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1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...
in 2005, according to the American Library Association (ALA) (Manzo 26). The ALA defines a "challenge" as "any formal, written com...
2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...
in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...
and only 1.5 percent have a college degree by the age of 30, while close to 80 percent of all unmarried teen mothers end up on wel...
starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...
There are a number of different types of ticks, some of which do not cause any prolonged illness but there is one that can cause a...
The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...
pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...
outcast or recently being fired from a job can trigger an individuals compulsion to enact revenge against those who may or may not...
insurance as a working benefit, but that is not always a workable solution when employees cannot afford to miss a day a work in or...
stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...
in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...
in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...
to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...
known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...
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the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...
to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...
rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been n...
county-wide efforts to identify, seek out and serve the needs of the countys older population. Of course many locales have center...
issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...
for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...
by Actor Network Theory (ANT), therefore, it becomes not only the technical issue of using and discarding information as well as i...
his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...
Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...
from the plethora of emotionally-charged meanings that unnecessarily increase the suffering of those stricken with this disease. E...
to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...
self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...
As they take on more and more prescription drugs, driving becomes problematic. With a myriad of symptoms, diagnoses, and reduced m...