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Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

Uninsured Assistance

are intended to be marketing efforts for a variety of health services providers in the area. For a nominal fee, visitors can have...

Patient Education That Are Both Successful and Unsuccessful

of her post-polio syndrome left her unable to completely void her urine, which in turn led to the development of further UTIs. Da...

Older Adults and Diabetes

is by far the most common form of the disease. In addition, it is common for those adults who develop the disease later in life t...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

Program Proposal for Diabetes Education

proposed method of resolution is to design, develop and evaluate a clinical, evidence-based "diabetic education program to increas...

Reviews of 8 Diabetes Education Articles

only one group, no control group. Group exposed to treatment and then measure (Creswell, 2003). Measured participants blood gluco...

Nursing Diabetes Patient Education Internet Websites

on diabetes into categories and addresses these topics on separate web pages, as does the first site. The homepage explains that t...

Diabetes and Families

CFAM. Structural Assessment Internal Structure The family as it exists today came into being in May 2004 when Joe and Jeann...

Life Effects of Insulin

would die, and that is frightening. Yet, I think of the many diseases and medical interventions available in a general sense. I re...

Facts About Nutrition and Diabetes

detail. It states that "sucrose and sucrose-containing foods" must be substituted on a gram-for-gram basis with other carbohydrate...

Patients and Diabetes

of condition in terms of importance due the impact on lifestyle and ability to result in death is not treated correctly (King et a...

Hispanics and Diabetes Management

Have you had any experience in helping a friend or family member manage diabetes? The patient replied that she was not aware of...

Population Impact of Diabetes

2001). Type 1 DM is often referred to as childhood diabetes, because the onset occurs in people under the age of 30 years of age ...

Diabetes Education Lesson Plan

reason, who are newly diagnosed with Type II diabetes. The primary purpose will be to impress upon these patients the critical ne...

Polk County, Florida Diabetes Prevention Program Proposal

50.9% of the population ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). The population is 79.6 white ("Polk County Quick Facts," 2005). It seem...

Gibbs' Reflective Model and a Reflective Learning Document

undue fear created but there is also an appreciation of the true nature of the condition and the care the patient needs to take of...

Black Community and the Epidemic Proportions of Diabetes

cells that are responsible for producing insulin. Although it can develop at any age, it is described as juvenile onset because m...

Orem's Self Care Theory Application

overall, there is nonetheless a reduced life expectancy by as much as one-third, with increased chances of blindness, kidney disea...

Canada and the Social Problem of Childhood Obesity

greater importance are the collective changes in social structures and expectations that lead to increasingly sedentary lifestyles...

Diabetes, Life Expectations, and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

regimes and goals are instituted to bring about change that is viewed to be best for the people involved (Oberle and Allen, 2002)....

Life Expectation Changes and the Theories of Betty Neuman and Calista Roy

are intrinsically connected to behaviors that cope with stress factors in the environment (Roy, 1999). The goal within this nursi...

Impact of Stress on Diabetes

and Baron Josef von Mering removed the pancreas of a dog in 1889 to see if it were an essential organ. Their early attempts to fe...

Importance of Cardiac Action Potential

procedure not simply passive diffusion. Typically the cell membranes in a living organism are selectively permeable. That is the...

Classifications and Treatment of Diabetes

(Wilson, Krakoff, and Gohdes, 1997). Its complications include urinary hypovolemia, electrolyte imbalance and extraordinarily hig...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Evaluating the Impacts of a Vegetarian Diet Proposal

health and that any perceived quality of life benefits are more related to ideology than scientifically demonstrable benefits deri...

Sponsorship of the Olympics and Social Issues

main advantage to sponsoring sports events is that the sponsorship can and should be used as a "catalyst for building corporate im...

Type I Diabetes and Stress Effects

appropriate and necessary. Statement of Purpose This proposed study would investigate the effects of psychological stress on gl...

Environmental Analysis of HHH Home Health Care Company's Strategic Plan

care. Internal Environment Rising Costs As other types of health care providers seek to control their own costs, home healt...