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San Diego Hospitals and the Impact of Uninsured Individuals

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...

Health, Environment, and Law

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

2 Nursing Paradigm Models

the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002). The principal focus of the simultaneity paradigm is on the clients perspectives of t...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

THE U.S. AND CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

came to the conclusion (interestingly enough) that healthcare outcomes didnt differ based on the public vs. private option. The re...

Health Care Three Ways

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

Billing, Coding and Reimbursement in the Health Care Field

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

CHALLENGES OF HEALTH CARE IN KENYA

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

Call Tracking and Shand's Health Care

referrals, and so on. Messages are recorded by human workers, on message pads, then the message is placed in the appropriate locat...

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

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...

Alberta, Canada, and Health Care Privatization Issues

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

Veterans' Health Care

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

Andrew Weil and Ralph Snyderman on U.S. Health Care System Restructuring

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

at least not accessing the system as much as they could. For example, it was reported in BMJ that a telephone healthcare service o...

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

Uninsured and Impoverished Health Issues

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

Health Care and Interdisciplinary Teams

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

Function and Role of Nurse Practitioners

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

Health Care System of Canada

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

Health Care and Equal Access

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

Three Nursing Tasks

This research paper is made-up of three sections, which each pertain to three different aspects of nursing. The first section occu...