Introduction Michael Moore is the director known for his fierce criticism of the American way of living and of the governmental and corporative interests that are valued much more than the lives and wellbeing of ordinary citizens of the United States. “Sicko”, the latest film by Moore (2007) is a...
Topic: Health
Words: 1371
Pages: 5
Introduction Several countries throughout the world are working to decriminalize or legalize less harmful drugs such as cannabis (marijuana). It has been suggested, and in some cases demonstrated, that legalizing or at least decriminalizing marijuana can help to reduce violent crimes and significantly decrease the number of people incarcerated for...
Topic: Marijuana
Words: 1551
Pages: 5
Introduction Whether contracted in the early fetal development stage or inherited, autism is a disorder which affects cognitive brain functions thus impeding a person’s ability to communicate effectively. The disorder distorts not only how people perceive sensory information but how the brain processes it as well. Cause Autism and other...
Topic: Autism
Words: 913
Pages: 4
“Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating” ~ Bob Filner The advent of the new century has bought many social problems along with itself; this is mainly due to the changes that came in the traditional way...
Topic: Childhood Obesity
Words: 1482
Pages: 5
Introduction While discussing about automation in pharmacies, the duties of a pharmacist come to the fore. The pharmacist may be a retailer or the one attached to any hospital. In both the cases, they store and dispense drugs to inpatients and outpatients. In every case, the pharmacist has to maintain...
Topic: Organizational Change
Words: 2200
Pages: 8
Introduction The studies in occupational therapy in most points serve as the guarantee for would-be therapists. In this respect, the significance of supporting a knowledge base along with the experience of mature specialists in this sphere is of great significance. The research in the paper is dedicated to the problem...
Topic: Cancer
Words: 3036
Pages: 11
Obesity is a disease that leads to other killer diseases. America must face it as a dangerous foe in the twenty-first century. These are facts and no exaggeration. What are the other facts? America is an advanced nation, a leader of the world, economically, politically, and as a nation it...
Topic: Obesity
Words: 3811
Pages: 14
Introduction Cancer treatment is the least studied field that arises numerous ambiguities and requires a more sophisticated approach in studying. There is still no unanimous opinion among the scholars and therapists towards what approach to use in cancer therapy and what are the reasons of cancer. The racial, ethnic, and...
Topic: Breast Cancer
Words: 920
Pages: 3
Background information Veterans Affairs Healthcare is considered to be an operating system uniting about 153 medical centers, 207 Veteran Centers, and 882 community-based outpatient and ambulatory clinics. The system unites about 92 comprehensive programs of home-based care, aimed at medical services provided to eligible veterans. The principal facilities of the...
Topic: Health
Words: 1310
Pages: 5
Where is Medicine Going? Like most other professional fields, medicine is also moving towards more and more technological advancement. Starting out from basic medical equipment, science and technology have caused major breakthroughs in the field of medicine. Apart from the breakthroughs that are of common knowledge to people, such as...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1117
Pages: 4
Introduction The Healthcare system is one of the most important facilities in society. Being the marketing representative at a local hospital, the Veterans Affairs Healthcare System is the main focus of the activity provided. Act as the marketing representative, the statistical data should be analyzed to consider whether the services...
Topic: Health
Words: 1114
Pages: 4
Introduction Marketing is one of the most important elements for the success of a firm. There are various strategies that enable a firm to conduct effective marketing. Some of these strategies relate to positioning and differentiation. In marketing effective positioning is one of the strategies that firms use to attain...
Topic: Hospital
Words: 1785
Pages: 6
Introduction Even though we now live in the 21st century, the issue of legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PSA) continues to stir public controversy in many Western countries, as if Christian moralists that seriously believe in the concept of life’s sanctity, were still in a position of designing these countries’ socio-political policies....
Topic: Suicide
Words: 1263
Pages: 3
Outline of the literature review This literature review tries to make an analysis of the previous studies about the legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide. Three studies are reviewed and these resources are evaluated. The extent to which the review could affect the researcher is also included. Introduction Legalizing physician-assisted suicide for...
Topic: Suicide
Words: 1058
Pages: 3
Introduction The health care system in the United States has recently become immensely commercialized and now it is functioning according to the same principles of the market economy as any other industry. This paper aims to examine current trends and practices in health care marketing, namely advertising, product development, pricing,...
Topic: Health
Words: 779
Pages: 3
Cancer in human bodies is associated with the growth and multiplication of body cells without control. This continual growth usually takes invasion into another neighboring cell hence appearing as body tumors. The tumors are cancerous when they result in distortion of bodily functions. However, cancer can also be caused by...
Topic: Cancer
Words: 511
Pages: 2
It is a popular topic nowadays, the issue of obesity among the youth of America. There is so much interest regarding this topic because it concerns the health and well-being of many people, most especially the young. They are the future of this country and everything must be done to...
Topic: Obesity
Words: 1367
Pages: 4
Idea 1 The main concept of the web Health Service is the ability to consult people on the matters of health care remotely, using the capabilities and opportunities of World Wide Web. The main aim of such services will be to give recommendations, preserve the privacy of the visitors, consult...
Topic: Health
Words: 794
Pages: 3
The passage outlined below deals with the experience of people with mental illness. It especially studies, weighs researches, and endeavors deriving conclusions about self-stigma, also called by many researchers as ‘discrimination’. People of different countries with different cultures participated in the various group discussions carried out by experts of mental...
Topic: Illness
Words: 1073
Pages: 3
Youths love music whether gospel or secular. It is noted that American young people spend about four to five hours each day watching and listening to music. This is more time than the youths spend in the company of their friends. Music is highly valued by adolescents and older youths...
Topic: AIDS
Words: 939
Pages: 3
The healthcare approach in the United States needs reformation. It is an obvious and deep problem, which seems to be still far from solutions. Furthermore, the government makes attempts to improve situation in healthcare, but in practice the practical results leave much to be desired. In this respect, programs which...
Topic: Health
Words: 1416
Pages: 5
Introduction The entire health care system of America is broken and its decline was accelerated by inflation and economic instability in America. This paper presents how the broken health care system affects the American people. It affects children, adult, youth, women and retirees. American health care system is operated by...
Topic: Health
Words: 2153
Pages: 7
In the book, One Nation, Insured, Quadagno reveals the shortcomings of the medical care system in the country that is heavily regulated by the legislature thus emphasizing that America is the only country that has serious problems with insurance coverage. The writer also discovers the legal problems where Congress failed...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 2040
Pages: 7
Introduction Cancer is a much dreaded medical condition. The words death and cancer are sometimes closely associated with each other. Although mankind has progressed to a point that he can cure a very sick person dying of cancer, in many cases cancer can be a death sentence that comes too...
Topic: Cancer
Words: 1899
Pages: 6
Introduction Scientific evidence suggests that persons with HIV/AIDS, who are having reduced immunity against infection, are susceptible to other infectious diseases. In this context an attempt is made to examine corollary of two diseases, such as malaria and HIV/AIDS: one which occurs naturally and extensively in tropical and subtropical regions...
Topic: Infection
Words: 2931
Pages: 4
The problems of trauma and loss, resulted from all levels of conflict, can be seen as a common theme, specifically in the context of the historical and political events of the 20th and 21st century. The apparent need in dealing with traumas and losses, in terms of providing psychological care...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 587
Pages: 2
Introduction Autism, a pervasive development disorder that appears early in life and involves a lack of many basic skills is a grave matter of concern in the health care field. The prevalence of Autism among children is high with six in a thousand kids being autistic. If diagnosed early such...
Topic: Autism
Words: 948
Pages: 3
Introduction With the millennium having clocked nine years old, leaders from different nations have experienced a lot of hardships over this period. The business world has also not been spared the ordeal with scandals such as WorldCom being witnessed. Local governments have seen adjudicators and other law enforcers convicted for...
Topic: Biomedicine
Words: 1120
Pages: 4
Introduction Leading science in the wrong direction can be caused by different aspects. The fraud, as an important cause, can be an aspect, but omitting the bad intention factor, the science can be sometimes directed by ideas that are directly implemented into practice, driven by forces that have their roots...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1080
Pages: 4
Abstract The frontal lobe is the area of the brain of any mammal, which is considered to be the most important brain region in human beings. The frontal lobe is responsible for creative thinking, decision making, categorizing behavior, and other self-expressing activities. The abuse of alcohol is proved by scholars...
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 2190
Pages: 8
AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome), the deadly disease caused by HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) has plagued the Sub-Saharan African countries more than any other region in the world. From the statistical reports of 2006, it was found that almost two-thirds of the total HIV infected population of the world and three-fourth...
Topic: AIDS
Words: 1688
Pages: 6
Introduction To begin with, it is necessary to mention that the issue of shape and form perception is one of the most interesting issues of human vision and perception psychology. Originally, the human eyes see what they are shown, and nothing more, however, our imagination, memory, and fantasy often add...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1090
Pages: 4
Introduction The recent outbreak of H1N1 began on April 13 2009 in Mexico when a new strain of H1N1 influenza A was reported. Within a short period of time, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared a pandemic alert that changed from level 3 to level 6. Until the first week...
Topic: Flu
Words: 1243
Pages: 6
The Case for PAS About 3% of all the patients in the United States cannot have their pain or illnesses relieved, and this calls for an urgent measure to rescue them. The debate over physician-assisted suicide (PAS) has largely dwelt on the morality surrounding it and the advantages and disadvantages...
Topic: Suicide
Words: 1777
Pages: 6
Introduction There are times at which an individual needs special care in our daily lives in order to live as long as he can. People reach a stage when they become old and require special care. These individuals also include people suffering from cognitive impairment either in their early age...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 7496
Pages: 28
Abstract Lou Gehrig’s disease {familial or sporadic} is a neuromuscular disorder that targets the upper and lowers motor neurons. There are no specific causes, though viruses, neurotoxins and others are suspected. Symptoms begin with unsteady gait and speech difficulty, lead to more serious flexion and hypotonia before proceeding to paralysis...
Topic: Disease
Words: 1989
Pages: 5
Pregnancy is a wonderful conversion of a lady to the form of a mother. It is the phase between the formation of the fetus in the womb and the delivery. The first period of pregnancy is called the first trimester of pregnancy and it is the time most of the...
Topic: Pregnancy
Words: 644
Pages: 2
Introduction Since the first tube baby was born in 1978 there has been a lively debate about the ethics of assisting Mother Nature. The current Pope, Benedict XVI has opposed any scientific procedure, including genetic engineering, in vitro fertilization and diagnostic tests to see if babies have disabilities, because these...
Topic: Genetics
Words: 742
Pages: 2
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is believed to be the virus that causes Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Since it was first recognized in 1981 the virus has spread throughout the world, sparing no one – irrespective of race, gender, age or socio-economic status (CDC, 2008). Today HIV/AIDS pandemic proceeds to impact...
Topic: Infection
Words: 2042
Pages: 7
Introduction Nurses are skilled and trained professionals who have the duty of caring for the sick and the frail. In addition to helping patients in matters of healthy wellness, they also perform procedures and treatment but only as prescribed by doctors or their assistants (Quan, 2006). Nurses are very important...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 2463
Pages: 6
The social work group forms for the purpose of rehabilitating HIV patients under the supervision of The National Health Service, one of the popularized social service and health care groups in England. The members of the social work group attempt to relieve and block hardships and sufferings. The journal article...
Topic: Health
Words: 995
Pages: 3
Introduction Radiation therapy, more commonly known as radiotherapy, is the application of radiation as a mode of treating cancer, according to Dobbs et al. (1999). As a curative therapy, the method promotes survival and can eventually cure. As a palliative medication, the therapy can not offer cure, but it controls...
Topic: Therapy
Words: 2050
Pages: 7
There has been a steady increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the United States, and many political activities related to tackling obesity policy has been taking place within state legislators. Screening body mass index (BMI) at school is one of the strategies to address childhood obesity, and...
Topic: Obesity
Words: 2164
Pages: 5
Blood for Sale In the article “Blood for Sale”, the author makes a case that the sale of blood in a commercial market has drastic repercussions for both the donor and the receiver. The author’s position on the issue is made clear by starting the article with a brief history...
Topic: Drugs
Words: 770
Pages: 1
Syphilis is a serious sexually transmitted disease. The prevention of syphilis starts with safe sexual relations. The primary danger related to syphilis is that sores of syphilis are open, visible, and infectious during the active stages of infection. Moreover, any contact with infectious so repreventing tissues, or body fluids may...
Topic: STDs
Words: 550
Pages: 2
Introduction, Definition of Terms, and Purpose Statement Obesity is a significant issue in many developed countries, including the United States. Obesity is defined as a health condition when a person has large amounts of excess fat (Brazier). This issue has become more prevalent in recent decades due to the high...
Topic: Obesity
Words: 706
Pages: 3
Introduction Every individual experiences depression at some point of time. There can be several reasons associated with depression. In fact, it can be said that it is a part of life. However when depression sustains for a prolonged period of time there may be a more serious problem. It is...
Topic: Alzheimer’s Disease
Words: 1222
Pages: 5
Introduction Electronic medical records are medical records in a digital format, which have many advantages over conventional paper-based records. This paper compares three different EMRs; ABELMed PM-EMR, Amazing Charts, and e-MDs Chart. ABELMed PM-EMR is both easy to learn and use. During automating daily tasks, it is flexible enough to...
Topic: Brand
Words: 458
Pages: 2
Introduction Diabetes, a disease which alters the body’s capability to utilize glucose effectively, plays a significant role in the deaths of more than 200,000 Americans each year, six times the number in 1950. Diabetes is the fifth deadliest disease in the United States, and it has no cure. The total...
Topic: Diabetes
Words: 1293
Pages: 4
Abstract This paper is intended to find out that the restorative material known as the Dental Amalgam has caused poisonous or similar disorders to the human body. The dental amalgam is substance which is used as restorative fillings in the tooth cavities of which large or half or more than...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 2775
Pages: 9
Physical therapists provide services and aid to patients including accident victims and diseased or injured individuals, to restore and enhance the functioning and the mobility of their body organs with the crucial aim of preventing disabilities of a permanent nature that have resulted from disease or injury (U.S. Department of...
Topic: Profession
Words: 271
Pages: 2
Formulation of the Problem The main issue lies in the procedures of standardization for the programmers who work with EMRs’ implementation. During the process of setting the code, the IT team was confused by the number of variables’ variations. Furthermore, multiple ones can exist even for a single measure like...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 559
Pages: 2
Different cells make up the body and they divide and also multiply in orderly way. The older cells are replaced by new ones. If there is a case of cancer, there are some cells inside the body that have already changed in function and appearance. These cells divide and grow...
Topic: Cancer
Words: 322
Pages: 1
Introduction Uncompensated health care is any medical attention and treatment given to a patient by a health care/dental professional, hospital or medic without any payments by the government, non governmental organization or the patient (Mosby’s 2008, Dental Dictionary, 2nd edition).The care provided is considered voluntary work of the physician, hospital,...
Topic: Health
Words: 3400
Pages: 12
Discussion When we look at Western civilization as socio-cultural phenomenon, it will appear that, throughout its history, religion (particularly Christianity) always acted as counter-productive factor of cultural and scientific progress, closely associated this civilization. That is – religion always strived to erect obstacles, on the way of science broadening people’s...
Topic: Stem Cell
Words: 1596
Pages: 5
Introduction The world is full of fantasies and every one wants to be a part of these fantasies. There are some factors involved which keep a person active and smart. Health is a state of physical activeness which keeps a person mentally and physically fit. According to the world health...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 6878
Pages: 25
Introduction Drug use by injection is the cause for approximately half of all new hepatitis C and one-third of all new AIDS cases in the United States each year. The implementation of clean needle exchange programs has been encouraged by numerous health officials as a method of reducing the infection...
Topic: AIDS
Words: 2093
Pages: 6
Introduction The Pediatric Department in a large outpatient clinic is responsible for diagnosing, treating, and helping to prevent diseases or injuries of children. The Executive Director of the clinic stated that staff should not take time away from their patient care roles to attend the manager’s monthly training session, which...
Topic: Conflict
Words: 347
Pages: 1
Introduction Healthcare represents a unique field of economy based on theoretical concepts and principles. It is considered that economics is a values-neutral science in which no judgment or value is placed on the theory or how the system works. Thus, the case of healthcare shows that this statement is not...
Topic: Finance
Words: 946
Pages: 3
Experience In my professional life, I have experienced several strategy implementations that were made to improve care quality, patient outcomes, or staff satisfaction. Information Technology (IT) integration in primary care is one of the most successful strategies that I guided while introducing an electronic billing system for patients. As a...
Topic: Health
Words: 839
Pages: 3
The health care plan proposed by Barrack Obama has three core elements. Firstly, it seeks to provide affordable and portable health to the average American. Secondly, it is expected to stem the rising health care costs, ultimately saving the average household about 2,500 dollars a year. Thirdly, it will have...
Topic: American Politics
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Pages: 2
Introduction Oral manifestations are the first signs of an underlying systemic illness like HIV/AIDS (Patel and Glick, 2005, p. 236). Oral health is an essential constituent of overall health and well being in a patient (Patel and Glick, 2005, p. 223). A patient with HIV is immunocompromised with many common...
Topic: AIDS
Words: 2188
Pages: 7
The present description is about a consultation with a woman named Debbie, who has inquired about having the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccination. Ms.Debbie has provided valuable information as revealed from her decisions; and the main objective of this article is to highlight the key aspects of this consultation and...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1223
Pages: 4
Abstract In the web of complex health care system, patient safety is one of the core components of quality health care, because medical errors not only cost human lives but cost trust in health care system also. Accountability for patient safety and quality is the current trend in health care...
Topic: Health
Words: 3451
Pages: 12
Introduction Shortly after the introduction of the parent antibiotic penicillin to clinical practice, a report came for bacteria becoming insensitive. These were the earliest reports of bacterial resistance to antibiotics. These reports were not considered significant as lab studies displayed that such resistance can be overcome by increasing the dose....
Topic: Antibiotic
Words: 1738
Pages: 4
Introduction The topic for my practicum project plan is “Incorporating effective team collaboration/coordination to improve patient safety.” I selected this topic because, throughout my practicum experience, I observed poor communication among interdisciplinary team members. Johnson, Quinlan, and Marsh (2018) say that poor communication in the healthcare setting may negatively affect...
Topic: Health
Words: 1422
Pages: 5
Introduction Methamphetamine was synthesized in 1919 by Ogata, a Japanese scientist. In the 1930s, Temmler Werke’s pharmacists in Berlin developed the stimulant called Pervitin. Since 1938, the substance has been used systematically and in large doses, both in the army and defense industry: tablets of Pervitin were officially included in...
Topic: Addiction
Words: 1392
Pages: 5
Surgical site infections are common complications caused by surgical interventions, where a patient gets infected due to the surgical openings and weakened immune system. However, the main reason why such a clinical question exists is the fact that there is a difference in rates of surgical site infection occurrence between...
Topic: Infection
Words: 1399
Pages: 5
Electromyography (EMG) involves the documentation of the electrical activity of muscle tissue and relaying it as a graphical representation or an audible signal. When muscles contract, the ensuing action potentials are transmitted from the brain to the motor unit, thereby causing the contraction of muscle fibers (Ertl, Kruse, & Tilp,...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 320
Pages: 2
Introduction In this paper, the author discusses a patient educational tool for hypertension in an adult with an aim of analyzing it for use in providing patient education to the specific audience in this case- grown-up. The paper explains what a patient educational tool is, the specific audience for which...
Topic: Diet
Words: 1438
Pages: 5
Introduction The problem of adolescent obesity is gaining more and more attention as the adverse impact of the health condition affects millions worldwide and in the United States in particular. The obesity epidemic is associated not only with the decreased quality of life of those diagnosed with the condition but...
Topic: Obesity
Words: 2204
Pages: 8
Introduction The ability of a healthcare organization to implement innovative practices depends greatly on its staff, especially the managerial part. Engle et al. (2017) attach great importance to middle managers since they serve as intermediaries between senior managers and nursing personnel. Researchers have analyzed the behavior of a number of...
Topic: Health
Words: 926
Pages: 3
Introduction Medication adherence remains a critical issue throughout the care delivery process. In the field of geriatrics, both patients and caregivers encounter numerous challenges that affect the targeted outcomes. When the elderly fail to take their drugs correctly or follow presented advice, chances are high they will be unable to...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 562
Pages: 2
The greatest thinkers have made numerous attempts to give comprehensive definitions to the terms “good” and “bad.” In their works on moral principles and the essence of proper actions, John Mill and Jeremy Bentham defend the ideas of classical utilitarianism and focus on outcomes as the measure of appropriateness. This...
Topic: Ebola
Words: 1489
Pages: 5
Palliative care is given to those who are nearing the last days of their lives when providing the best quality for remaining life is more significant than prolonging a miserable life (National Ethics Committee, 2007). Sometimes even aggressive high quality palliative care does not relieve them of symptoms like vomiting,...
Topic: Palliative Care
Words: 2908
Pages: 8
Abstract This concept analysis paper dwells upon the concept of pharmacogenetics that is the study of people’s genetically determined responses to some drugs. Pharmacogenetics is mainly employed when treating cancer, cardiovascular, and mental disorders, as well as managing pain. The primary use of these tests aims at the provision of...
Topic: Pharmacy
Words: 1403
Pages: 5
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a complex developmental condition that affects the way a person communicates and socializes. In 1943, Leo Kanner was the first psychiatrist who coined the term “infantile autism” to explain children’s obsession with objects and resistance to change (Baron-Cohen, 2015). The contributions of Steve Silberman and...
Topic: Anxiety
Words: 5264
Pages: 20
Abstract Diuretics and drugs that increase cardiac muscle strength (digitalis) are the main drug treatment for congestive heart failure. There are few randomized clinical trials that show diuretic treatment affects mortality rates of patients with congestive heart failure. Clinical experience shows their importance, however close monitoring is essential to avoid...
Topic: Heart Disease
Words: 1025
Pages: 3
Introduction Similar to adults, children also encounter many mental health challenges. According to the latest statistics, almost 20% of youth experience some mental health-related problems and have a mental, behavioral, or developmental disorder (MBDD) (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [CDC], 2019; Delaney, Burke, DeSocio, Greenberg, & Sharp, 2018). Nonetheless,...
Topic: Health
Words: 1953
Pages: 7
Polycystic Kidney Diseases (PKD) refers to an inherited disease of, but not limited to the kidney. It leads to the development of sacs that contain some fluids, otherwise called cysts, in the kidney. These sacs cause considerable pain to the patient or just get infected altogether. As these cysts continue...
Topic: Disease
Words: 2319
Pages: 8
Patient-centered clinics emerged because of the necessity to reform the traditional medical system, which includes such stereotypes as medical cards, telephone communication, queue visits, and several other features. According to Brown and Park (2014), a patient-centered clinic is explained as an institution where “a small group of primary care and...
Topic: Health
Words: 312
Pages: 1
Introduction In the practice of nursing or any field in medicine, it is very difficult to follow a single principle due to the involvement of multiple variables that need to be considered. Through the practice of the nursing profession, four major principles serve as a guide that applies to most...
Topic: Ethical Dilemma
Words: 1748
Pages: 6
Introduction The shift of all the mentally ill criminals from the infamous institutions which resemble warehouses to prisons can be traced back to the 1950s. This decision was the result of deinstitutionalization in US. This was made in order to close the institutions (warehouses) in which these mentally ill people...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1654
Pages: 6
Introduction The U.S. healthcare shows clear tendencies to head toward rewarding value. Recent changes in legislation (the Affordable Care Act) have drawn attention to value-based purchasing (VBP) programs. The present case study evaluates VBP in Medicare on the example of the PROMETHEUS reform and some other successfully applied programs. The...
Topic: Health
Words: 1110
Pages: 4
Common Myths and Barriers Regarding Breast Feeding Breastfeeding guidelines are crucial for supporting mothers and their newborn infants. Due to the presence and strong influence of breastfeeding myths in numerous communities, a DNP has to encourage patient education to prevent the instances that involve health issues in mothers and infants....
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 655
Pages: 2
The outcomes were measured before the beginning of the treatment (Day 0) and on Day 5 of treatment. Table 1 presents the initial findings, whether Table 2 contains the results collected on Day 5. The outcomes measured as part of the study include tear production based on Schirmer’s tear test...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 408
Pages: 1
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus, with AIDS being its most advanced form – the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. This type of sickness is relatively new, having been first discovered in African chimpanzees in the 1930s, allegedly transferring to humans through blood contact. It became a pandemic in the USA during...
Topic: AIDS
Words: 1988
Pages: 8
The management of HIV remains one of the key priorities of modern healthcare since AIDS as a likely outcome of HIV is still incurable. Therefore, studying the factors that aggravate the problem and create obstacles for managing the disorder is essential to the improvement of patients’ health status, preventing HIV...
Topic: Homelessness
Words: 1104
Pages: 4
Adolescent pregnancy may be defined as teenage becoming pregnant. The term is usually used to refer to young girls aged between the ages of thirteen and nineteen becoming pregnant and especially out of wedlock. It may also refer to women who have not reached lawful adulthood becoming pregnant (Spitz 992)....
Topic: Pregnancy
Words: 1166
Pages: 4
The paper aims to assess the relationship between non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) or type-2 diabetes and hypothyroidism in the ethnic population in Texas, USA. In the first part, as no record is available, a working evaluation was done on the prevalence of the two endocrine disorders in outpatients in Texas...
Topic: Texas
Words: 834
Pages: 3
Policies adopted by employers to encourage or discourage enrollment in employer-sponsored health plans. The two kinds of policies are (i) regarding eligibility and (ii) the take-up rate. It is seen that in health coverage offering firms, 14% of employees worked for firms that offered cashback payments in the event the...
Topic: Health
Words: 483
Pages: 2
Introduction Organ transplantation is a medical procedure in which a donor gives up an organ for transplantation into the body of a recipient with the purpose of substituting a damaged or missing organ. The procedure is a significant medical advancement that has gained traction in recent years for both positive...
Topic: Alcohol
Words: 1539
Pages: 5
Introduction Human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, and continued HPV infection can cause cervical cancer in women, anal cancer, genital cancer, and genital warts in both men and women. First epidemiological data, derived from the U.S National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey,...
Topic: Safety
Words: 1903
Pages: 5
Introduction The benefits to society by the introduction of new medical technologies have been considerable. For example, the introduction of vaccines and antibiotics has significantly improved the well-being of people all over the globe. The science of stem cell treatments, potentially as or more significant than these other innovations, is...
Topic: Stem Cell
Words: 1446
Pages: 5
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is more than just arthritis. Indeed, many doctors call it “rheumatoid disease” to emphasize the widespread nature of this process. The term rheumatoid arthritis is trying awkwardly to say the same thing; rheumat refers to the stiffness, body aching, and fatigue that are often termed “rheumatism.” “Rheumatoid”...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 1557
Pages: 3
A community newsletter was the most preferable media. From the beginning of the existence of human beings, they have always preferred to form and live in communities. While dwelling as a community, they can be able to learn collectively and accumulate their knowledge and new ideas, information, and rules into...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 862
Pages: 3
Introduction The purpose of healthcare organizations is to provide patients with highly qualified medical care. Clinical practice is based on a systematic review of evidence and includes recommendations for proper organizing and optimizing the process of work. Nowadays, there is a tendency to modernize the implementation of medical services and...
Topic: Corporation
Words: 350
Pages: 1
Hospital services serve as indispensable tools in providing care to patients. The staff employed may play a prominent role in executing diverse roles during an emergency, intensive care, long term pre and post operative conditions or illnesses. In recent years, patient safety has become a serious concern. Investigations have revealed...
Topic: Nursing
Words: 1680
Pages: 5
The United States of America is famous for different sports organizations conducive to arranging for the protection and strengthening of the health of a community. They can be national, regional and local. The most important and well-known organizations are SEC (the Southeastern Conference) and ACC (the Atlantic Coast Conference). The...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 581
Pages: 2
Purpose The issue of the impact of prenatal tobacco exposure, which refers to maternal smoking during pregnancy, on child health and development is still highly urgent and requires an appropriate governmental response. Researchers note that among “women who gave birth in Australia in 2012, 12% reported smoking during the first...
Topic: Child Development
Words: 1304
Pages: 6
Mifepristone was initially developed during the early 1980s at the French pharmaceutical company Roussel Uclaf. (Creinin MD. Medical abortion regimens: historical context and overview. Am J Obstet Gynecol. 2000; 183: S3-S9.) Mifepristone is a synthetic steroid, an anti-progestin that obstructs the action of progesterone (a hormone necessary to maintain a...
Topic: Drugs
Words: 858
Pages: 2
Introduction Aggressive behaviour exhibited by patients with mental illness is a major occupational challenge and hazard faced by mental health nurses. (Beech & Leather 2006). On the one hand, such behaviour puts nurses under extreme stress; on the other hand, it grossly undermines the quality of care in many instances...
Topic: Health & Medicine
Words: 2480
Pages: 10