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Chronic Illness Management

of a medical crisis is prudent, but being prepared is imperative. For example, some physicians will prescribe certain medication f...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Intimate Relationships and Psychological Abuse

In ten pages this study examines intimate relationships and the incidence of psychological abuse and includes causes, abuser trait...

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN EASTERN AND WESTERN MEDICINE

western medicine treats symptoms and diseases through drugs, radiation or surgery (Western Medicine, 2009). Eastern medic...

Healthcare and the Dangers of Nosocomial Infections

services. However, the greatest cost of all has been to human life, because nosocomial infections have resulted in patient deaths...

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...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Importance of Isolation Precautions

most effective forms of primary prevention for the spread of contagious diseases (Gould, 2009). There are five principles regardin...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...

The Tertiary Level of Prevention

family violence has occurred relate the importance of a community base and social support mechanisms for reducing recidivism by pe...

Visual Images and Communication

forceful idea behind this image is that AIDS should be a collective problem, one that sparks a community-based response. ...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Article Critique of Scott, et al (2006)

and fall-related injuries among the adult clients in home support services. Hypothesis/hypotheses While the hypothesis of the stu...

Liberalized Trade and Economic Growth of Zimbabwe

This 4 page essay studies Zimbabwe and the influence of the WTO and the IMF on AIDS. This paper argues for increased liberalizatio...

Dehydration, Effects and Prevention

has a negative impact on cognitive and physical performance and a loss of 7 percent "can lead to body collapse" (Suhayda and Walto...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Hate Crimes Legislation

history, and how politics and media have affected it can help shed light on this relevant issue. The Hate Crimes Prevention Ac...

Impact Of Suicide On The Survivor

experiences she has had with others as a means by which to demonstrate the individual issues of denial, false hope and the common ...

Fire Prevention and Public Education

by a ratio of 3:1 ("Fires"). With the past five years these statistics as these are easily accessible on the Internet and can be ...

Chemical Dependency Issues

the substance replaces recreational social or occupational activities (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). * The continuing u...

Pressure Ulcers/Changing Care

change and its rationale (which was based on the results of empirical research), implemented the change and then "supported the c...

Proteus Vulgaris

2000, p. 6888). Transmission Proteus is commonly found in such venues as hospitals and long-term care facilities (Gonzalez, 2006)...

Medication Errors & Their Prevention

are able to make error reports without fear of reprisal. Nevertheless, the consequence of possible disciplinary action and repris...

Dropout Prevention for Youth with Disabilities

1998). In order to keep young people in school, they have to be engaged in learning and further, see a reason for continuing. The ...

Proactive Approaches to Street Racing and Underage Drinking

is bothersome to the point of creating fear and ask for their help in reaching a resolution. From this interactive encounter, the...

HIV/AIDS & African American Women

"African American womens rights and underscores their physical, emotional and sociocultural vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (Williams, ...

U.S. Health System

U.S. healthcare system is dangerous and lethal. That is a fact already confirmed by the data cited from Cortese and Smoldt (2005)....