangerous. Physi...

Health Care: Questions On Two Articles

4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next...

An Evaluation of EMTALA

costs ("American Academy of Emergency Management: EMTALA," 2008). In some cases, patients without insurance would be sent to a cou...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

Being a Man in the 1999 Film Boys Don’t Cry

petty crime - such as writing bad checks - to pay for these procedures and as long as he perpetuates the illusion of being a male,...