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Epidemiology and Treatment of Sickle Cell Anemia

This research paper describes how sickle cell anemia results from factors pertaining to hemoglobin. The writer describes crises th...

Cancer, Heart Disease, and Factors That Influence Rates of Mortality

In thirty pages the mortality rates of these two diseases and what can be done to reduce them are discussed. There are thirty bib...

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...

National Health System Disease Management Proposal

In twelve pages a proposed study concentrating on programs for disease management is presented along with National Health System s...

Human Health Threats of Infectious Diseases and the Return of Tuberculosis in America, Cholera in Zaire and Rwanda, and the Plague in India

In seven pages this paper discusses the human health dangers posed by the return of these infectious diseases. Two sources are in...

2 Case Studies on Prevention Through Genetic Screening

In seventy pages this paper discusses World Health Organization and other genetic screening programs with a case study focus upon ...

Law and Genetic Testing

her family through the National Association for the Self-Employed (Schulman 16). As coordinator of the Fragile-X Center f...

Sexual Health Maintenance

In 8 pages this paper discusses how to maintain sexual health in contemporary society in a consideration of cancer, sexually trans...

Nursing Homes and Safety Programs

In twenty eight pages this paper discusses nursing homes and the importance of safety programs with OSHA's role, health considerat...

Miracle Drugs and Placebo Effect Applications

In five pages the placebo effect and miracle drug concepts are considered in this examination of health inequities, infectious dis...

Wellness, Disease, Health, and Changing Attitudes

In six pages this report considers how wellness, disease, and health attitude perceptions have changed and evolved. Six sources a...

A Management and Evaluation Aggregate Program Proposal

percent of Erie Countys population. Overall, 90.9 percent of the total population is white. The most commonly reported nat...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Law, Genetics, and Insurance Testing

have a disease, rather then the disease itself. ` These two cases are not rare. They represent a prevailing concern of legislatur...

Disease and Health

of where health concerns and support lie as they look to different perspectives and input factors. The World Health Organisation ...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Plague and Hantavirus Animal Diseases

one highly vulnerable to contamination by virtue of dust-carrying particles and surface contamination (Colorado Department of Publ...

Coronary Artery Disease Prevention and Exercise

risk factor, but is of less consequence among those diabetics who pay close attention to their blood sugar levels, test often and ...

Infant Development and Breast Feeding

They are believed to work by enhancing the function of infant T and B cells (Field, 2005). "Neutrophils" are another important pl...

Has Health Care Been Improved by Managed Care?

receiving additional income for having patients who use less services. As Stone (1997) indicates, she received a healthy bonus che...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Nuclear Medicine

which in and of itself was not unusual but it was the fact that this tube was enveloped in thick, black cardboard that caused Roen...

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina

warns that anyone with an open wound or any cut, even the slightest should avoid brackish water and even seawater because this a c...

Syphilis and Public Health

This research paper describes Treponema pallidum, a spirochete bacterium that is known to be the causative agent for syphilis. The...

The Genetic and Environmental Components of Asthma

This paper reviews this disease from both the perspective of individual genetic makeup and environmental exposure in order to disc...

Global Challenges in Public Health

This research paper addresses two problems in public health, which are anti-microbial resistance and infectious disease. Three pag...

Alcohol in Society

consumption is risky as well (Kuhn, Swartzwelder & Wilson, 2003). Food does absorb some of the alcohol. Also, in addition to alcoh...

The Effects of Immobility, Injury, and Aging of Joints

impact on joint function. Typically, fractures are pulled back in place and the injury is immobilized using a plaster cast or som...

Various Determinants of Health

This 2 page paper gives an overview of how a person's genetic makeup and the environment they live in can effect their health. Thi...

Lymphatic Filariasis

This paper considers the tropical disease elephantiasis, how it is transmitted, how it affects its victims, and the proposed World...