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The Effects of Hurricane Katrina

there had been speculation as to the reason for the devastation, it does not appear to have been from global warming. Katrina was ...

Eight Questions on Health Status

disease, parents first must have access to health care services and then utilize such services. Marshall (2003) points to the im...

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

Study on Health Status and Participation Critiqued

evaluating information (including assumptions and evidence) related to the issue, considering alternatives ... and drawing conclus...

Questions on Health Care Delivery System in the U.S.

therefore, highly desirable to have a variety of types of LTC settings. Furthermore, alternatives to institutionalized care can o...

Africa, Health, Poverty, and AIDS

viewpoint on the topic is important for research, if effective means of reducing and eradicating the disease are to be found. ...

Steroid Use Among Adolescents

does not take into account the role that genetics plays in body-building: even though steroids can augment potential which already...

Advanced Practice Nursing, Focus on Florida

This research paper offers an overview of issues pertaining to advanced nursing practice and the impact of advance practice nurses...

Controlling Healthcare Costs

This research paper discusses the urgent need to control health care expenditure in the US and the strategies that are currently b...

Overview of Roy Adaptation Model

Model (RAM) is one of the most highly utilized theoretical frameworks in contemporary nursing (Bakan and Akyol, 2008). The RAM pro...

Health Issues in Indonesia

Southeast Asia that consists of an archipelago, which is made up of roughly 17,500 islands. The health care system of is strugglin...

Indonesian Sanitation

This research paper discusses the work of Almud Weitz (2009) and how it pertains to the problem of personal sanitation behaviors i...

Health Status Report, Indonesia

This research paper discusses factors that are relevant to Indonesians' health status. Topics covered include life expectancy, imp...

Adolescents/Mental Health Interventions

This research paper consists of 2 parts. The first part is an annotated bibliography of studies that focus on interventions design...

Senior Citizens and Health Care Needs

struggled with the shift to maintain services and provide support for this population. There is little dispute that the aggrega...

Overview of Environmental Health Care

chemicals throughout our lives and some ill effects do not happen until years later (NIEHS, 2003). Most physicians have limited ...

Health Factors Influencing Quality of Life

especially in at-risk populations, can reduce the level of disability and "compress" it into a shorter period close to the end of ...

Developments In Forensic Nursing

scientific investigation and treatment of trauma and/or death of victims of abuse, violence, criminal activity, and traumatic acci...

Dangers of the West Nile Virus to Humans and Animals

horses - just as susceptible as their human counterparts. Symptoms in people include flu-like discomfort, which may turn into ase...

U.S. Refugee Population, Health Policy Treatment, Prevention, and Care Services

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

Heathcare Present and Future Concerns

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

Prescription Drugs Copay

$10 for all others. That was not too long ago. I a writing because I believe that you should lower the co-payment on prescription ...

Child Poverty Health Perspectives

Assembly Special Session on Children, held in May of 2002, adopted a draft resolution designed to protect the worlds children from...

Nursing Scholars, Feminism, and Postmodernism

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

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...

The Relationship Between Culture, Health And Illness In Singapore

level of education, the impact of traditional culture is also highly influential. The concepts of health are based on the cultural...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

How To Improve U.S. Poverty Level In 2008

There have been various modifications and accommodations for students with special learning needs. Included in these are special ...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Strategy Assignments

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...