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This 5 page paper discusses the U.S. health care system, why it needs reform and what those reforms might be. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A 3 page paper that discusses how scarce health resources are allocated in the U.S. Are they allocated according to the patient’s ability to contribute to the society? The writer discusses this issue. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

6 pages in length. This paper discusses the right of the patient to direct his or her medical care and health outcome, known as patient autonomy, and the right of society to control and allocate "limited resources", known as distributive justice, will certainly collide. In an ideal world, or in an egalitarian society, all individuals would have access to ...

This 3-page paper focuses on questions concerning healthcare, finance and accounting. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

6 pages in length. Health care in the United States has long suffered the indignities of contempt from the very people it is designed to protect. However, these recipients claim that the health care system has not lived up to the promises of adequate protection based upon the significantly inequitable manner by which the ...

A 3 page research paper that examines health care systems in the countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark. These publicly owned systems are evaluated as to their strengths and weaknesses. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 6 page paper reviewing economic influences on home health, including increasing fuel costs and the ongoing nursing shortage. The healthcare industry is hampered by its history of trying to operate separate from economic realities and laws, creating several hurdles that it will need to negotiate simultaneously. Bibliography lists 7 sources.

A 4 page paper that begins with data regarding the incidence of infections in American hospitals each year. The essay reviews four articles on this topic, reporting the strategies to prevent infections. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

Tobacco and Health

  • 6 page paper

This 6 page paper examines the latest research on cigarette smoking. Bibliography lists 4 sources.

This 5-page paper discusses complementary and alternative medicine therapies and their use among women. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 3 page paper that discusses specific policy issues. The first focuses on the role of special interest groups in policy making with comments about the ADA, Balanced Budget and Self-Determination Acts; the second comments on democrats vs. republicans on the health care reform policy and the last identifies health policy issues in Texas. Bibliography ...

This 3-page paper discusses the ethical medical issue concerning the right to die. Bibliography lists 1 source.

An 8 page paper discussing current changes in the health care industry in light of the perspective of Odin Anderson, a sociologist who examined the US health care industry as it existed in the late 1920s to analyze the "turning" of health care in the United States in the early years of the 20th century, ...

A 3 page review of the 2004 article by author Michael O’Donnell. O’Donnell summarizes what is known about the value of self-healing behavior and emphasizes that additional research is needed in regard to its impact on acute and chronic disease. No additional sources are listed.

A 5 page paper. Health care is delivered by a team of professionals with many supporting professionals behind the scenes. Each of these groups represents a stakeholder group. This essay will discuss several groups of stakeholders in a health care institution. It will identify their primary focus and interest. What each group contributes to ...

An 11 page paper that discusses how Canada's national health care system came about and what is happening now, including how it is failing to serve all Canadians and the dangers and risks associated with long wait times and unequal care between and among the provinces and territories. The writer reports innovations and programs ...

Health Care in Hawaii

  • 16 page paper

A 16 page paper discussing health care in "the health state." It ranks at the top or bottom of all national lists, and in all categories aside from those of cost, its position is determined by which position can be considered as being the most favorable. As example, Hawaii is first in average life span, 48th ...

In six pages this paper examines the increasing problem of nosocomial infections as a major cause of patient death and argues that healthcare systems need to employ certain measures to ensure that these oftentimes needless deaths can be averted. Eight sources are listed in the bibliography.

A 4 page overview of oxygen therapy in the home. The author discusses varying patient needs and the consequent variance that exist in therapeutic oversight. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 7 page paper discussing the rationale for including a commissioning authority throughout the design and construction phases of a new health care facility. The health care facility that waits until the end of construction to begin commissioning activities has waited far too late into the project. Though commissioning activities culminate with approval ...

A 7 page paper answering 4 questions about the current health care infrastructure; how managed care came to increase costs rather than reduce them; what alternative measures might be used to effect change; and what obstacles such measures might encounter. Answers to these questions focus on the medical community’s long-standing rejection of any alternative ...

This 4 page paper provides an overview of the issue of health care reform, especially in relation to the slow process of incremental change that has been used in the United States. Comparisons are made between the United States and the United Kingdom. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

This 4-page paper answers various questions as they pertain to marketing and health care. The questions include whether marketing is meant to deceive and parameters of marketing under HIPAA. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

This 6-page paper focuses on decisions made by insurance company Castor Collins. Bibliography lists 3 sources.

A 5 page paper discussing New York's provision for ensuring that medically incompetent individuals' wishes are followed in issues of health care when they are unable to communicate those wishes themselves. The law was enacted in 1991, in direct response to the US Supreme Court's ruling on the Nancy Cruzan case, that of a Missouri woman whose parents ...

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