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A Critique of the 2006 - 2011 Indian Health Service Strategic Plan

the management of health care programs that affect them. The 2006 - 2011 Strategic Plan not only focuses on performance of ...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Public Health Issues

It is clear to most people that the amount of money the federal government spends on health care must be reduced. At the current r...

COBRA and What It Means to the Economy

The role of public and private entities in health care is not a new debate. This paper details the Consolidated Omnibus Resolution...

CASE STUDIES BASED ON AAMF CODE OF ETHICS

Presents four cast studies concerning ethics and family/marriage therapy. Topics involve religion, culture, technology and managed...

Managed Care and Medical Ethics

In forty five pages this research study examines medical ethics in the managed care organization environment. Thirty sources are ...

Dilemmas and Issues Facing Managed Care Workers

In six pages this paper discusses problems including ethics that are confronting managed care workers and what is being proposed t...

Issues in Implementing Change for a Healthcare Company

The writer looks at a scenario where a home care health organization wants to introduce an electronic patient records system. The ...

HMOs and The Evolution of Managed Care

century, business and corporations began offering pre-paid health insurance programs to railroad workers, miners and dockworkers. ...

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...

Senior Citizens and Healthcare Issues

In eight pages such healthcare issues as managed care, health rationing, improved medical technology, and increased life expectanc...

HMOs and Health Care in the United States

In eight pages this paper discusses America's managed health care delivery systems in an overview of HMOs and their negative perce...

New York's HMOs and Managed Health Care

In fourteen pages this paper presents an overview of managed health care and then focuses upon legal, staffing, and financial cons...

PPOs v. HMOs

an employer. Under the HMO system the traditional fee-for-service setup of medicine in which a doctor is paid for each patient vis...

Freedom of Choice for Patients and Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper examines freedom of choice options for patients and how they are affected by managed health care. Six s...

Overview of Managed Health Care

In seven pages this paper is formatted as a speech that considers managed health care and addresses the system's various problems....

Patients, Physicians, and Managed Health Care

In twenty pages this paper assesses the impact of the managed health care system upon the relationship between doctor and patient ...

Managed Care Organizations and Psychological Services

In twenty pages this paper examines mental health services as they have increasingly become a part of the managed care landscape. ...

The Use of a Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Health Care Industry

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

MANAGING HEALTHCARE FOR THE UNINSURED

The problem is that the system is broken when it comes to getting appropriate healthcare to the uninsured. Even if Congress passes...

Financial Statements: Helping To Evaluate A Hospital's Financial Viability

having done so. Performance measures in general help to provide a composite of the respective hospitals financial viability, howe...

Medicare, Health Care Issues, and the Presidential Election of 2004

that gives patients more options while maintaining fewer requirements (McKelvey, 2004). It is something that should strengthen the...

Questioning Health Policy

who suffer from cancer, arthritis, AIDS, multiple sclerosis or acute back pain are known to frequently turn to alternative medicin...

Jacobs, Marmor and Oberlander's The Political Paradox of Rationing and the State Health Plan of Oregon

subject of rationing health care. The authors look at the years 1989 through 1995 and laws which were put in place in Oregon to ad...

Iceland and Health Care Delivery

primarily through government funding supported by tax receipts. Icelands national health care system "receives 85% of its funding...

Health and Gender Inequality

2000). Even as recently as just a couple of decades ago, conditions such as cramps, pregnancy nausea and even labor pains were oft...

Health Care Services Case Study

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

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

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...

Health Care Communication

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