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The Major Problems Facing the U.S. Health Care System

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

Comparison of Various Types of Healthcare Organizations

and will be made up of a number of different departments divided by areas of specialty, such as accident and emergency, maternity,...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Homeless & Mental Illness/A Vulnerable Population

necessary health-related behaviors" required for meeting "ones therapeutic self-care demand (needs)" (Hurst, et al 2005, p. 11). U...

A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Public Health Issues

It is clear to most people that the amount of money the federal government spends on health care must be reduced. At the current r...

Philadelphia (1994) from a Sociological Viewpoint

This paper begins by presenting a brief summary of the plot to "Philadelphia," a 1994 film. The writer, then, present a sociologic...

Case Study on Prison Reform

care is a basic survival need. Without adequate health care, they could and sometimes do die. There is empirical evidence that the...

Overview of Needlestick Injuries Among Health Care Workers

infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) as well as the hepatitis B virus. Of health care workers infected with HCV, "85% become ch...

Changing Role of American Foreign Aid

In nineteen pages this paper discusses how US foreign aid's role is ever changing. Ten sources are cited in the bibliography...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

US Health Care and Immigrants

up undocumented immigrants who cross the border. Another twenty-seven million dollars is spent on administering emergency medical...

Prevention of HIV and AIDS and the Importance of Health Education for the Public

In five pages this report examines the importance of education regarding prevention of HIV and AIDS viruses and in the promotion o...

Specific Health Care Problems of the Homeless

This paper discusses how the community can address homeless problems regarding health care access in 5 pages. Seven sources are c...

Health Care Management and Future Changes

In seven pages the health care management of the future is examined with trends, access, and costs among the topics discussed. Si...

Homeless Patients and a Nurse's Role

In five pages this paper discusses the plight of the homeless and health care access in a consideration of a nurse's role. Six so...

AIDS and its Social Stigma

In nine pages this paper examines AIDS in an overview of social stigma, reactions of group subcultures, and how homosexuality is r...

Families, Stigma, and Socialization

In eight pages this paper examines socialization and the stigma associated with suicide, adoption, interracial marriage, homosexua...

Uninsured and Impoverished Health Issues

the poverty line. These researchers point out that the poor are less likely to have health insurance, less likely to seek health s...

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...

Minorities and Health Care Disparities

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

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 ...

Issues with RHIOs

A RHIO is a type of health information exchange organization where certain professionals upload health/medical data and other prof...

The Failure of Health Issues of the Homeless to Be Addressed by NHS Policies

The homeless population in the UK suffer a high level of inequality in terms of quality and access to healthcare services. The pap...

The Ethics of Pricing and Access to Health Care: A Social Justice Issue

problem of expansive pharmaceutical pricing and the social impacts for the nations poor. The Scope of the Problem One of the m...

Access To Health Care

strange since the data reported for 1998 was 83 percent of pregnant women who had received care in their first trimester. That fig...

How And Why Pricing Affects Access

conditions may worsen and require treatment which will be more costly for the state or healthcare provider. This is unlikely to ha...

Americans Should be Thankful for What They Have

have to lose their home over medical bills. Of course, a representative from the insurance industry was there and did explain that...

An Overview of Medicaid Eligibility

state to state and from group to group. There are special rules for those who live in nursing homes and for disabled children livi...

Floor Planning for Health Care Facilities

station is situated just before the facility branches into two main hallways, along either side of which are situated the twelve e...