1000 Search Results for Controlling Health Care Costs
Universal Health Care
At least once a week news shows do segments about the rising cost of health care in America. There was a time when those who did not have insurance were those who did not work and they were provided with health care through the Continue Reading...
Care for Diabetic Foot Ulcers in Long-Term Care Residents
Diabetic foot ulcers are chronic wounds that negatively affect the morbidity, mortality and quality of life of diabetes patients. Diabetic patients who develop foot ulcers are at greater ris Continue Reading...
Care Case Study
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There have been enormous changes due to introduction of various cultural elements in the continuum of care. Before, when people were admitted to assisted living facilities or hospital settings, there were very lit Continue Reading...
Quality Care
Although there are several considerations one must weigh prior to defining medical care quality, one of the most effective definitions of this term is that care which ultimately achieves the greatest benefit while taking the lowest risk Continue Reading...
Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique
Non-Infectious Disease
Major Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique of the Research Literature
Major Risk Factors for Obesity: A Critique of the Research Literature
The World Health Organization (WHO, 2013) est Continue Reading...
It is at this point when staff members can reduce errors and enhance their ability to understand the patient's condition. This will lead to a transformation in the way they are able to interact and comprehend the best approaches for dealing with the Continue Reading...
Evolution of Health Care Information Systems Physician's Office Operation
Filling in the hole of health care information technology will endorse safe, capable, patient-centered, and patient care that is fruitful in a timely way. In this essay, the t Continue Reading...
Caring is important to human kind and in our daily experiences. Although caring is fundamental, knowledge about it and its application is not one of the serious academic concerns. Caring as a topic can raise various descriptions. In nursing as a dis Continue Reading...
GREEN MOUNTAIN CAREGreen Mountain CareThe universal care in Vermant was to be enacted in form of a single-payer system which largely borrowed on a Health System Reform design authored by the consultant. The health system reform design was a proposal Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act
Since its enactment in 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has transformed the way in which healthcare is provided in America. With its primary aim being to address "long-standing challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system rel Continue Reading...
Priorities & Predictions of Healthcare CFOs
The key take away from the article is that patient satisfaction will become the top priority for Chief Financial Officers (CFOs). Before the MACRA of 2015, hospitals and healthcare organizations gained Continue Reading...
This could be due to the fact that the middle aged population is facing more stress, pressure and inadequate nutrition, all causes of obesity (Webb and Whitney, 2008)
In each age group, women have a decreased access to medical insurance as compared Continue Reading...
There are some situations and outcomes within the healthcare industry where it is important to pay attention to what happens, what could be done, what should be done and why all of the above is true. Indeed, one of those things would be the treatment Continue Reading...
Health Behavior
The "Theories At A Glance" manual discussed a variety of healthy behaviors. Select two theories that can be used to explain why people behave the way they do. Discuss the basic premise and constructs of the theories you choose. Cite Continue Reading...
Diabetes is one of the major non-communicable diseases today. In the U.S., approximately 9% of the general population have diagnosed or undiagnosed diabetes, with a further 37% estimated to be pre-diabetic (CDC, 2016). The disease increasingly impose Continue Reading...
Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) in the United States of America. It also discusses its association with different diseases. It highlights the role played by federal and state government to control this disease from preventing. In addition to that this p Continue Reading...
Affordable Care Act
What is the ACA?
The 2010 Affordable Care Act or the PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act - HR3590), nicknamed Obamacare, is the latest American healthcare reform legislation. The PPACA encompasses the Patient Prot Continue Reading...
3 miles from the area with 2 more within 200 miles.
Cocoa Beach, FL
Cruises are abundant from the Cocoa Beach area according to Cocoabeach.com which gives the following information:
CARNIVAL CRUISE LINE
In October 1993, Carnival Cruise Lines gave Continue Reading...
Between 1995-2002, 99% of all births in Russia were attended by skilled health personnel, while the number of physicians per 100,000 people was 420 between 1990-2003, and the number of people with sustainable access to affordable essential drugs in Continue Reading...
Eating for Good Health - Safe Weight Loss vs. Fad Dieting
This paper explores the need for safe weight loss and healthy eating, as opposed to the fad diets often featured on television, in newspapers and in magazines. For the purposes of this paper, Continue Reading...
A1. Advantages and Disadvantages of a System
All health information systems (HIS) come with great advantages and some disadvantages that must be taken in account to keep patients safe. A HIS is a system that captures, retains information, and helps m Continue Reading...
A. Identify a current nursing practice within your healthcare setting that requires change.HIS in Nursing practice1. Describe the current nursing practice.HMISs (Health Management Information Systems) are included among the building blocks vital to s Continue Reading...
Prevention of Back Injuries
Twenty percent of the injuries experienced in the work place in America are back injuries. In some areas, such as EMS, these injuries are responsible for the fact that at any point in time, ten percent of their workers ar Continue Reading...
Globalization has brought tremendous benefits to human society, in terms of quality of life, but as with anything, it comes with costs. Many authors have argued that there are both positive and negative effects of globalization, and to evaluate the m Continue Reading...
Health Care
There are many things that have led to the renaissance of public health in the past 20 years. However, the most important ones include eradication of infectious diseases through vaccination, increased awareness, better hygiene control, b Continue Reading...
Essay Topic Examples
1. The Role of Health Information Management (HIM) Operations Managers in Ensuring Data Integrity:
This essay will explore the critical function of HIM Operations Managers in maintaining the accuracy, con Continue Reading...
Prevention methods, combined with education have been shown to effectively prevent malaria and this is good because, the infrastructure of poor nations is often inadequate to care for those who do fall ill. Many malaria treatment medications are ve Continue Reading...
Health-Care Data at Euclid Hospital Security and Control: A White Paper
Protecting Health-Care Data
The efficiency of the modern healthcare system is increasingly becoming reliant on a computerized infrastructure. Open distributed information syste Continue Reading...
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Type I diabetes is usually diagnosed in children and young adults and results from the body's failure to produce insulin. Type 1 account for 5% to 10% of all diagnosed cases of diabetes (Centers for Disease Control, National Diabetes Continue Reading...
Price ceilings only shift the burden of achieving average cost equilibrium around to different people within the system.
The author does touch on reduced amounts of competition as a factor in increasing costs. There was more competition in the 1990 Continue Reading...
Market Orientation of Medical Diagnostic Units
Dissertation for Master of Health Administration i. Introduction ii. Objectives iii. Description iv Administrative Internship v. Scope and Approach vi. Growth vii. Methodology viii. Hypothesis ix. Surve Continue Reading...
The way that this can be accomplished is by forming boards that are similar to Long-Term Care Committees. The only difference is that they would severe a similar role as a medical control board. Where, they will have the responsibility for determini Continue Reading...
This is because individuals, especially those with families, view a health plan as an essential hedge against risk of catastrophic illness or injury. The public option will cap the price of insurance, so that buyers are no longer price takers above Continue Reading...
However, it presented the major problems of covering only half of the workers of the labor force and the undercutting of political support for public health insurance (Berkowitz).
The 50s
As social security became popular and Congress passed bills Continue Reading...
Healthcare Access
Advanced Nursing Practice
Nora Pender Model of Health Promotion:
Improving healthcare access to underserved diabetes patients in rural areas
The health promotion theory used to justify this project will by that of the Nora Pende Continue Reading...
Filling the Gap Wisely
Nurse Practitioner Workforce
There is no question that healthcare costs have been weighing heavy on policy makers, especially with an aging 'baby-boom' generation and passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Continue Reading...
jobs, but the one in which I was most significantly effected by ethical challenges was the time I spent working in the business office and customer service department of a large Health Management Organization (HMO). For reasons of anonymity and beca Continue Reading...
Already, nearly 17% of American healthcare costs are linked to obesity (Bhasha, 2010). Under the new health care reform legislation of 2010, employers are not allowed to deny insurance based on a person's weight; however, there's a caveat in which e Continue Reading...
Health Advocacy Campaign
The basic purpose of the consumer education programs is to promote awareness about the effects that tobacco has on our health. These programmes have basically been made in a way to induce fear in the people in order to empha Continue Reading...
Healthcare Economics and Perspective of Sociology
Five years from now, the ACA will improve American health care delivery as well as reduce costs of health care services. Health insurance coverage reforms will uphold the principles of ACA through nu Continue Reading...