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past century has been the fabled "Unified Field Theory", the theoretical perspective that unifies all scientific disciplines such ...

group 85 years and older is now the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. population (Dramatic changes, 2006). Furthermore, accordin...

the best in terms of healthcare. There are numerous other echelons of society, however, that receive healthcare in somewhat dimin...

medically necessary services provided by hospitals and doctors must be insured;"5 * Universality - ensures uniform terms and condi...

States would need to assure education and training were available for qualified individuals. One thing all states could do that ...

under-five mortality and a decrease in the number of children who are fully vaccinated (Ambrose, 2006). Furthermore, the problem i...

the expansion of the industry was based on a business model-getting people well and making a profit doing it-rather than on doing ...

is relevant here is that the authors note that the goal of a CEO performance appraisal should be to link its results to the execut...

medical education, it changed all aspects of medical care and the relationships that exist between physician and patient (pp. 395)...

in the world where health care is able to benefit from the best and the latest technologies (Improving Quality in a Changing Healt...

providers fees be "normal and customary," and those care providers who have attempted to set lower fees for those without any safe...

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 ...

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

has slowly been creeping into Canadian health care as private expenses such as prescription drugs and homecare continue to cost Ca...

were sometimes locked away in unsanitary conditions or exposed to even harsher treatment. This situation was not to improve subst...

from an advanced practice nurse. Patients value the nurse practitioner (NP) as a trustworthy source of medical information that a...

51% ("Health Insurance," 1997, p.PG) of the 31 million Americans who have no insurance, maintaining that they do not carry it simp...

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

In six pages health care system distribution in the United States is considered in a discussion of why the Clinton proposal failed...

defined as the indicator of positive or negative cost effectiveness (Russell et al, 1996). The problems that stem from this proc...

a list of advantages for patients, which include: * Greater coordination of services leads to higher quality care for the patient ...

advance at the time, but it created the scenario in which those receiving health care were not those paying for health care. As c...

financial or other barriers" (Canada Health Act, 2004). Financing and Payment Structures Local governments and municipaliti...

The provider may not charge either the patient or supplementary insurer an additional amount. "If the provider does not take assi...

the most frequently reported intervention classifications for NPs were patient education, drug management, nutrition support, risk...

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

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

But Romanov notes that the problem with todays system is that family care and primary care physicians are little more than gatekee...

trouble is, no one seems to want to point the finger at the cause. In fact, there is no one person, organization, or government ag...

Holism, after all, embodies the concept of healing. Holism embodies another concept as well, however, that is the concept of cari...