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Massage as a Complimentary Medicine

an overview of the issues that surround massage and the literature that support the fact that it is an effective approach in the t...

Mental Health Issues and Prison System Problems

1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...

The Economic Impact on Home Health Issues

markets that can be quite lucrative. The industry can expect greater numbers of patients in the future, resulting both from demog...

Health and Alcohol as Perceived by a GP Nurse

those under stress or who are unhappy with their lives. For this reason there has been a higher use in poorer social classes where...

Overview of Health Promotion and Health

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

Education and Health Promotion

fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...

Care Barriers

in a Scottish farmhouse that is more than 10 miles from the nearest village and more than 50 miles from the nearest hospital. Jame...

Metabolic Syndrome Explored

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

Diversity in Occupations in Health Care

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

Medicine from Ancient China

(Traditional Chinese medicine, 2000). But it declined from the end of the Ming Dynasty until 1949, when the Chinese government "b...

Ethics and Personalized Medicine Science

Two obvious questions linked with personalized medicine are: * Who can receive such personalized treatment? * Who pays for that pe...

Modern Medicine and Religious Traditions of the East

were any medical practitioners (Dworkin 3). The major obstacle in incorporating Eastern traditions into modern medicine has been ...

Exercise in Making an Ethical Decision

the cracks of indigent health care. The hospital quite naturally is concerned about the cost of continuing to provide care for Mr...

Conway Medical Center's Economic Forecast

Also on hospital property is an 88-bed nursing center that the hospital also owns and operates. Conway Medical Center provides ge...

Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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

A Public Health Inspection of Apartment Housing and Public Swimming Pools

manufactured before 1978 are particularly likely to contain lead-based paints because it wasnt until that year that lead-based pai...

Characteristics of Health Education

2006 edition of the Journal of Physical Education, Recreation & Dance, the editors asked their readers their opinions on issues re...

Cigarette Smoking and The Health Care System

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

The NHS as a Model of Healthcare

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

The Importance of a Public Option in Health Care Reform? ?

overall. We should insure that everyone in our society not only has access to but the ability to pay for adequate healthcare. U...

Establish Ethical Culture in Public Health

2007). It is much better and will have more impact if this training and communication happens in a face-to-face situation and not...

Macroeconomic Effects of the "Public Option"

goal of totally reforming all of US healthcare has been shelved, with the focus now being exclusively on health insurance. The na...

Chiropractic and CAM

through the efforts of their own belief systems. However, some argue that without the additional use of conventional physical the...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

AN EXPLANATION OF CAUSALITY CONTINUUM

example of this was introduced by Coreil et al in 2001 when discussing breast cancer - they point out that incidence rates for bre...

Death and Brain Death Criteria

In five pages this paper examines death and what constitutes brain death as considered by John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock in Ethic...

Medical Profession and Handling Errors

In five pages John Arras and Bonnie Steinbock's Ethical Issues in Modern Medicine is used in a consideration of how a medical prof...

The Effects of Long-Term Unemployment

persons health" (Tickner). The implication of this survey is of political interest; says Tickner: "Disparaging attacks on long ter...

The ‘Biology’ of Cloning: Its Importance and Potential Impacts

Today, plant research scientists accomplish cloning through the manipulation of a limited number of vectors. The Ti plasmid (a pl...