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Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: Using Data
Prior to entering the FNP program my sixteen years of nursing experience all took place in hospital settings, including work in the ICU, ER, cath lab, and same day surgery unit. I had never worked Continue Reading...
U.S. health care system in terms of the current issues prevalent which shape the U.S. health care policy. It addresses two main questions:
What are the activities affecting the U.S. healthcare system?
What is the impact of the specific economic, p Continue Reading...
The other dimension is related but is definitely separate. Some end-users are not only uninformed on how to administer electronic health records, they may actively resist and otherwise undermine the setup and these people need to be identified or e Continue Reading...
Employees Healthcare System
Obesity, Ageing, Healthcare and Statistics:
Obesity in the U.S.
Obesity has been referred to as a causal subject to just about 100,000 -- 400,000 demise in the America for every year and has augmented well-being and spe Continue Reading...
Communicable Disease - HIV
Since its discovery as a wasting disease, "gay-related immune deficiency" and "slim" in the mid-1980's, HIV has posed a significant health problem for the United States and the World. Initially considered mysteriously deva Continue Reading...
Paget's Disease Of Bone
James Paget, 1877
Paget's disease of bone
general information about disease
Etiology:
genetic causes
viral causes
Effects of disease
skeletal
spinal
neurological
Diagnosis of Disease
radiographic examinations
labo Continue Reading...
Technology on Health Care Services:
There are several promising breakthroughs that have been made in the health care sector in the past decade. These promising breakthroughs have emerged due to the influence of information technology in this field. Continue Reading...
Community development is concerned with tackling inequities, and with understanding the interconnections and pathways between the various determinants of health for particular communities.
The effectiveness of community development in health is enh Continue Reading...
Crohn's Disease
An Overview of the Most Pertinent Facts Relating to Crohn's Disease
Crohn's Disease Affects the Digestive System (Journey with Crohn's, N.d.)
Crohn's disease is a serious condition that afflicts roughly half a million people in Nor Continue Reading...
Web Health Care
Located in Wichita, Kansas, Via Christi Health is the agency that serves the eponymous region through the site via-christi.org. Via Christi provides care through hospitals, outpatient centers, senior communities, and in-home care for Continue Reading...
Human monkeypox can be distinguished from smallpox only by the development of the virus or the presentation of a virus-specific serological test with convalescent serum (Chapter 29: Human Monkeypox and other Poxvirus Infections of Man, n.d). People Continue Reading...
INTERNET'S IMPACT ON HEALTH CARE INFORMATION
Internet
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
The Internet's Impact on Health Care Information
This paper explores some of the best and well-known cites and sites around the world for infor Continue Reading...
Africans had poor health care in the 1950s
There is much that still remains swept under the proverbial carpet about America's treatment to its African immigrants. One of the chapters, little known and often left untold has only recently started to Continue Reading...
RFP in Healthcare Industry
Request for proposal in health care industry
Request for Proposal (RFP) in Healthcare Industry
In order to continually provide adequate Medicare to patients, a review of the electronic health record options reveal that t Continue Reading...
Community Health Assessment
Major risk factors identified in the assessment
A close look at the assessment reveals that there is no formal cardiology, oncology, and orthopedic programs alhough a couple of orthopedic cardiologists and surgeons maint Continue Reading...
Economic Issue in Health Care
Inflation affects all the segments of an economy; including individuals, businesses, and governments in a number of ways. The healthcare industry also takes its impacts on each and every aspect of its operations; like c Continue Reading...
Toward that same end, the new strategic plan must also include provisions for a comprehensive centralized governance system.
The second most important reason that MUSC requires a new strategic plan relates to the impact of managed care, HMO insuran Continue Reading...
Access to Health Care in USA
This research paper focuses on the degree of accessibility to the health care services in the U.S.A. Accessibility refers to the ability of an individual to meet health care needs and to acquire the needed medical servic Continue Reading...
Population Health
To prepare: • Review article "A Population Health Framework Setting National State Health Goals," focusing population health determinants. • Review information blog post "What Is Population Health?" • With informa Continue Reading...
Competitive Advantage in Healthcare Through Competitive Pricing
The healthcare industry is just like any other service sector that needs uniqueness and control over costs to excel. Since the cost of conducting business is increasing, there is a need Continue Reading...
Personal Reflections in Healthcare
Changes in Attitude toward other Health Professionals
When I first started studying healthcare, I had the expectation that everybody who works in the healthcare fields was highly motivated to provide quality care Continue Reading...
Health Sciences Information Resources
Ernst & Young (2001) describe the global health sciences marketplace as "a web created by pharmaceutical companies, biotech firms, eHealth companies, hospitals, physicians and other practitioners and medica Continue Reading...
Obama Care Plan
Health care is undergoing a dramatic transformation and needless to say it is one of our largest industries that contribute handsomely to the Gross Domestic Product, greater demands are placed for the value of dollars that are being Continue Reading...
Health and Wellness
Staying well is easy for some people, and others seem to always be battling some form of illness. Genetics play a part in how healthy a person generally remains throughout life, but there are other factors that come into play su Continue Reading...
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The bulk of quality improvement measures are working for managed care by providing insight as to what can be done to improve care therefore reduce mortality rates, and maintain a high level of customer satisfaction which in turn helps to build the Continue Reading...
Healthcare is currently undergoing fundamental change. First, baby boomers continue to utilize services at an alarming rate. The overall population is aging and as such, the healthcare infrastructure will need to change to accommodate changing dynami Continue Reading...
Admittedly, there have been some minor improvements since 2007. Specifically, legislation enacted in 2009 by President Barack Obama eliminated the ability of health insurance companies to exclude certain individuals from coverage and to deny covera Continue Reading...
Healthcare -- Doing as Much Good as Possible
Many healthcare professionals believe that medicine and ethics are integrated. I agree with this concept. To do good medicine, one must also do good ethics, and to do good ethics, one must also do very go Continue Reading...
Nevertheless, an individual may prefer to have this type of calculus removed for other reasons or otherwise as part of a long-term treatment regimen. For example, Bennett and Mccrochan note that, "When the American Dental Association later approved Continue Reading...
Community Assessment
Demographic Data
General Description
Georgetown is the county seat of Sussex County in Delaware. Georgetown is considered part of the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware metropolitan statistical area. It shares no boundaries with any Continue Reading...
, 2001). These two simple measures can drastically increase the subsequent spread of infectious disease throughout the country.
In Outbreak, the military institutes martial law to quarantine the infected populace in the town of Cedar Creek. Eventual Continue Reading...
Higher Health Care Costs on Businesses
Without doubt, America faces some heavy challenges in the forthcoming years. First, still reeling from the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States struggles to find the medium ground between Continue Reading...
S." (Liu, 2008) the actual solution to the challenges facing the health care system in the United States is one that makes a requirement of three components:
implementing tort reforms; mandating the use of best practices; and driving systemic proces Continue Reading...
Provide sustained technical assistance (Expert Panel Meeting: Health Information Technology: Meeting Summary, 2003)
Evaluation of the process in rural and small communities includes: (1) scope of the project; (2) goals; (3) critical success factor Continue Reading...
FIBROMYALGIA OUTLINE and PAMPHLET
Introduction to Fibromyalgia
Symptoms of Fibromyalgia
Effects of the symptoms on the body.
Risk factors and preventive steps.
(1) Demographics.
Diagnosis and Treatment for fibromyalgia.
Therapeutic and diagnos Continue Reading...
Improving Health for Children With Asthma
Childhood Asthma
Improving Health Outcomes for Inner-City Children with Asthma
Improving Health Outcomes for Inner-City Children with Asthma
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) engages in act Continue Reading...
Cancer Drug Development
Economic issues
Special health needs
Process (decision, steps) involved in program
Benefits of program
Cancer is amongst fatal diseases that involve abnormal growth of body cells resulting is unusual growth and division o Continue Reading...
End-of-Life Health Care
Imagine this scenario: a patient has end stage heart failure, coronary artery disease, peripheral artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and sleep apnea. She has refused any invasive treatments for many years, Continue Reading...
Phase II consists of efficacy trials of the drug, which are tested on volunteers of the target population. When everything goes right, the drug manufacturer discusses the development process, continued human testing, other concerns and protocols for Continue Reading...