Health Care Interdisciplinary Teams
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A 5 page paper that defines and describes what an interdisciplinary team would look like in health care. The paper provides three examples and also comments on the advantages of this type of team to patients, health care providers and health care delivery institutions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Health Care Leadership
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A 9 page paper discussing the changing nature of the health care industry and the attributes needed in health care leadership. The paper discusses issues of third-party payers, whether health care is a right or responsibility and policy considerations. A hospital administrator in the past generally needed concern himself only with costs, income and quality. Current and future considerations include social responsibility, marketing and innovations beyond those of the scientific realm. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Health Care Legalities and Ethics
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A 12 page paper discussing a case in which an emergency room nurse turned away a patient delivered by ambulance. The receiving hospital is a private, for-profit organization, and the patient had no job, no funds and no insurance. The patient was suffering from an apparent broken leg after injuring it playing tennis on a city-owned court. When asked how he intended to pay the hospital’s bill, the patient replied that he would sue the city for the funds. The nurse determined that there were no serious injuries present and that the patient was stable, and then instructed the ambulance crew to transport the patient to a public facility. The paper identifies the facts of the case, then reviews legal, moral and economic issues of the case before concluding with a proposed corporate statement addressing future occurrences. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
Filename: KShlthCareLegal.rtf

Health Care Management: Organizational Structures
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A 6 page paper identifying the structural differences between community hospitals, major teaching hospitals and health maintenance organizations (HMOs). All are primary players in the overall health care industry, but each maintains a different focus in the industry. The purpose here is to identify the goals and performance measures of each type of health care organization. Each of these health care organizations ultimately exist to enable health care delivery, but each maintains a distinct position in the health care industry. Teaching hospitals promote a blend of standard practice and changing technique; community hospitals strive to stay attuned to the needs of the local area. HMOs seek to require both to be fiscally responsible in their treatment of individual patients. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KShlthCareOrgStruc.rtf

Health Care Payment Systems: PPS
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A 6 page paper examining the nature of the PPS health care payment system. Within this system, Medicare essentially sets fee parameters throughout the country. It can be a challenge for care providers to operate within the constraints that Medicare’s accepted fee levels can impose, but care providers have little choice but to operate within the restraints that Medicare requires because of Medicare’s effect on private insurers. The end result is that prices increase for reasons not associated with market conditions at all, and greater numbers of Americans join the ranks of the uninsured as no one – individuals or small businesses – can keep up with price increases in insurance. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Health Care Policy: Mobility Scooters
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A 3 page paper providing a letter to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) requesting that Medicare approve the use of used electric mobility scooters, abandoning the current requirement that patients receive new equipment only. There are many used devices that cannot be sold, and cannot be re-used by Medicare. At an average cost of more than $7,000 each, CMS is ignoring a significant point of cost savings. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: KShlthPolScoot.rtf

Health Care Pricing and Costs
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A 3 page paper discussing health care pricing constraints, the effect of competition and the influence of government. In the current environment, any health care provider is constrained in pricing by government regulation that discourages competition and the lower prices it can bring. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KShlthCarPric.rtf

Health Care Providers: Winners and Losers
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A 39 page paper providing Chapters 2 and 3 of a larger work assessing winners and losers in the health care wars. Care providers and health care plans constantly are at odds, providers wanting to charge increased rates and plans seeking to hold costs steady. The purpose here is to assess which contingent loses more, which is a difficult call. No one – neither care providers, premium-paying employers, care plans nor end consumers is satisfied with the structure of health care as it currently exists. The paper reviews several lawsuits between providers, plans and patients; discusses the origins of the current financial and delivery mess; and reviews proposed solutions by Harvard’s Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen. Bibliography lists 22 sources.
Filename: KShlthCaWinLos.rtf

Health Care Questions
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7 pages in length. The writer discusses various issues in the American health care system via two dozen briefly answered questions. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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Health Care Rationing
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A 7 page consideration of the ethical impacts of health care rationing. The author asserts that a combination of our longer life spans and more and more elaborate and expensive medical technology has resulted in stressed health care resources. Patients clamor for optimized care and the medical profession and our political system struggle with how to provide for the most people without a sacrifice of the quality or equability of care. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Health Care Services Case Study
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A 7 page paper that responds to specific questions about a 75-year-old patient and a health care organization. The essay includes reports and discussions of the services this health care agency provides and relates it to one of Etzioni's approaches to s social problems, Erikson's life stages, and Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system as related to the services provided by this organization.
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Health Care Strategic Management
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A 10 page paper that investigates the relationship of leadership to strategic management in health care facilities. The writer offers an overview of the challenges and problems facing health care institutions today, then explains the differences between strategic planning and strategic management. The characteristics of leadership are discussed and then related to aspects of strategic management. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Health Care Systems in the U.S. and China
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This 3 page paper briefly examines the health care systems in the U.S. and China, and argues that both are overly complex, far too costly and ineffective. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: HVHCUSCh.rtf

Health Care/Canadian Immigrant Women
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An 8 page research paper that offers a literature review that assesses Canadian health care for immigrant women. The writer reports on both quantitative and qualitative studies, focusing on an educational program for immigrant women that proved to be quite successful. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Health Care: Leadership for the Future
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A 10 page paper discussing the systemic change already occurring in health care and its implications for future leadership. Spiraling costs to insurers nearly a generation ago gave rise to the HMO that radically changed the business of health care, a trend that has only continued. Globalization and consolidation are business trends that can be expected to affect health care as well as other types of businesses. Health care leaders of the future are seen to need more business skills than at any other time. Future leaders also may more commonly come from non-medical backgrounds as business changes continue. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Health Care: Questions On Two Articles
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4 pages in length. The writer discusses money's role in driving health care reform and what shifts might take place over the next ten years. No bibliography.
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Health Information Management Software
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A 3 page paper discussing 3M Company’s Clinical Workstation Application component of its 3M™ Care Innovation Expert Applications system for automating patient records. The software is useful in putting all available patient information into the same location and maintaining it in a format that is highly useful for enhancing patient care quality and increasing the organization’s operational efficiency. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
Filename: KSitHlthMgmtSoft.rtf

Health Insurance In California: Inaccessible To Those Who Need It
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5 pages in length. The primary objective of a health care delivery system is "to enable all citizens to access health care services that are cost-effective and that meet certain preestablished standards of quality" (Shi et al, 1998, p. 6); however, this is hardly the case in California where health insurance benefits the rich while leaving the poor to fend for themselves. Employee benefits play a significant role in the extent to which lower class individuals are able to obtain adequate medical care. The primary reason for employers to purchase insurance plans is to provide their workers with the opportunity to afford insurance that would otherwise be far too expensive if purchased as an individual policy. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: TLCHlthI.rtf

Health Issues Following Hurricane Katrina
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A 4 page paper that begins by reporting statistical data regarding the illnesses and infectious diseases that emerged following the hurricane. The numbers were not nearly as severe as health officials and most of the American population were expecting. The writer comments on the reasons. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Health Issues/Poor & Uninsured
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An 8 page research paper that examines the unavailability of access to health care for the poor and the uninsured. Topics covered include the ramifications of poverty on health, as well as the characteristics of uninsured populations. The current availability of health care access is also profiled before concluding by discussing efforts that are being made or have been suggested for reforming the current health care delivery system in the US. Bibliography cites 11 sources.
Filename: khporins.rtf

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) & Regulation
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An 8 page paper. Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) seemed like a good idea in the 1980s as health costs were soaring out of range. Their purpose was to control costs while increasing the quality of health care for Americans. But, like many ideas that sound good at the time, this one failed to meet its purposes. Consumer costs continued to soar and quality health care became an oxymoron. This paper discusses how HMOs control and derail the legislative process intended to protect consumers. The writer provides examples of laws and regulations a few states have adopted and the tactics used by the HMO industry to deter legislation intended to regulate it. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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Health Organization & Policy/Enteric Feeds
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A 10 page research paper that first addresses health care organization and policy, but then focuses on a specific area of nursing care, enteric (also listed as "enteral" in the literature) feeds. The writer discusses how a nurse research team addressed the problems of tube placement aspiration. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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Health Policy: Medicare Reform
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A 9 page paper assessing current health care policy, forces that maintain the status quo and suggestions for improving policy. The bottom line is that ultimately, Medicare controls the course of most of health care in the US, including precipitating much of the cost increase against which all parties appear to be powerless. The paper identifies forces and stakeholders to suggest that Medicare enlist the private sector to assist in designing changes. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSmedHlthPol.rtf

Health Promotion Plans for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs): The Role of Nurses and Health Care Practitioners
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This is a 5 page paper discussing health promotion plan for STDs in small and large communities. Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are a global as well as local concern for health care providers. In addition to guidelines and fact sheets about the prevalence, treatment and symptoms of STDs provided by the World Health Organization, national and local organizations are developing plans for the prevention of STDs through the education of the public provided mainly through health care facilities, centers and providers. Nurses play a dominant role in regards to health promotion in communities as many are involved not only in the larger centers such as hospital settings in which they will come in contact with patients with STDs but nurses also promote education in smaller communities through awareness programs for the schools, local centers and physician practices. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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Health Psychology
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A 5 page paper. Health psychology is a vast field and is, in fact, the umbrella classification for all psychologists who work in the area of health. This essay addresses why this is an important field in today's world by discussing some of the knowledge and insight gained through research. The link between stress, individual behaviors and illness is discussed. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Health Questions and Answers
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A 5 page paper which addresses 7 different health industry quotations with answers in regards to possible questions that might arise. Issues such as physician's involvement in HMOs, ethics, gatekeeping, test rationing, and ethical concerns. Bibliography lists 3 sources. RAhlthq&a.wps
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Health-Promotion Behaviors that Promote Self-Healing
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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.
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Healthcare Administration Leadership
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A 3 page essay that justifies pursuing a doctorate degree in healthcare administration. Doctorate education in healthcare administration is formulated to aid in the creation of highly motivated, advanced healthcare leaders, who can effectively address the challenges of today's healthcare system, as well as shape effective public policy for the needs of the future (Doctor in HA). The challenges facing the U.S. healthcare system, as well as the healthcare systems in all Western, industrialized societies, are formidable. Effective leadership in healthcare administration is a crucial factor in meeting these challenges. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Healthcare And Strategic Management
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A 4 page paper that responds to specific issues. The first is why healthcare organizations need to adopt strategic planning processes. The paper provides an overview of the evolution of strategic management and defines the terms, strategic thinking, strategic momentum, strategic planning and strategic management. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Healthcare as a Scientific Practice
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A 12 page description of health care as a scientific practice. Contends that there is an intimate relationship between modern health care practices and the scientific process. Demonstrates this contention utilizing various examples of the relationship of epidemiology, diagnoses, treatment, and health care recommendations in regard to lifestyle and diet. Emphasizes that from observing and analyzing generalities the health care practitioner is able to discern a specific answer or treatment plan for each condition. Bibliography lists 14 sources.
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Healthcare Delivery Systems in The UK, The US and Yemen
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This 5 page paper considers the way in which healthcare is delivery in these three different countries. IN each case the system can be seen as representative of the social history and conditions within the country as well as the expectations of the population. The paper considers the National Health Service in the UK, Medicaid in the US and the Ministry of Health in Yemen. The bibliography cites 3 sources.
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HEALTHCARE IN MULTICULTURAL ENVIRONMENTS
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This 5-page paper examines the thought that treatment of chronic disease such as hypertension require a different approach for treatment than the standard methods. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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Healthcare Problems in America and the Proposed Solution of 2008 Presidential Candidates Barack Obama and John McCain
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In five pages this paper discusses the problems associated with too many American’s inability to secure healthcare and then assesses the plans offered by the 2008 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, with the pros and cons of each also considered. Six sources (four are articles from The New York Times) are listed in the bibliography.
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HEALTHCARE QUESTIONS AND EXPLANATIONS
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This 3-page paper covers questions dealing with the U.S. healthcare system. Issues address include what is third-party payment, and why healthcare reform is such a hot-button issue. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Healthcare Reimbursement Plans
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A 3 page paper comparing current forms of reimbursement. Several types of reimbursement systems have come into being as healthcare continues to evolve. Three are the Prospective Payment System, Fee for Service and Capitation. Every payment system carries some form of risk. It is left to the provider to determine which form best fits the provider's area of service. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KShlthCrPymtPlan.rtf

Healthy Lifestyles for the Elderly: A Matter of Economic and Societal Necessity
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A 5 page paper presenting the contention that older people use health services to a proportionately greater extent than any other population group and that because of this disproportionate use it is a matter of urgency that we seek ways of preventing illness and promoting healthy lifestyles among our older community members. Provides statistics regarding the current status of our health care system and the demographics influencing that status. Provides examples of the impacts of smoking and nutrition on health and uses these as examples of lifestyle changes which could be implemented to improve the healthcare system. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Hearing Impaired & Aging
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An 8 page research paper investigating the effects of hearing impairment and deafness as an adult. Statistics are provided regarding the percentage of the population that has a hearing loss. The writer discusses the effects hearing loss has on the daily life of individuals and offers ideas for changing the environment to better accommodate the needs of hearing impaired individuals. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Agehear.wps

Heart Disease and Nutrition
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This 5 page report discusses the vital role nutrition plays in the development and the prevention of heart disease. Even a genetic predisposition toward coronary problems may be managed through proper exercise and nutrition. Often, the primary issues are ones of understanding and motivation. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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HEART DISEASE IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY
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This 10 page paper discusses the trends in heart disease among young adults and makes predictions for the future. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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Heart Disease News Letter
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A 3 page research paper that discusses the history, statistics, causes, and symptoms of coronary heart disease. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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