Essays 331 - 360
reported that periodontal disease is a cause of low birth weight. Delta Dental stated their research suggests that oral infections...
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...
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...
of linking to other programs that also serve very young children and their families, and tertiary (indicated) prevention, or clini...
quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...
knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...
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...
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...
to focus on the therapeutic relationship. Counselor C, who is a biblical counselor, rejects all secular approaches and turns to Sc...
Orem defines a "self-care deficit" as when a clients condition or injury prohibits that individuals ability to meet the requiremen...
To consider public health issues we heed to start by looking at models of health. Health is seen and defined as the way the physic...
because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...
eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...
In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...
fundamental differences between the two concepts. Whitehead (2004), for sake of clarity, delineates the foundation of health-rela...
This research team selected homeless adolescents as the focus for their study. While, in general, the concept that informed parent...
(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...
well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...
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...
those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...
important to understanding the impact of interventions. One of the major problems noted by a number of theorists is that the exte...
These authors conducted a large study of 3,830 individuals consisting of 17.8 percent nurses, 21.8 percent physicians, 29.6 percen...
1997, p.42). Mental health is not only something that is peculiar to an individual, but it is something that affects the entire c...
cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...