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Overview of Family Health Nursing

says that families have been sorely neglected as a great deal of nursing practice continues to focus on individuals (Denham, 2003)...

HHH, Change Management, and Systems Thinking

Connected to the larger system, the hand is an integral part; separated from the system it quite literally is dead and fills none ...

Hand Hygiene Programs and Health Care Organization

structure is never easy, except for at the very formation of that organization. To come into a pre-existing organizational environ...

Community Health and Public Health Issues

of society, ignored. They are often referred to as the underserved population. According to Gallup polls it seems that out...

Health: Fast Food

is well known that the United States is one of the most obese nations in the world. It has become such a problem that it also affe...

Public Health Program

obesity, tobacco use, substance abuse, responsible sexual behavior, mental health, injuries and violence, environmental quality, i...

Addressing Gun Safety

practitioners to alert their clients to this possibility (Christoffel, 2007, p. 626). Impact of the problem on the client An onl...

The Health Care Systems in Israel and Venezuela

There are similarities in health care delivery in Israel and Venezuela. however, there are significant differences. This ten page ...

Diddle and Denham (2010)/An Article Summary

on Calvinism. The discussion describes and links the values of the people to their spiritual beliefs, which includes fatalism, tha...

Healthcare Initiatives at the Federal Level

outcome if the Affordable Care Act were implemented in 2011, in regards to the number of insured; without a doubt, coverage would ...

What Are The Differences Between Leaders and Managers

(1989), a management guru suggested that a succinct explanation is that managers are people who do things right and leaders are pe...

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...

Importance of Lifestyle Choices

diabetic among individuals who have either an impaired fasting glucose level or impaired glucose tolerance (Fowler, 2010). Impai...

Public Health Organizations

Both Winslow and Acheson make the link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many...

Best Practices and Satisfaction in Health Care

many professionals feel is attached to a strong desire to do the right thing. When organizations are engaging in unethical practic...

Development and Human Rights as Addressed by Bolivian President Evo Morales

as a deep concern for human rights and a commitment to his countrys economic development (Trujillo, 2007). Having confronted adve...

How We Handle Stress Affects Our Health

substances to the various components of our body. These, in turn, control such aspects of our lives as our emotions. Research ha...

Neuman Systems Theory of Nursing

is three times the average for all other age groups (AOA, 2010). Average doctor visits in a year were 6.5 for ages 65 to 74 and 7....

Addressing the Problem of Native American Suicide

water for a significant percentage of these people. The dissolution of the nuclear family is another problem that should be mor...

Tougher Laws Needed To Address Domestic Abuse

justice to the battered victim, it is also to educate the health care industry about how to identify abuse and the steps necessary...

America's Best Drug Policy Option

of the crime problem, they carried with them the frustration of knowing that despite all good intentions, alcohol (like drugs) wil...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Hospital Downsizing/Change Initiatives

and simply "more territory to cover overall" (McConnell, 2005, p. 177). In response to this downsizing trend, the best defense tha...

Strategy Assignments

by 2010 (About Healthy People, n.d.). It has survived four presidents and several changes in congressional leadership based on pa...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

The Relationship Between Culture, Health And Illness In Singapore

level of education, the impact of traditional culture is also highly influential. The concepts of health are based on the cultural...

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...

Hillary Clinton’s Health Care Proposal

reform is the American Health Choices Plan. In it she addresses costs and quality and hits on topics such as long term care, canc...

Hurricane Katrina Evacuees and Community Health

Demographically, the people who were evacuated to Houstons Astrodome are primarily the people who took refuge in New Orleans Super...

Public School Safety, Health, and Nutrition

a sense that the children are cognizant of weight issues. The Principal, Dr. Meyer claims that the parents at this school have b...