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complimentary goods. Jobs may be created as well as eliminated and others may be radically altered. These may lead to increased s...

Because the medium is free and uncontrolled, anyone can say anything. This is both its blessing and its curse: often factual infor...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

fuel surcharges and look for ways increasing income, such as charging for checked luggage. Southwest are managing this financial r...

heavy rain (UNFCCC 2007). When sea water gets warmer, the oceans can expand and affect coastal areas (UNFCCC 2007). This report id...

quite enviable among university-attached medical centers. ROA declined in 2002, but it is still quite positive in this environmen...

respected academically and is in the business of training future health care providers as it serves the local community. All "att...

continues to battle against the ongoing nursing shortage. Today, the problem of the nursing shortage has grown to the point that ...

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

to bring a new drug to market, and the developer has patent protection only for relatively few years. To recoup its investment in...

citizen of the country (Grumbach and Bodenheimer, 1994). Plagued by overspending for years, the general system also has been char...

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...

it affect a massive percentage of the American population and is, quite literally, often a matter of life and death. The latest st...

believed were Communist inspired (Quadagno, 2005). The Communists established the Comintern, an organization dedicated to worldwid...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

agony? Medicine was not always the assembly line it is today. According to Pescosolido and Boyer, there were three events that ch...

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

does. Literature Search By November 2008, there were more than 10.3 million people unemployed in the United States (Families USA...

these surgeries can proceed more efficiently and effectively, and that case management results in cost savings, as well as improve...

County Health Department, 2009). It appears from this brief examination that the City of Portland depends on the County for its pu...

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

this number, a surprising 51.3 percent were employed people under the age of 65 (Birenbaum, 1993). Almost 28 percent of the unins...

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

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

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

In seventeen pages this research paper considers the continuing problem in the United States of uninsured drivers and considers ho...

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

"organization does not need transforming" (Transformational leadership, 2007). Transactional leadership is much in keeping with ...

associations, testing hypotheses, and identifying the causes of health-related states or events" (Merrill and Timmreck, 2006, p. 2...