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Health and the Impacts of Psychosocial Factors

In fifteen pages this paper discusses the impact of psychosocial factors upon health. Six sources are cited in the bibliography....

Long Term Solitary Confinement and Its Mental Health Impact

Prisoners spend as much as 22 hours a day in their cells, and the cells are now overcrowded (Weinstein and Cummins). The prisoner...

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...

The Global Health Problems Posed to Asian Children by AIDS

women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...

Nursing and the Impact of Electronic Data Security

The act of faxing patient information to another care-providing organization or third-party payer comes under privacy regulations ...

Health Care, Data Security, and Legislation

of a celebritys medical information and so on, there has been prompt attention to security by the law. There are many situations ...

Health Care Systems, Population Subgroups, and Teen Pregnancy

in the United States alone, "the annual cost of teen pregnancies from lost tax revenues, public assistance, child health care, fos...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

Male Health and Understanding Through Biomedical, Psychological, and Sociological Disciplines

is important to consider how the incidence of heart disease can be attributed to a combination of genetics and ones own personal p...

Social Classes and Health Care

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

Energy Policies of the European Union

has been declining, the level was only 50% of the budget in Framework Programme I that took place between 1984-7, which amounted t...

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...

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...

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...

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...