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persons health" (Tickner). The implication of this survey is of political interest; says Tickner: "Disparaging attacks on long ter...

promotion can address a variety of nursing clients in a variety of circumstances. For example, Richardson (2002) acknowledges that...

healthcare services to senior citizens, which is an at-risk population in this country. One helping approach for people with dis...

workers (Center for American Progress, 2007). Something must be done. Universal health care has been proposed by many politicians...

patient (Seidel, 2004). This author also states that effective communication is something that can and must be learned (Seidel, 2...

2008). Further significant improvement is unlikely in the near future, however. Californias Efforts Governor Arnold Schwar...

allergies. He has never been involved in a serious industrial or automobile accident (Physical assessment, 2007). He is not taking...

of literature about biomedical ethics relative to patient autonomy. This type of autonomy is limited, at best, with managed health...

absence of disease and infirmity" ("Definitions of Health and Fitness," 2006). Health promotion, on the other hand, " is the combi...

apple shaped rather than a pear shaped body) has been associated with an increased risk for heart disease" (The metabolic syndrome...

hallways of hospitals, it does seem to contain a great deal of minority workers. Yet, it is not clear who are in managerial roles ...

this were not a political issue then the attention would be focused elsewhere, also that with increasing costs in healthcare the n...

cost effectiveness (The Conference Board of Canada, 2005). In Australia, for example, a physician located in one area can examine ...

those Aboriginal people living on reserves--in fact--the entire history of "colonialist and paternalistic relations" between the g...

(Briggs, 2003). At the lower levels of the hierarchy there is also a very clear and specified role to accept "personal responsibil...

well as making it clear that HIV/AIDS is not only an issue which affects other countries but is also very relevant to residents of...

would have no need for surgical gloves, but a hospital or a stand-alone outpatient surgery clinic has need for both. A mate...

eligibility is determined by age and health status. Implementation difficulties reflect the perpetual absence of adequate funding...

quality of life to a term relative to happiness. This result is less measurable than the authors had hoped, and so they proposed ...

In addition to these operational benefits, the state in which databases exist today enable organizations to use the data contained...

2005, p.165). In obese children, the number of fat cells present in the body can be as much as three times higher than in normal w...

actual sexual violence (Pateman, 2002). Students further learn how to set sexual limits and the need to respect the limits of othe...

E-Health resources are utilized not just by the healthcare establishment itself but also by patients and consumers (HIMSS, 2006; E...

now our nations elderly have depended on Medicare/Medicaid for their medical needs. The Medicare/Medicaid system upon which these...

Foundation, 2006). In 2003, at least US$700 million was spent by Americans purchasing drugs from Canadian pharmacies (Kaiser Famil...

course, there is no need to go into depth, as an entire course does, when speaking of a general health course. A general health co...

knowledge safely and appropriately" (p. 17). Morath (2003) went so far as to state clearly that the U.S. healthcare system is dang...

and three stores," which served as "stock rooms, milk stations, clinics," etc. (Lillian Wald). Roughly 3,000 people typically were...

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

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