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The Uninsured in the United States
According to Newport and Mendez (2009) about 17.3% of the American population does not have health insurance. The uninsured are seen in families that work. Studies show that 51% of the fami Continue Reading...
("Qualitative research...," 2008, Sampling Issues section)
Groenwald (2004) also stresses that in regard to the phenomenon the researcher identifies/describes, the unique or minority voices serve as vital counterpoints to relate.
Data Collection M Continue Reading...
Uninsured on San Francisco
Development of Community Health Support Services
San Francisco has one of the most extensive and successful health support systems for uninsured individuals in any major metropolitan area in the United Stats, and though Continue Reading...
Another factor, which increases the number of working uninsured, is the increase of healthcare costs. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, employees costs have risen by 47% and employers have seen a 20% increase. The employee's higher percenta Continue Reading...
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The Uninsured of San Francisco
San Francisco is the only major metropolis in the United States that provides some level of healthcare to all of its citizens, with services designed specifically for those who are uninsured or underinsu Continue Reading...
Uninsured Population
Healthcare
The health of a population is not only based on the strength of its health care professionals and diagnostic capabilities -- to a great extent, the health of a population is shaped by factors that exist outside of i Continue Reading...
Health Disparities of Uninsured
Statistics show that approximately 47 million of America's population lacks medical coverage, and another 38 million has inadequate health insurance. What these statistics imply is that one-third of Americans are inse Continue Reading...
And any reform process will produce some initial pain: the voting "middle class may be dissatisfied but most of them have employer insurance, so they have something to lose...They are not prepared for a national experiment that will threaten what th Continue Reading...
Application of Public Health Concepts for the Uninsured: The Effects on the Health Sector
Introduction
Application of public health is of major concern to DNP-prepared nurses in their different fields and places of practice. Since the 20th century, p Continue Reading...
Insured/Uninsured and the Effects on Hospice
As a Healthcare Organization
The United States healthcare system includes health plans, physicians, hospitals, clinics, consumers, and public health programs as well as hospice organizations. This report Continue Reading...
Health Policy Economics class. Master Degree level. It 8-12 pages long 10 resources. The topic Over-Utilization Emergency Room Services. I uploading project details.
Reliance on emergency departments for non-emergent services has been on the increa Continue Reading...
Healthcare Policy:
An Overview of the Uninsured and Underinsured in America
An alarming number of people in the United States today do not have health-care coverage. Many of these people live in urban areas and their income is below the official go Continue Reading...
financial impact vulnerable population. Consider: o the impact age groups, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic education level o Health illness trends, disease morbidity mortality population o Health care service, acute care, long-term care, nursing ho Continue Reading...
Statistics show that hospitals bore more than $5 billion in costs in treating uninsured patients. This creates a huge financial pressure on them and there is no alternative but to have the uncompensated care costs to be charged to the insured patien Continue Reading...
1. Assess the data needed to design the program and collection method.Opioid use disorder has become a growing concern in the United States. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have declared it a public health epidemic due to the rise in a Continue Reading...
787,000 young Americans were added to the population of insured individuals, indicating a concentration on resource penetration in this specific population subset.
Administrative Impact:
The administrative implications of the Affordable Care Act a Continue Reading...
Figure 1 portrays the state of Maryland, the location for the focus of this DRP.
Figure 1: Map of Maryland, the State (Google Maps, 2009)
1.3 Study Structure
Organization of the Study
The following five chapters constitute the body of Chapter I Continue Reading...
Evidence Based Practice
University of Illinois Evidence Based Medicine Resources: Lessons Learned
From the search resources I learned that in evidence based medicine, patient values comprising of their unique concerns, preferences, and expectations i Continue Reading...
Health insurance coverage is one of the major issues at the core of initiatives to reform the United States health sector. This issue has attracted considerable attention in health reform initiatives because of the relatively high number of uninsured Continue Reading...
Charity Patients
WHEN HEALTHCARE IS LIMITED
Treating Charity Patients
Charity or uninsured patients do not receive adequate health care. They cannot afford it as hospitals charge them to four times more than those with healthcare coverage (The Ass Continue Reading...
Healthcare Systems
healthcare system is regarded as one of the most expensive across the globe though it underperforms as compared to other developed and/or advanced countries. The states of America's healthcare system relative to its costs have at Continue Reading...
Affordable Health Insurance
The Need for State Participation in Health Care Insurance Exchanges to Provide for Affordable Health Care for Millions of Americans in Need
In the United States, we have basic rights to life and liberty. Yet, many major Continue Reading...
The Affordable Care Act means that health coverage will be required for almost every American and will be partially subsidized. However, it will not change the employer-centric, private-insurer-based system of financing and coverage. Demand for care Continue Reading...
(Menzel, 1990, p. 3) Fisher, Berwick, & Davis alude to the idea of integration in health care, with providers linking as well as creating networks of electronic medical records and other cost improvement tactics.
The United States and other nat Continue Reading...
Health policy is a term that is commonly used to refer to plans, decisions, and initiatives that are carried out to accomplish specific goals relating to delivery of health care and promoting the well-being of individuals within a community. As a res Continue Reading...
INTERNAL ENVIRONMENT ASSESSEMENT JACKSON MEMORIAL HOSPITAL Miami, Florida
Major services/products provided including key technologies
Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami Florida offers a variety of services and uses state of the art technology. In a Continue Reading...
cartoon in the Albuquerque Journal on September 15, 2009. The gist of the article revolves around choices in healthcare and who is responsible for those choices. In the first panel, and insurance salesman is talking with an average American asking, Continue Reading...
Running head: WAYNE COUNTY ASSESSMENT WAYNE COUNTY ASSESSMENT 9Project and Wayne County AssessmentThe Need for the InterventionSeveral health-related issues arise from the Wayne County Assessment 1999-2004. First, approximately 10 percent of the popu Continue Reading...
PPSPA bills would have enabled federal regulation to perform this more efficiently than present regulation efforts exerted by the States and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education or ACGME. Restrictions to the ACGME self-regulation Continue Reading...
Financial Analysis of Affordable Health Care Plan in Maryland
The implementation of the Affordable Health Care Plan in Maryland requires comprehensive analysis of the financial aspects of this health policy relative to its health benefits, especiall Continue Reading...
Financing Health Care in the 21st Century
Cost Containment: the United States government
Unlike virtually every other industrialized country in the world, the United States provides medical care to its citizens through the private workplace, primar Continue Reading...
As a result, millions of Americans remain unable to bear the heavy financial toll of medical expenses. Indeed, the problem of a lack of insurance for many is related to the problem of the cost of healthcare. So confirms the article by Consumer Repor Continue Reading...
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The Health Maintenance Organization further should "…negotiate with both public and private payers for adequate reimbursement or direct payment to cover the expenses of interpreter services so that they can establish services with Continue Reading...
Chapter 2: Review of Related Literature
Chapter Introduction
This chapter provides the background and an overview of the debate concerning national health insurance and the issues surrounding the provision of universal health care in the United S Continue Reading...
Gene Rogers who served as the medical director for Sacramento County's Indigent Services program for the most of the last decade who has "waged a long fight against the central California country's practice of providing non-emergency medical care to Continue Reading...
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...
Health Care Reform:
In March 2010, after protracted public and political debate, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was enacted into law by President Barack Obama. This legislation was one of the many health care reforms initiati Continue Reading...
access to health insurance important to our health? What are the consequences for the American health care system when significant numbers of people go without health insurance?
'Not my problem.' It is easy for Americans with health insurance to ta Continue Reading...
Risk Management and Insurance -- New Jersey's Choice No-Fault Insurance
What is no-fault insurance and what states have no-fault insurance?
No-fault insurance is very much what it sounds like it is: when a driver is insured with No-Fault insurance Continue Reading...