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Threats to American Health/Chronic Disease v. Contagion

people, also indicating that this flu pandemic killed between 40 to 50 million people worldwide (Zimmer and Burke (2009). Feldman ...

Chronic Kidney Disease & HP 2010

this condition is unknown (CKD, 2005). The challenge facing this focus area of HP 2010 is to establish effective programs that wil...

SUD as Chronic Disease plus Overweight Kids

This essay proposes to categorize substance abuse as a chronic disease. The National Institute on Drug Abuse affirms this opinion ...

Chronic Disease Causes Fat versus Calories

In an argumentative research paper that consists of five pages chronic disease and its relationship between total fat calories is ...

An Overview of Emphysema

This in-depth paper examines the pulmonary disease emphysema, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and chronic obstructiv...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Chronic Illness and Public Health

This research paper pertains to the shift of focus that has taken place in regards to public health policy and practice, has it ha...

The Blood Supply and Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is a significant health threat for the blood supply in the country. Methods which help to mitigate the threat are disc...

The Most Common Cause of Liver Diseases

Hepatitis C is a disease that evolves, which means it can build up immunities to treatments. It is the most common cause of chron...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

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

Nutritional Diseases Across the Globe

the most basic level. In the developing world, inadequate access to nutrition remains a significant problem. Anemia, for example...

Medical Evaluation Steps Regarding Coexisting Conditions and Chest Pain

professional must carefully evaluate this patient using all that is known about each of these conditions. Pain such as that being...

Patient Compliance & CHF Nursing Care

While CHF has a mortality rate that ten times that of AIDS and is also responsible for far more hospitalizations than cancer, even...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

STDs and Pregnancy

It wreaks its toll on 100,000 pregnancies per year (CDC, 2009). Gonorrhea and Hepatitis B are less common culprits among pregnant...

Sample of a Community Health Assessment

As well, a full seventy-five percent of low-income citizens lack even the most basic of medical screenings, having typically gone ...

Important Discoveries in Microbiology

Pneumococcal disease has proven a very serious foe for human populations. This disease has...

Public Health Organizations

Both Winslow and Acheson make the link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many...

How Could Global Warming Affect Our Health?

no longer escape from our atmosphere as effectively as it once did. This couples with clear cutting that removes trees that actua...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

Understanding Health - Two Approaches

Medicine has shifted from the Cartesian way of viewing illness, injury and disease as components of a machine-like body to one whi...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

African American Teenagers and Incidence of HIV

affects specific individuals, but the future of society as a whole. As HIV infection has affected African American youth in greate...

Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Chronic Disease in China/Article Critique

appropriate to the issues under investigation. The methodology utilized a cross-sectional survey of randomly selected telephone nu...

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

COPD every four minutes (Walsh, 2007). The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute estimates that there are currently 12 million p...

Obesity/Chronic Disease

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

Pennsylvania Public Health Law

This research paper provides an overview of two provisions of Pennsylvania's Disease Prevention and Control Law of 1955 and descr...