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Minorities and Health Care Disparities

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

Australia's Dental Industry

In eight pages this paper discusses public and private dental care system problems in Australia with possible solutions offered. ...

American Society and the Distribution of Health Care

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

System of National Health Care and the U.S.

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

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

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...

NJ's Advanced Practice Nurses

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

Alberta, Canada, and Health Care Privatization Issues

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

US System of Foster Care

protection laws first came into the foster care and legal system in 1874 when it was found that Mary Ellen, a child ward of the st...

Analyzing Michigan's Kalamazoo Asylum for the Insane

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

Universal Health Care Economic Impact

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

Health Care Needs in Contemporary America

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

Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China

desire for the latest developments (The managed care evolution, 2004). Unfortunately, super-sophisticated medical technology is e...

TELEMEDICINE AND VALUE TO THE HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

radiologist must travel to a rural hospital to examine the images (Gamble et al, 2004). If he or she cant travel, then a courier w...

DIABETES AND COST INCREASES

the rise, more people are needing the drug therapies to help with controlling the disease (Buono, 2008). Its estimated that diabet...

Reforming Health Care

the fact that Americans demand extraordinary health care but refuse to pay for it; that medical science is now able to extend life...

Discrepancies Between Aspirations and Reality in Health Care

group are already marginalized by virtue of having the condition; their aspirations therefore are lower than for others, because "...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

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...

Management - Glass Ceiling - Managing Oneself

reported that among Fortune 500 companies, women hold 16 percent of corporate officer jobs and 15 percent of Board seats. Among th...

The Value of the Family

individual family member are considered within this context (Friedman, Bowden and Jones 37). In analyzing the various theories th...

Issues of Concern to Prison Inmates

a company rather than career corrections officers, they are underpaid, demoralized, and the turnover is high (Friedmann, 1999). Pr...

21st Century Leadership For Health Care Organizations

and they want guidance to improve their conditions and diseases Canton (2007) reminds the reader that technology has changed eve...

Cultural Considerations and the U.S. Health Care System

and others is becoming more and more diverse. Mwaura (2006) emphasizes that every culture has experienced a similar evolu...

Patient Satisfaction As An Indication of Clinical Quality

Agency for Healthcare and Quality as "doing the right thing, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person-and having ...

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...

Family Systems/The Postpartum Mother

of family such as the one cited above. In many instances hospitals adhere to the traditional definition, which means that the poli...

Expanding Primary Care at Blackwell Health System

from large teaching hospitals, leaving them with the more seriously ill patients, whose care also is the most costly (Johnson and ...

Alpha Personal Dental Care Systems (Case Study Analysis)

to the current idea, the concept of the toothbrush is more than just an implement where the brush portion could be changed every s...

The Major Problems of the U.S. Health Care System

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

Ethics of a Two-Tier Health System

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