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Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

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

Winners and Losers Among Health Care Providers

however. This investigation is concerned more with the dynamics between payers, providers and consumers. Has government healthcar...

Defining a Healthcare System in the U.S.

to protect doctors from expensive lawsuits is thin. Although health care is problematic in the United States for a variety of rea...

Women, Literacy and Health Care Critique of “A Winning Combination: Women, Literacy and Participation in Health Care”

by practicing nurses in this area. Both of the authors also hold advanced degrees: one holds a Masters degree and teaches at a co...

Health Care System of Canada

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

PPS Health Care Payment Systems

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

Healthcare and Caribbean vs. South American Perspectives

In a paper that consists of five pages women's mental health care and the differing perspectives between the Caribbean and South A...

Health Promotion Rationale and Coronary Heart Disease

(Link and Tanner, 2001). Research has found that some clients may be suffering from myocardial infarction (MI) even when they have...

Managed Care and Politics

partners. The relationship dates back to at least 1945 when Harry Truman wanted to "wage war against infirmity" (Jones, 2003, p. 3...

Health Care, Cost Control

This paper offers an overview of health care cost control strategies during the last 4 decades, and also strategies that might wor...

Health Care Reform by Paul Starr

This essay offers a review and analysis of Paul Starr's Remedy and Reaction: The Peculiar American Struggle Over Health Care Refor...

Aspects That Make Good Communities

find help through federal programs, although there are problems of access within these systems. If the federal or state government...

Health Care Management, Hiring and Retention of Employees

offer a whole-life support system. This serves managers and employees alike. Myths about Human Motivation...

Euthanasia and Opposition to Its Practice

The arguments in support of euthanasia center around quality of life issues, pain and suffering, and the common good (Kowalski, 19...

Australian Social Classes and Health Care Inequalities

conflict theory reflects the basic elements of social life (Turner, 1974; Chambliss, 1974). Human nature is defined by myri...

Possibility of Universal Health Care in the US

"no taxation." Joe Blankeneau reports "the United States is the only modern, industrialized country without some form of un...

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...

1994 Baby Deaths at Canada's Winnipeg Health Sciences Center

In seven pages this paper examines the post heart surgery deaths of 12 babies in this Canadian health care facility in a discussio...

Nursing and Health Care Political Issues

the same sort of indirect methods that they have advocated will aid the economy. For example, the Republicans are pursuing putting...

Questions on Financing of U.S. Health Care

argue that advocates of merged organizations have not achieved the success they expected. In each case, the form that the hospital...

Health Coverage and Catholic Women

the situations are not precisely parallel. A closer analogy might be if businesses owned by orthodox Jews argued that they did not...

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...

Errors in Health Care

on the other hand, are certainly not immune from making errors. Everyone has heard horror stories of doctors amputating t...

Jean Watson's Nursing Theory

and technology, however, she refers to these elements as the "Trim," which is a term she originated that differentiates between ca...

LEADERSHIP: FOUNDATION OF A PATIENT SAFETY CULTURE

a part of the healthcare culture. Technology, however, has led to some wonderful things in healthcare, from the polio vacci...

Future of Pharmacy

the procedures for preparing medications, procedures for dispensing medications, and the responsibilities of a pharmacy profession...

THE U.S. AND CANADIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS

came to the conclusion (interestingly enough) that healthcare outcomes didnt differ based on the public vs. private option. The re...

A Comparison of Two Hospitals

for a health care organization. Genesys took on an elaborate task in creating a wellness center where state of the art care can be...

PROCESS CENTERED CONCEPT AND HEALTH CARE

Focuses on process-centered organizations and how it would work with health care. There are 2 sources listed in the bibliography o...

Definitions of Nursing Meta-paradigms

the profession of nursing has developed some basic ideas that serve as the foundation that guides all subsequent professional prac...