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its critics -- has been a goal of the U.S. government for many, many years and, for the most part, has had the support of most of ...

responsible for most health care expenditures, merely because of their age and the increased need for direct care with advancing a...

the problem and to eliminate it where possible. Nester (1998) quantifies the extent of the problem relating that an estimated 1,2...

success; yet each time they faced defeat. The evolution of these efforts and the reasons for their failure make for an intriguing...

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

patients, cleaning patients up, changing the beds for patients, helping patients go to the bathroom, and many other simple, but ne...

the same holds true about the theories with which these people are treated. In the United Kingdom, nurses specializing in forensi...

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

them. In common with other regions, Massachusetts is currently looking towards ways in which policies relating to those with menta...

with them to the first American Colonies, and mostly served as a model as to who would provide what services in the early, fledgli...

century will be healthier, longer and enriched for more people than ever before. Premature deaths, those that occur prior to age 5...

have been seen as requiring restructuring within the health service. For example, the public research which was conducted in the e...

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

In five pages a Q and A format is used to answer 2 questions posed by a student regarding health care professionals and the import...

which are characteristic of typical Web content" (Why XML, 2001). There are data converters that translate HTML to XML for use, b...

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...

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

unsafe by those who practice the procedure unskilled and unprepared for complications should they arise. So why do women still con...

time will tell if these bills will eventually be passed into national law. The purpose of this paper is to introduce five...

the country and that is because for the most part many of the health organizations do utilize Total Quality Management. This mode...

Zellars and Fiorito commented: "Although being effective seems an obvious requirement of staying in business, organizational effec...

the led. These distinctions depend on the ability to distinguish voluntary from involuntary compliance and to assess goal compati...

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

children should be returned to the care of abusive parents. Before launching into the actual meat of the paper, the studen...

ability to provide politicians with useful information to which they might not otherwise have access. By joining these groups tha...

- his strategy was turned down. "Though Mr. Clinton promised a simple plan that would guarantee choice along with security, he de...

1998, p. 111). Characteristic of a society where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the nations elderly citizens ...

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

The interplay of health issues with social policies is credited as being one of the reasons why the health indices in these countr...

professional specialties. Since autonomy is expected within the professional environment, programs which include student autonomy ...