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Health Care and Aging

are, of course, special considerations which go into treating the elderly. We know, for example, that the elderly often experienc...

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...

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)...

Emotions and Health

in a joint effort by the American Psychological Association and the Mayo Clinic demonstrated that there are significant advantages...

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 ...

Slashing Home Health Care and Ethics

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

Mental Health Agency Organizational Change

money for upgrades and improvements. The payroll is just barely meeting the salaries of the workers, and as a result many short cu...

Nursing Research Article 'Predicting Family Health in Families of Young Adults with Severe Mental Illness' Reviewed

new research is needed in the area. The style of the literature review is appropriate in that the author divides it into we...

National Health Service and Community Care Act of 1990 and Depression Treatment

diagnosing it. It is not as if depression is difficult to diagnose. What is difficult is getting clients into facilities and to ad...

Report Critique of 'Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrow's Prospects'

policies so that employees costs will not be so oppressive. In "Retiree Health Insurance: Recent Trends and Tomorrows Prosp...

Health Care Providers, the Patient, and the Patient Self Determination Act

policies in regard to the PSDA. I have been fortunate in that I was chosen to be a member of that team. Consequently, I have at ...

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...

Health Care Workders and Accountability Arenas

paralleled by the employers duty towards the worker. Legal accountability is that which is delineated by the civil and criminal la...

Health Care Workers and Treating Patients Who Inflict Self Injury

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

Overview of Healthcare and Cultural Attitudes

put in their mouths. The concern was so great, that during the middle of the 20th century, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ...

Hispanic Community, Health Care, and Government

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 ...

Questions on Health Care Infrastructure

can be blamed on the political process in which any workable attempts to control costs were met with accusations of rationing heal...

How to Serve a Client with Multiple Physical and Mental Health Issues

combination of these factors can lead to an increase rate of CNS deterioration which in turn can lead to increased neurological si...

Health Care and Elasticity of Demand

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

Community Health Care Nursing and Child Abuse Interventions

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

Medicare and Altering its Health Care Effects

influences the degree to which health care costs rise in that it establishes what it will and will not pay for goods and services....

Community Health Nursing Considerations

making a critical separation between their medical and social responsibilities within the short time allowed in an office visit. ...

Women and Obesity

to join a health club or try to fit some other structured activity into her already-full schedule, at least not on a long-term bas...

Nursing Liability and Access to Health Care by the Poor in Texas

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

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Presentation on Canada's Hamilton Health Services

allows justification for greater technological expenditures as well, because the patient base is not limited only to the immediate...

NYC Health Club Proposal, The Six Moons Gym

the body to do it in style. Indeed, people of all ages, socioeconomic levels, and of both genders are flocking to health clubs to ...

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

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

Mental Health Hospitalization and Inpatient Services

Private organizations designed primarily for drug and alcohol treatment rarely if ever will accept any patient who does not have i...

Health and the Effects of Gender Roles

the need to purge what one had just consumed in order to "return for additional eating, drinking and merriment" (Kuehnel, 2002)....