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Annotated Bibliography on Health Tourism

funding. This article is important because it raises issues of ethics, questions of control and question of the potential problem...

The Elderly, Prescription Drug Abuse and Alcoholism

like alcohol. Alcoholism and Prescription Drug Abuse The elderly population is the fastest growing demographic group in the Un...

San Diego Hospitals and the Impact of Uninsured Individuals

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...

Access to Health Care and the Discrimination and Stigma of HIV and AIDS

on coverage based in what has been deemed "pre-existing conditions" and to refuse coverage to individuals based on everything from...

La Nina, El Nino, and Ecological Impacts

the number and severity of cyclones, disruptions to fisheries and destruction of coral reefs, flooding, mudslides, death inflictin...

Proposed Changes to the Existing Canadian Health Care System

Health Act, 2004). Nevertheless, recently the provincial government of British Columbia found it necessary to pass legislation lev...

World Health Impact of Dust Storms

far as the mouth, nose or throat. Finer particles by contrast are able to reach deeper into the respiratory system, more easily i...

Healthcare and Dictates of Culture

a model in which not only the biological components of illness were considered but also the psychological and sociological compone...

Social Classes and Health Care

people who are uninsured, while many more are underinsured (Reports Say Millions Getting Second-Class Health Care Treatment, 2003)...

AMAPAC and its Impact Upon Universal Health Care Coverage in America

field of medicine was not a very stable one, with almost anyone hanging out a shingle and calling themselves a doctor (American Me...

Psychoneuroimmunology and the Connection Between the Body and Mind

Those who continue to be exposed to high levels of stress for prolonged periods of time end up being distressed. The authors state...

South Florida, Pediatric Asthma, and Health Promotion

of increasing costs still further and marginalizing greater numbers of individuals and families who no longer can afford the highe...

Impacts of Tobacco Evaluated

"tobacco kills more than 125,000 American women, mostly through cigarette-induced heart disease, lung cancer, and other lung...

General Medical Services Contract, National Health Service, and Practice Nursing

practitioner surgeries are run by practice nurses, only making referrals to other members of the healthcare team when required, Th...

State Systems and the Effects of Globalization

effortlessly leap once imposing territorial and cultural borders which can have major consequences on state "sovereignty, prosperi...

Anxiety and the Impact of Colors

in his or her treatment of those with anxiety disorders. In a case study, Harry Wohlfarth and Catherine Sam of the University of ...

Airline Industry After Terrorist Attacks of 2001

spirit, that the company regrouped, restructured and in many instances showing a profit despite the ongoing hostilities with bin L...

RN Nurses in Canada and Impact of Health Care Reforms

services. It was a clear presumption that womens contributions -- no matter how physically or mentally trying -- did not carry an...

Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension a.k.a. DASH

documented that "total cholesterol levels were reduced in patients following the DASH diet by an average of 7.3 percent and LDL-C ...

The Employment Situations in California and in America as a Whole

with links to Silicon Valley, but the "ripple effect" carried over into the myriad support businesses that depended on the revenue...

Research Issues and Actor Network Theory

contribute in practice to the understanding of implementation of the electronic patient record. To undertake this there will be a...

The Changing Nature of Health Care in the U.S.

expected only to continue for several years to come. Then, growth will begin to decline in response to fewer numbers of people re...

Health Care and Economics Principles

at regular prices, but interest increases when the store drops the price from $50 to $5. In other words, demand increases when pr...

HIPAA and its Impact

Someone with a chronic disease like diabetes would have to shell out hundreds of dollars each month for supplies if they choose to...

Medicare Managed Care and Impact of Macroeconomics

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

President John F. Kennedy's 1963 Community Mental Health Law

a problem that is difficult to define adequately. There is much competition in the health field, and in the mental health field t...

Nursing Scholars, Feminism, and Postmodernism

As a socially committed citizen who addresses health needs of the local, national, and global community, nursing will forever be h...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Health Care and the Culture of Greece

without mentioning their love affair with olive oil, and the esteem which this precious ingredient holds in this culture (Miller, ...

Child Poverty Health Perspectives

Assembly Special Session on Children, held in May of 2002, adopted a draft resolution designed to protect the worlds children from...