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Trans Health Crisis
The magazine publisher is the copyright holder of this article and it is reproduced with permission. Further reproduction of this article in violation of the copyright is prohibited. I'm sitting in a cardiologist's waiting room filling out my intake forms. The tip of my pen hovers above the ubiquitous binary boxes. Female or male? I was born female-bodied and I identify as female--as a lesbian butch. However, some people see me as a feminine male.
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Argument for a National Health Care System
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) stated that “The health of the individual is almost inseparable from the health of the larger community and that the health of every community in every state and territory determines the overall health status of the nation.” It has now become clear that our economy in terms of healthcare insurance is not healthy; the healthcare system in the United States spends 1 cent of
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Advertising Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Advertising Can Be Hazardous To Your Health How far will companies go to sell their products? All too often the answer is too far. Advertising is a marketing technique that both blatantly and subconsciously persuades consumers to purchase products. Companies exhibit a breech of ethics in their strategies to sell their products, being even more reprehensible when the marketing is targeted to children. Advertisers are not held accountable for the effects their marketing efforts have
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Mental Health and Religion
Mental Health and Religion · Abstract The aim of this investigation was to study the relationship between good mental health and religion. To study a group of participants I designed a questionnaire, which used a likert scale, and the data collected was analysed using a program on SPSS. The data collected had a significant negative correlation, so the results were similar to those from other studies examining religion and its relationship with mental health. In
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Ethical and Legal Issues in Interactive Health Communications: A Call for International Cooperation
Cyberspace is a fast-changing, globally-networked, multicultural, and multilingual information environment with vast possibilities [1-9]. It calls into question national and international borders, cultural and ethical standards, regulations, and laws, which it bypasses and challenges [10-13]. In the health sector, self-care, drugs sold over the Internet, and providing access to technical knowledge and alternative forms of healthcare to the general public have destabilized drug regulatory mechanisms and the traditional physician-patient relationship. The Internet offers unprecedented power
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University Health Care Services: Walk-In Clinic
Several existing problems precipitated the creation of the triage system implemented by Kathryn Angell in an effort to deliver improved medical care. The main problem was a lack of coordination in service delivery. This lack of coordination caused excessive wait times on the order of anywhere from 23 to 40 minutes to see a nurse, 40 to 50 minutes to see a doctor, and as long as 55 minutes to get a prescription filled. The
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Health Impacts of Global Warming
�The Implications For Health In Global Warming’ This essay will discuss global warming and the degree to which it will negatively affect people’s health and well being. Negative global warming related health effects will vary greatly due to geographical location and socio-economic status. Generally developed countries will be far better placed to confront the health challenges of climate change, than the developing word that already experiences a lower average state of health and less developed
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Va Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System
VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System Human Resources (05A) 400 Veterans Avenue Biloxi, MS 39531 Applicants must submit the following: 1a. On-station (VA Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System) employees must submit an Application for Promotion or Reassignment, VA Form 5-4078, to Human Resources (05), Bldg 53, Room 2A-108. You must indicate the lowest grade you are willing to accept or we will only consider you at the Full Performance Level of the position.
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Health Insurance Reford
Within the previous four years, the number of uninsured Americans has jumped to forty five million people. Beginning in the 1980’s, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) has been trying to fix this problem of health insurance coverage for everyone with a basic reform. The AAFP’s plan imagined every American with ensured coverage for necessary improved services that fall between the crucial health benefits and the surprising costs. (Sweeney) They expect by fostering prevention,
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Universal Health Care in the United States
Universal Health Care in the United States The self-employed business woman opens the envelope in her hand with trepidation. It is the annual renewal notice regarding the premiums of her individual health insurance policy. She draws her breath sharply when she sees the figure of $17,928.00. The justification for the cost: the advancing age of the woman, and rising health care costs. She is now faced with a difficult decision. She can drop the current
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Fraud Risk for Cerner Health
Fraud Risks There were various factors that we considered when evaluating fraud risk concerning Cerner’s 2007 financial statements. To assess this risk, we looked at areas that were unique to the Healthcare IT industry and also at some situations that could possibly cause management to over or understate certain accounts. There were three main factors that would influence fraud risk: estimations of software development costs, the pressure of the industry, and the backlogging of contracts.
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Occupational Safety and Health Act
Introduction Workplace safety is a commonly used phrase that many do not consider until an accident occurs within the workplace. Throughout the U.S., workplace injuries occur on a daily basis. This has been an issue in the workforce for many years and is still an ongoing issue. Are there laws that protect employees from an unsafe work environment; what is the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA); and how did the labor unions affect the
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Safety and Health Management Issues in the Workplace
Riordan Manufacturing IS Upgrades February 8, 2006 To compete in the 21st century companies need to be on the leading edge not only with product design and development, but at the cutting edge in business efficiency. To attain this requires the successful 21st century corporation to have computer systems capable of working together, information that can be easily shared within a global business environment, accurate inventory control throughout the manufacturing and distribution process, and
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Technology and Health
When technology changes, people change. Not only people, but the environment, our resources, our dependency on our resources, and many other things. The change can be for the good, or it can work against us. If someone finds themselves participating in an inactive situation and they are enjoying themselves, then they may think nothing of it. Take television or the computer for instance. When you are on the computer or watching T.V. you may be
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Critical Issues in Health
Healthy People 2010 is an initiative started by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in January 2000. It is a program that has 467 specific objectives, 28 goals (focus areas) and two overachieving goals to serve as a framework for improving the health of all people during the first decade of the 21st century. The two overachieving goals of this program are meant to serve as a guide in the development of
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Health Care Delivery Model
Health Care Delivery Model: Childhood Asthma Sara October 22, 2005 University of Portland School of Nursing Abstract Childhood asthma affected an estimated 5 million children under the age of 15 during the year of 1995. The diagnosis of this disease is on a continual rise in the United States, and it is the responsibility of all health care providers to busy themselves in providing the proper patient education, treatment, and preventative measures available to
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Rhododendron County Health
STRATEGIC PLANNING AND THE RHODODENDRON COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT The Rhododendron County Health Department In 1990, the department of Health and Human Services published Public Health Service: Healthy People 2000: National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives. Objective 8:14 of that document calls for ninety percent of the population to be served by local health departments that would effectively carry out the three core functions of public health: assessment, policy development, and quality assurance. (Sultz and
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The Media’s Influence on Health
The mass media (including everything from television and music to popular novels and fan cultures), creates an endless and accessible flow of information. “What we know about the world beyond out immediate surroundings comes to us via the media (Yates 1999).” The technology of electronic media and the art of advertising have combined to create very powerful tools of influence. These tools are capable of shaping the attitudes, values and behaviors of large numbers
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Mental Health Assessment Paper
Mental Health Assessment Paper A.R. presents as an amicable, overweight 45-year-old woman diagnosed with undifferentiated-type schizophrenia. She was dressed eccentrically in winter clothing, including a coat and toboggan, even though we were indoors for the interview. She sat quietly on the couch, somewhat slumped, picking at the loose threads on her shirt. When she was first admitted, she had a strong belief that her husband was out to get her. She would wake up in
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An Essay Analysis of Philip Longmans’ “the Health of Nations”
An Essay Analysis of Philip Longmans’ “The Health of Nations” Philips Longman wrote an essay, “The Health of Nations,” critically looking at the American health care system. He begins his essay with financial figures in the United States and Costa Rica and how much we spend on each person per year for medical coverage. United States spend about $4500 on per person while Costa Rica spends about $273 per person. Throughout the essay, Longman compares
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Healthful Eating
Abstract Many people do not understand the food pyramid or how to eat nutritionally. The food pyramid has recently changed and now includes physical activity. There are many ways to begin changing one's diet. Simply by changing one thing at a time until it is habit will greatly benefit a person's health. Adding exercise, even just a 30-minute walk, will be beneficial to one's health. Making these changes can also affect various cancers and heart
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Health Care in the United States
The United States in one of the richest, most populous and most powerful countries in the world and plays a central leadership role in the world. On the world stage, the U.S. often challenges other countries about their records regarding human rights. Yet the United States is failing its own citizens by not granting every citizen access to basic health care. Many citizens in the United States needlessly suffer and die each day due to
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Protecting Yourself and Your Baby: Teen Pregnancy and Health Risks
Teen pregnancy and health risks to both mother and infant are unfortunately closely related. In general, infants born to adolescent mothers are at a higher risk of accidental injury and poisoning, complications of prematurity, learning disabilities and cognitive problems, minor acute infections, sudden infant death syndrome. Also, rates of premature birth and low birth weight are higher among teenage mothers. Teen pregnancy and health risks go hand in hand in girls 14 years old and
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Health in Your Own Hands
In response to the question of what I am most thankful for, I said I am most grateful to god for leaving me with great health. Maintaining good health and preventing illness is not an easy task and requires major responsibility. Health is with the individual when they take that first breath and with them when they take the last. In that sense, it is the individual’s responsibility to maintain good health since they are
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Business Plan for My Health Oriented Restaurant
Business Plan for my health oriented restaurant Organix Company Overview Organix will be a restaurant which focuses on serving only healthy and organic based food, with special emphasis to use local farmers’ goods. Its location, Grьnwald, in the south of Munich is the perfect setting for such a specialty restaurant. Grьnwald is on of the richest suburbs in Germany, with a lot of people focusing on a healthy diet. Organix would start out as a
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