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Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Death and Dying Interview

In five pages a nursing services' director for a long term health care facility for senior citizens is interviewed regarding the p...

An Overview of Clinical Pathways

Clinical Pathways can be important to saving the health care system of this country, according to this paper. It gives an overview...

1995 Plan for Health Care Savings

In eleven pages this paper considers 1995's H.R. 323 with the emphasis upon health care savings and applications to later tax defe...

Health Care and Poverty in Urban America

This formula, at 1994s standards, placed the poverty line at $14,800 for a family of four, no matter if they were in the urban Nor...

Comparison of the Health Care Systems in Canada and America

In twelve pages this research paper contrasts and compares the advantages of Canada's public approach to health care as opposed to...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

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

Defeat of the The Boren Medical Reform Bill

In four pages a health care provider reviews the Boren Amendment and opines that its demise is in the best interest of health care...

The National Health Care System in Canada

Fifteen pages and 14 sources. This paper relates the fact of the increasing discontentment with the universal health care system ...

Managed Health Care and HMOs

In ten pages this paper discusses the evolution of the health care industry in an overview of cost containment and HMO and managed...

American System of Health Care

In seven pages an examination of the U.S. health care system includes discussion of general health care issues of coverage, physic...

Health Care Systems Reengineering

In nineteen pages this paper discusses health care services' infrastructure and considers reengineering and quality improvements t...

Health Care Policy and Influential Factors

Paul Starrs (1983) book, The Social Transformation of American Medicine, provides insightful vision into the changes that had occu...

Leadership in Health Care

In nine pages this paper examines health care leadership in a consideration of such topics as policy, whether or not health care s...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

Medicare, Health Care Issues, and the Presidential Election of 2004

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

Study Objectives and Health Care Assessments

important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...

The Failure of Health Issues of the Homeless to Be Addressed by NHS Policies

The homeless population in the UK suffer a high level of inequality in terms of quality and access to healthcare services. The pap...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

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

Ethics Of Managed Care

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

Universal Health Care

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

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

The Health Insurance Crisis

(Jennings, 2005). The reason for the huge increases in health care costs is not the insurance companies, Jennings found, but the f...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Health Care - United States vs Canada

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

Health Care and Material Management

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...