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Modern Society and Heart Disease

advertising by big businesses that has contributed in a large part to the decline in the health of the average American citizen. ...

Coney Island and Heart Disease Community Proposal

in the general area, but that the population immediately surrounding the church is rather homogeneous. Nearly 29 percent of Coney...

An Examination of a Tool for Aggregate Assessment

Erie, Pennsylvania (Minnis, 2002). As is the case here, the aggregate for which this tool was developed is that of persons over t...

The Field of Nursing and Issues of Aggregate Introduction and Diagnoses in Health Promotion

already has been diagnosed as having some form of heart disease. In that sense, primary prevention is not possible. The goals of...

Executive Summary on Englewood, Chicago, Illinois' Rates of Infant Mortality

in the state of Illinois. In assessing the statistical data provided by organizations like the World Health Organization, the Na...

Surgical Procedure Known As Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

the patient engage in more physical activity (Bypass surgery..., 2005). Chronic conditions that can increase the patients risk of ...

Heart Disease and the Role of Cholesterol

cholesterol has been believed to be a correlate in heart disease for several decades. In a February 1990 "American Family Physici...

Heart Disease, Women, and Health Promotion

average age of just over seventy years of age in women, almost sixty years old in men. Coronary heart disease strikes women two t...

Study Critique on Women and Heart Failure

but the prognostic factors that influence the progression of coronary disease in women has not been intensely investigated and may...

Comparison of Caucasian and African American Men Rates of Prostate Cancer

In nine pages this paper compares the incidence rates between Caucasian and African American men regarding prostate cancer. Five ...

Screening for Colon and Rectal Cancer

100,000 population (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1997). Survival rate is dependent upon the stage of the disease w...

Cancer and Homes with Unacceptable Radon Gas Levels

types of rock may have higher concentrations of uranium and may produce higher levels of radon, elevated radon levels can also be ...

Heart Rate and Running Speed Effects

If you go past your lactate threshold--during interval training, for example, which we describe next--youll generally need 48 hour...

A Quantitative Research Report Analysis

Smith, et al. (2002) do not highlight a specific problem statement, but rather present a research question used to establish a fra...

Exercise During Pregnancy

In four pages this paper discusses the importance of prenatal exercise but also cautions regarding changes in body temperature, he...

Cervical and Breast Cancer and Nutrition's Effects

of cell cycle progression change when cells become cancerous. One of these aspects is the proto-oncoprotein c-Src (Taylor and Sha...

Human Subjects Usage Research Proposal

What do the findings suggest for future research? The hypotheses for this study are: H(1): The consuming of five caffeine table...

Breast Cancer Prevention Strategies

This research paper reviews recent research that indicates prevention strategies that affect overall risk for breast cancer. Six p...

CHF Guidelines and Readmission Rates

the highest readmission rates for congestive heart failure (CHF), as well as other conditions (DeFelice, et al, 2010). Initially, ...

Refusal of Palliative Care/Bioethics

this incident may have contributed to her divorce. It is also true that her mother has had a problem with alcoholism for over twen...

Period and its Impact on the Incidence of Deep Wound Infection in Diabetic Individuals Undergoing Open Heart Surgery

Researchers have identified nutrition as a significant factor in wound healing. In fact, it has been argued that nutritional elem...

The Tell-Tale Heart

a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...

Research Proposal on Intervention Studies Precutaneous Revascularization, Pharmacotherapy, and Exercise in PADr

problems with the arteries that carry the blood away from the heart. In recent years, a focus on arteriosclerosis, hardening of t...

Global Implications of Disease Pathology

In five pages this paper discusses disease pathology and its global implications with effects of human transfer of disease and eco...

How We Live & How We Feel About Dying

that she does not want to see him to go his death "not owning up to the part" that he played in death of his victim (Prejean 179)....

Alcoholism is a Disease

indicates that, "Genetics and family history are increasingly thought to play a significant role in whether a person develops alco...

The effect on health of cognitive appraisal

This paper looks at the way in which people's general health might be affected by cognitive appraisals: the writer also considers ...

Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

In eight pages this paper discusses Joseph Conrad's battles with depression and how this affected his novel Heart of Darkness. Ni...

Mortality's Realization and its Human Impact

out doctor-assisted suicide. "We rarely go gentle into that good night" (Nuland, 1995, p. PG), because the body typically goes th...

Patient Teaching Plan on Diabetes and the Internet

In five pages this paper examines how the Internet can be used as a tool to teach patients how to manage the disease diabetes....