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E-Health and Women's Hypertension

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

Public Health/Then & Now

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

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...

Universal Prescription Drug Coverage

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

Mental Health Treatment and Group Work Importance

2. The Problem In this section we will first consider the scope of the problem, its impact and the reason that this subject merit...

Healthcare Needs Assessment Assessed

approach, more specific health issue of the monitories may be ignored. The development of the report requires the of a range of ...

Ethnic Minority Children's Health Care and the Leeds' Report

repeated, each time taking into account social, economic and other changes which may be relevant. Both assessment and practice are...

Health Care Governance - Three Studies

All of these studies reflect empirical studies of hospital populations in an effort to determine how changes in the healthcare env...

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...

Hospital Database Use

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

Public Health Advertising v. Direct to Consumer Advertising

2004). As this indicates, disease education in the EU is allowed, but American-style DTC advertising is prohibited. Consequently...

Reflective Learning Document on Safety and Health Policy Formation Information

party where contact may result in exposure of a risk. For a small company with no employees the lessons of the health...

Questioning Health Policy

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

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...

Affordability of Health Insurance Letter to U.S. Senator Bill Frist

approach to health care for themselves and all Americans. Demographics of The Most Needy...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

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

Saudi Arabia and Health Care

to improving standards of public health, noting that the infant mortality rate was reduced significantly between 1980 and 1993, an...

Sam Case Study

From this perspective, we can see...

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 Clients and Increasing Independence

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

Medicaid Laws of New York State

In nine pages the Family Health Plus and Health Care Reform Act of 2000 are among the topics discussed in a consideration of New Y...

The Problems Inherent in the Canadian Health Care System and Attempts at Reform

10 pages and 7 sources. This paper provides an overview of the existing problems that appear to be inherent in the Canadian healt...

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...

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,...

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...

Health Club and Gym Membership Reasons and Benefits

In five pages the reasons behind and benefits of belonging to a gym or health club are examined in terms of physical appearance, h...

OSHA Regulations and Nursing Workplace Violence

any given time, but the Bureau of Labor Statistics has deemed that health care and social service employees are subject to a highe...