Essays and Research Papers on Health Care

This 100 page paper considers the use of functional analysis and assessment to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of treatment in an outpatient setting. In particular, this paper looks at the pediatric rehabilitation setting and considers the use of a functional analysis and assessment protocol as a component of the planning for patient treatment. ...

An Overview of Somatropin, Its Relation to the Endocrine System and Role in Human Development and Health : A 5 page overview of the importance of growth hormone in the human body. Contends that growth hormone can have a tremendous impact on both children and adults. It can manifest itself in both ...

This 10 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding the use of telemedicine and the impacts that this emerging service focus has on improving healthcare in rural communities. This paper assesses 10 references selected on the topic and outlines their utility for a study on this subject. Bibliography lists 10 ...

This 10 page paper considers three central organizational concepts, leadership, change and conflict. This paper then goes on to consider the implications for relationships/interrelationships in the organizational setting. This paper provides an overview of the current literature and reflects on the implications in a healthcare environment. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 9 page discussion of pregnancy and birth outcome in relation to preterm labor, preterm delivery and low birthweight babies. Emphasizes that pregnancy and birth outcome are obviously associated with a variety of factors other than the presence or absence of prenatal care alone. These factors include family structure, economic and racial classification, ...

A 3 page paper which presents an overview of adequate care for a patient who is receiving enteral feeding. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which presents a critical care set-up for relatives of patient's in critical care. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

A 3 page paper which presents a critical analysis of competently caring for a patient who is deteriorating and whose blood pressure is dropping following bypass surgery. Bibliography lists 2 sources.

16 pages in length. With the ongoing technological advancements in the medical field, it is difficult to believe that infant mortality is still so prevalent in today's society. However, it is this very technology that provides the opportunity to avert infant death that is being overlooked as a means by which to address the ...

This 5 page paper considers the way in which language skills are developed in children with Downs Syndrome and how this differs from 'normal' development. The paper recognised the potential hearing problems, but goes on to consider the processing problems and their manifestation along with some of the positive results that have been obtained when ...

5 pages. Prospective memory has been acknowledged by several authors to be the aspect of memory that most affects the ability to function in daily life, but has been rarely studied. An investigation into this topic in regard to this memory and brain injury will address areas of cognitive rehabilitation that are frequently lacking. Bibliography lists 4 sources. ...

This 5 page paper presents biographical information as well as details about her well known Human Becoming Theory. Strengths and weaknesses of the theory are discussed. Bibliography lists 10 sources.

A 5 page paper that provides a general overview of family-centered care, including the principles and elements on which it is based as well as the principles for collaboration between and among professionals. A brief discussion of how this model relates to children with special needs is included. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

This 6 page paper provides an overview of the relationship between exposure to the sun and the development of skin cancer. Bibliography lists 6 sources.

A 4 page statement written from the perspective of an individual pursuing certification as a physicians assistant. Notes that even a brief review of the licensing situation in the medical profession it becomes obvious that without professional certification and/or licensing an individual can do little in terms of patient care in any type of ...

A five page paper which looks at the issues surrounding compliance of care in the treatment regimes of adolescent diabetics and ways in which they can be encouraged to manage their own medication programs. Bibliography lists 16 sources

A 5 page paper arguing that access to health care is a right, rather than a privilege. There are those who maintain that health care is no more a right than is the "right" to drive fast cars; far more subscribe to the view that access to health care is a basic right of all people. ...

6 pages in length. So what exactly are Medical Savings Accounts? They are personal savings accounts that are required to be combined with high-deductible health insurance. The account holders typically use their MSA funds to pay small and routine health care bills, and then rely on their health insurance to pay for more costly ones. Under ...

An 8 page discussion of the importance of emergency medical services in saving lives. Contends that emergency medical services are the first line of defense against death. Emphasizes the importance of these services in all types of medical emergencies but stresses cardiac arrest as a particularly critical need for emergency services. Concludes ...

7 pages in length. The writer discusses the basic eighteen hours required by the pre-pharmacy program, as well as discusses what might make a student choose the pharmaceutical profession. Bibliography lists 5 sources.

A sixteen-page paper which assesses the genetic, physiological and cultural factors which pre-dispose Hispanic American children to type 2 diabetes, and looks at the ways in which social and health education programmes may be initiated to alleviate the behavioural patterns which have contributed to the rapid rise of the condition in young people over the ...

(20pp) Managed health care has presented problems to both physicians and patients. This discussion examines major issues and possible changes. The nature and the duty of physician -patent relationship between a traditional legal fiduciary duty and a limited duty of fidelity will also be analyzed. Bibliography lists 11 sources.

A 7 page outline of the description and effects of Chlamydia, a bacteria which can have severe consequences for Philadelphia teens and indeed for individuals around the world, claiming four million victims in 2000 alone. Teens in particular are extremely susceptible to this potentially catastrophic organism. Philadelphia teens in particular exhibit a number ...

10 pages in length. Diabetes is perhaps one of the most debilitating and dangerous diseases known to mankind; however, it is just as silent and invisible as a burglar in the dead of night. This chronic disease can affect anyone at any time of his or her life, significantly damaging kidney function, eyesight ...

A 7 page overview of the concerns of a community assessment for health care concerns. Uses Atlantic County New Jersey as an example of a community with a number of health care concerns which are important in the self-care deficit theory. Provides statistical tables of the demographic, mortality, and disease factors impacting this ...