SEARCH RESULTS

anticipated to help improve the system over the long term, short-term there will have to be adaptations by organizations as they d...

asthma, cancer, diabetes, and childhood obesity" (Hurst, 2007, p. 207). Improved eyesight and children having higher intelligence ...

health outcomes are generally found in proportion to the number of cigarettes that a smoker uses each day (Goodwin, Keyes and Hasi...

by many the local and national government ought to have a more important role in the healthcare of the nations. As early as 1900 t...

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

result in spousal violence (2). Though children under the age of 18 account for approximately 21 percent of the population, they ...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

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

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...

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

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

n.d.). The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) explains that "Ultimately, health promotion activit...

families often have little access to health care services (Bauman, Silver and Stein, 2006). In many cases, access is provided thro...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

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

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

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

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

gum disease in one form or another (Cardiovascular Week, 2005). Gingivitis is the first step of periodontal disease. The...

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

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

has proven effective for eradicating its presence. In order for Calcasieu Parish to address the overwhelming air and water pollut...

to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...

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

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

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

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

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...