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issues along a continuum of health and good health is defined as a "state of complete physical, mental and social well-being" (Ada...

its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

How governments accomplish this purpose, of course, varies considerably. In Great Britain, the government via the National Health...

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

back for treatment and who would be left behind and not treated. In the 1800s, unless a patient was dying those in the emergency r...

goes way beyond the paradigm of nursing as simply a "handmaiden" to physicians. The nursing professional is required to know virtu...

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

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

for further self-harm to occur. Pembrooke and Smith recommend, for example, that triage staff assume that even minor injuries repr...

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

state of the art technology. Their lives will be saved above the others. It is somewhat like the scenario when the Titanic went do...

Hence, one sees in this example that patients and physicians demand the newest and latest technologies but many insurance companie...

government and distort the issues by using unethical practices. Their dealings with government officials are sometimes damaging t...

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

Security system and others had begun to focus on the idea of a program aimed at insuring Social Security beneficiaries" (Anonymous...

characteristics of the group, interpersonal relationships within the group and the characteristics of the culture. The leader must...

into a receiving country, this population has the same entitlement to social benefits - such as health care - as the native popula...

(HMOs), the explosive growth of Medicare and Medicare abuses and the resulting "crackdown" on Medicare policies and procedures. T...

at where it was spent in 1997 20.7% was spent on inpatient care, 25.6 on out-patient care and 14% on pharmaceuticals (Anonymous, 2...

not want his father informed), presenting a rationale for signing a health care proxy becomes extremely problematic. Guidelines us...

of the true nature of their illnesses. While keeping such facts from the patients may be considered merciful it does, at times, en...

of all of these organizations is to help provide quality behavioral health care while containing costs for its members. APS...

to body changes due to issues of self-image and acceptance speaks to a very vulnerable group of individuals whose focus is more up...

dilemma of a single woman who is part of what the politicians and social scientists refer to as a member of the "working poor" soc...

Most of those insured by third-party payers have had all or part of their healthcare premiums paid by employers. Competitive pres...

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

health of the individual and to their success in recuperation. The Association for Spirit at Work is comprised of medical profess...

who were in need of an epidural block in order to anesthetize the severe birth-related pain. Unable to hand over the several hund...