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Tables on Acute, Infectious, and Chronic Disease

1). Further, inadequate utilization of screening tests contribute to approximately half of the deaths resulting from cancer of th...

Censorship

in 2005, according to the American Library Association (ALA) (Manzo 26). The ALA defines a "challenge" as "any formal, written com...

Home Care Senior Citizen Patients and Chronic Undertreatment

2. constant monitoring for potential complications 3. the willingness to utilize both pharmacological and nonpharmacologi...

Healthy People 2010/Obesity Objective

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

Teen Pregnancy, Issue Analysis

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...

Troubled Artists: Creativity As A Catharsis

starry starry night! This is how I want to die" (Sexton, 1981). Like Sexton (1981), van Gogh utilized art as a catharsis while e...

What Illness a Tick can Cause

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...

Updated Gannt Chart Stop Smoking

The positive health benefits of quitting begin within minutes of the last smoke. The positive health outcome continue each year, s...

Utilizing Electronic Patient Records Systems

pilot studies 1. Introduction The potential benefits of technology in the health industry are enormous. In the past the use ...

Serial Killers Versus Mass Murderers

outcast or recently being fired from a job can trigger an individuals compulsion to enact revenge against those who may or may not...

Health Care Insurance For The Middle Class Of Illinois: Finding A Solution

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...

Effects of Stress

stress, which causes fluctuating levels of neuro-endocrine responses (Taylor, Repetti and Seeman, 1997). To understand this concep...

Health Outcomes in the Inner Cities

in 2001 (Griggs and Bazie, 2002). The median household income dropped across the board, including all racial-ethnic groups with t...

STDs and Plans of Health Promotion

in the heart and nervous system, or in some cases, death (WHO, 1996). While health promotion relating to STDs may be a global mis...

Mental Health Clients and Increasing Independence

to adulthood or general maturation processes. In an institutionalised environment, this can be a difficult transition, yet in a co...

Disease of Schizophrenia

known to manifest various peculiarities or disorders of thinking and behavior. Correctly speaking, however, these are diseases of ...

Mental Illness from Ancient Times to the Present

the cause (2003). Again, while today it seems that psychology has focused on physical causes, as history progressed from ancient t...

Review of an Article on Nursing Research

to examine whether womens social roles mediate the impact of heart surgery on their psychological well-being" (Plach and Heidrich,...

Legal Excuse of Mental Illness

rationale for this plea and the heart of its meaning. The desirability of even raising these questions seems hardly to have been n...

Assessment Findings with Diagnoses Summarized

county-wide efforts to identify, seek out and serve the needs of the countys older population. Of course many locales have center...

System of Health Care in Turkey

issues difficult to address, in that there is often an interchange of duties as a means by which to compensate for the sometimes-i...

Families and the Effects of Prolonged Illness

for the family. Finances have been destroyed with assets being wiped out, the stress such illness creates in the other family memb...

UK Electronic Health Records' Implementation

by Actor Network Theory (ANT), therefore, it becomes not only the technical issue of using and discarding information as well as i...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

Mental Health Hospitalization and Inpatient Services

Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...

Illness in Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors by Susan Sontag

from the plethora of emotionally-charged meanings that unnecessarily increase the suffering of those stricken with this disease. E...

Impacts of Socioeconomic, Behavioral, and Environmental Factors on New Zealanders' Health

to be significantly more susceptible to the detrimental affects than others. Such locales as New Zealand appear to be on a direct...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

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...

Connection Between Service Utilization, Health Status, and General Community Health

As they take on more and more prescription drugs, driving becomes problematic. With a myriad of symptoms, diagnoses, and reduced m...