Introduction The kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a relatively young nation compromising of 13 provinces and one of the largest countries in the Middle East at 2.4 million square kilometres (WHO, 2004). Saudi Arabia enjoys a vast oil reserve in the world. Oil affluence has led to an increased improvement...
Abstract Cultural competence is comprised of diverse racial and ethnical beliefs of people. When managing health issues to patients, the administrators need to acknowledge the social and cultural differences of the patients to attend to them. Failure of this can greatly influence the health of the particular groups negatively. Over...
Introduction The human body is composed of several systems of organs with each of these systems having specific functions to perform. There are diseases which affect the body system organs thereby leading to the inability for the organs to perform their roles appropriately. One such disease that will be considered...
Introduction Physician-health arrangements have changeable levels of common possession, supremacy and management. On this basis, there are varied models of new physician-hospital arrangements which include; physician-hospital organization, management services organization, and integrated health organization among others. In this study, two physician-hospital arrangements will be addressed. From evidences, it has been...
Introduction Duchenne muscular dystrophy is categorized as a muscular dystrophy of the severe type. In this case, the condition results in muscle degeneration progression. Ultimately, a patient suffering to DMD might be afflicted with ambulation loss, leading to death. It is important to note that one in every 3500 males...
Introduction The care accorded to patients serves as the motivation for managed care organizations (MCOs) since their objective is profit making. The managed care organizations not only seek to increase the number of their enrollees but also the long term relationship they have with them for customer satisfaction and loyalty....
Introduction The health care delivery systems are faced with challenges of quality, costs, and access. The mode of addressing these issues lies in moderating them accordingly. The cost of health care affects the welfare of an economy adversely since individuals are not able to get the required medical care when...
Introduction to health care Healthcare is a fundamental aspect in the life of every citizen of a given country. To protect this and ensure that every citizen enjoys this vital service, the government usually stipulates certain legal issues that are meant to protect it and ensure that its implementers do...
Introduction Healthcare is one of the most important parts of a nation’s Social system. As such, the US government has always taken a keen interest in the healthcare provision of its citizens. Nathanson states that this idea of government involvement in the health concerns of the citizens can trace its...
Introduction There are several issues that have been facing the healthcare industry for a long period of time. The behavioral healthcare system is struggling with numerous current issues that need to be addressed. Some of the issues include but not limited to; mental health services within the healthcare delivery system,...
The creation of a genetically identical human copy is called human cloning. Human clones such as identical twins are common in the world today, where the cloning happens during the natural process of reproduction. Cloning is one of the most controversial issues in the world today, especially therapeutic cloning which...
Introduction Performance management and improvement is an area that has captured the mind of management in all organisations, including health care institutions. It has, in fact, become one of the major mindset issues within health care organisations (Walburg, 2006; Stahl, 2004; Barnard, 2004). The fact that health care organisations are...
Introduction Managed care is one of the primary health care systems adopted by the U.S. government to control the provision of health care to its citizens, through specific healthcare organizations and medical practitioners (Tobin, 1997, p.1). The system manages the funding and delivery of required healthcare services to individuals who...
Introduction The needs of patients have prompted specialization in nursing (Boyd and Nihart, 2008). There is need for the patients to be empowered and a nurse-patient relationship to be built for the success of the nursing sector (Ruel, & Motyka, 2009). In order to achieve this, there is need to...
Introduction Medicare Prospective Payment System, also known as PPS was a government initiation established in 1983 as a means of changing hospital behavior by the provision of financial incentives encouraging cost-efficient management as regards medical care (Singh, 2009). With each Medicare admission, the hospital usually gets a predetermined rate under...
What is difficult in defining what being healthy means? At a glance, it seems to be so easy, and being healthy simply means the absence of some diseases, normal functioning of all systems in the human body. However, there is another way to look at the question and define health....
Introduction The management of patient’s health information is one of the important features of a hospital. The health information is usually referred to during the treatment of the patient as it provides a medical history of the patient. Health information management consists of the collection, maintenance, and proper care of...
Introduction Evidence-based practice in nursing is gaining momentum in many hospitals due to its usefulness in achieving maximum benefits for the patients and nurses. Evidence-based practice is the process whereby nursing practitioners locate, appraise, and to a larger extent, apply the best and latest medical literature and nursing evidence in...
Introduction Social determinants of health have become an integral part of the disease epidemiology and control. The fact that many preventable disease and conditions are finding their origin in the social environment makes this field crucial for policymakers and health care workers. The social determinants of health encompass the social,...
Abstract Health is the completeness of the physical, social and intellectual aspects of an individual; which all interrelate towards realizing a healthy status. Some of the factors determining the health of individuals include lifestyles, environment, genetic factors, social integration, and the varying pressures within the environment like population increase. The...
Diabetes is a condition of high levels of sugar in the blood. It is a metabolic disorder characterized by insulin deficiency that leads to impaired utilization of glucose, which induces hyperglycemia. Hyperglycemia is a condition of high blood sugar while hypoglycemia is a condition of low blood sugar. Insulin is...
Introduction The rules and the principles of health care management and the issues of the quality of health care system performance. It is necessary to mention that the concern on the issues of the health care system in the USA has reached a slow boil. Health care ranks among the...
In the information age, the introduction and use of information processing and communication technology in different professions and trades have been widely embraced. Nursing as one of the most ancient and needed professions has not been left untouched in the search of ways to utilize technology to improve efficiency in...
Introduction Socialized health care is a coordinated scheme which ensures insurance for each individual in a society. The first known health care reform proposal in America dates back to 1854 called the Bill for the Benefit of Indigent Insane which was not approved by the then President Franklin Pierce stating...
Human Papilloma Virus This paper is about a sexually transmitted viral infection called the Human Papilloma Virus. The Human Papilloma Virus or HPV is part of a group of a hundred related viruses known as papillomaviruses because certain types are a well-known cause of papillomas or warts (National Cancer Institute,...
Introduction The modern-day world has been faced with many challenges in the delivery of quality health care. There have been global climatic changes due to environmental pollution as many pollutants are dispensed into the environment. This is due to the rise in industries as many countries rush to attain industrialization...
Introduction Health expenditure is increasing from a day-to-day global perspective. The world spent US $ 4.7 trillion in 2006 (WHO, 2009). Some countries spend more of the world’s resources than is expected against the proportional population. The nations which have a large burden of the world’s diseases though their population...
Introduction The Act of the Public Health Service in the United States designed the PHS (United States Public Service) as the fundamental division of the HEW (Health Education and Welfare) Department. This Department was later changed into the USDHHS (United States Department of Health and Human Services). The PHS consists...
Introduction Every year, an estimated 350 children die from micronutrient deficiency-related diseases in the Dominican Republic. 400 children are born with folate deficiency, which results in neural tube birth defects. Only nine percent of the Dominican Republic has access to fortified sugar and flour as a micronutrients supplement. Vitamin A...
Introduction Electronic Health Record (EHR) also referred to as Electronic Patient Record (EPR) has become a fundamental tool in the management of health care systems. Electronic Health Records ensure smooth workflow in the various healthcare institutions. Consequently, different departments can share information about a particular patient at the same time....
Introduction Usually, people just consume any type of food thinking that it’s a healthy diet. They even go a long way to try different types of food like carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins but end not having the right combination that is required to form a healthy diet. Although most people...
Statistics show that in the UK, 8000 people are affected by Cystic Fibrosis. In the US, 1 in every 31 people is a carrier of the gene and with symptoms. In African countries, one in every 20, 000 people has it. It is the most common hereditary disease among Caucasians...
The workforce is the most important resource that any organization has. Effective management entails proper planning and strategizing so as to formulate goals and objectives to be achieved during a given timeline. To achieve this, the employees must share in the organization’s dreams and aspirations. A right reward system motivates...
Introduction Hospital management determines the quality of health care provision in any health institution (Allcorn, 1996). It demands the essence of good leadership for its smooth and effective operation in the delivery of health care services. Due to the complexity of management systems in health care institutions, there is need...
Not-for-profit organizations such as the churches have been granted no-profit status by the IRS (Internal Revenue Service), while others have the profit status. Under the non-profit status, organizations, among them being the healthcare organizations, cannot participate in some of the functions and/or activities because they are restricted by the IRS....
Introduction The health care industry has intense growth in the world; it is the industry that always deals in pact with the clients. Health care is an important tool and it is believed that when health is lost, something is lost. Health providers take the utmost care and they are...
Introduction The hospital was started in 1889, and from since, it has been carrying the roles of teaching, research work and patient care. Among the operations include patient care and training and research. The institution and the country have greatly been transformed since teaching started after the opening of school...
The United States of America is currently facing a critical time in deciding the future healthcare system which is acceptable by a majority and affordable by all citizenry. Both financial institutions and other big hospitals are facing an economic hardship that threatens the collapse of the industry. If the situation...
Life expectancy at birth is 77.4 for both men and women in the UK in 1997 (European Observatory on Health Care systems, 1999). The National Health Service has the principle of collective responsibility for a comprehensive health service. The key feature is that it is free at the point of...
Introduction With the new democratic leadership in the USA, Barrack Obama’s reign has given the health care sector a major priority since there is a feeling that the sector has been neglected for a long period of time. Many reforms have continued to be observed as the government seeks to...
Community participation in decision making on health Community participation in decision making for health such as planning and management of health care services and their own health is one of the fundamental goals of primary health care movement. Community participation is a concept that attempts to bring different stakeholders including...
Introduction For the past decade, we have witnessed significant changes in the health care system. These changes have enabled fast and efficient health care delivery, in addition to assisting health care providers to reduce their operational costs (Kumekawa, 2004, p. 1). On the other hand, patients are now in a...
Introduction Health care insurance has sparked a lot of controversies in the United States which have more than one payer system. The result has been increasing costs of healthcare, problems handling of information, as well as problems of overall coverage for the citizens. Many people are not yet covered in...
Introduction Medical personnel are faced with hard decisions to make on their behalf and the behalf of their patients. In making these decisions, they must be guided by some professional ethics which are essential for them. At the same time they are guided by the nature of human life and...
Introduction Many healthcare organizations have taken several steps to ensure the privacy and security of patients’ information. However, the best has not been achieved since some healthcare organizations are still experiencing the problem. Many healthcare organizations are experiencing both internal and external threats. The systems that are put in place...
Steps in Health Care Organization Strategic Planning Strategic planning occurs in a number of steps. First is the development of a mission statement. This defines the organization’s intentions, targeted clients, and a justification of its existence. This is followed by strategic analysis, where there is an in-depth assessment of the...
Introduction Health care in the United States has been provided by different authorized entities for a long time. Most healthcare services are provided by personal institutions. Private institutions provide health insurance services to approximately 15% of Americans. Each American spends a lot of money on health than any other person...
Introduction Obesity is a growing health problem among children. America and other developed countries have higher risks of the problem. This paper presents the problem of obesity, two ways of combating the problem of obesity, intake of nutritious food, doing physical exercise, and comparison and contrast between these two ways...
Introduction America’s health care system is broken because of the large number of uncovered health insurance. New plans and schemes are being experimented with to bring a strong health care system to America. This paper presents six points of the RWJF blueprint for the change in the health care system...
Elements of Informed Consent – Case Study Informed consent is the right of the patient to obtain sufficient and factual information from the physician or their representative. Based on this information, the patient can make an informed decision about the continuance of a particular treatment or procedure. Patients generally have...
Introduction Since its early history, nursing as a profession has always been seen as a calling of dedication, sacrifice, and commitment; indeed, nurses are among the few noble professionals today. Despite the fact that nursing practice has come a long way in terms of expansion of knowledge and improvement of...
The ideal of universal health care is anti-competitive and represents an unneeded step towards transforming America into a welfare society. The Universal Health Care Ideal The current acrimonious debate on “upgrading” the health care system in America is afflicted, first of all, by gaps in perceptions and reference baselines. The...
Introduction Modern healthcare organizations require improved healthcare service and better communication with patients. Healthcare homes in the UK are the main institutions required professional staff and special communication strategies. Barchester Care Homes is one of the residencies proposing different programs and services for elderly. In spite of great changes and...
Introduction Consumer-driven health care is a term that covers the plans put in place to enable patients or consumers to use Personal Health Savings Account, Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or any other invention of medical payment to pay for the cost of regular health care expenses directly (Kane L., 1998). The...
In order to gain an insight into breast cancer, it is imperative that it is analyzed in light of three perspectives. These perspectives are: the risk factors of breast cancer, the methods that exist for the early detection of breast cancer, and the impacts of breast cancer upon the patient....
Community Health Nursing Community health nurses are a special group of nurses who work in the community with aim of helping the community improve their health through using locally available resources. They form part of the larger community and family health care professionals. Some of the functions of community health...
Introduction Consumer-driven health care is a term used to refer to plans of health insurance that enable the patients to make use of Health Reimbursement Arrangements, Personal Health Savings account, or any other products of medical payment to pay for regular expenses of health care directly (Calabreta N., 2002). Health...
Definition of Cultural Competent Care Cultural competence in nursing suggests that nurses must be sensitive to matters related to culture, race, economic situation, social class, and gender (Huber, 2006). These imply that nurses are aware and sensitive and have the capacity to intervene appropriately and effectively in matters relating to...
What are the challenges facing Medicare? Can we afford them? Despite this highly organized distribution of health care provision roles between the federal, provincial and territorial administrations, Canada has faced a lot of challenges in its health care programs whereby the widening of the health care affordability gap has been...
Obesity is a major problem and is a risk factor for several other problems such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetics, hypertension, osteoarthritis, and other chronic conditions. It is defined as having excessive amounts of body fat. In the United States alone 33 percent of adults and 20 percent of children are...
Introduction Long-term care is an important aspect of the health system, and despite its importance and inevitable necessity, the context of Long-term care services can be often misunderstood. In that sense the type of Long-term care services, the Long-term care facilities and the implemented health insurance sometimes can be unfamiliar...
Health care strategies have emerged as indispensable tools to serve the patient needs in a variety of clinical settings. They contribute to the betterment of hospital life through the dexterous job of physicians and nurses. The sanctity of such a conducive atmosphere may go undiscovered when it looses the vital...
Abstract Using evidence-based information is a key nursing practice. An important instrument to building up evidence-based practice is a critical review of current research. This essay aims at critically reviewing the article (Randomized double-blind placebo-controlled donepezil augmentation in antidepressant-treated elderly patients with depression and cognitive impairment: a pilot study) by...
This paper will look at the following; Costa Rica’s health status of the population & the healthcare, the general organization of health care system, functions of the Health system, factors affecting health care system, healthcare system in relation to the rural population Introduction This is a Central American country that...
Lung cancer is generally viewed as a preventable disease because of its strong link with cigarette smoking. In fact, over 85% of lung cancer cases have been found to be caused by smoking (Oung, p. 1360). To see people die of lung cancer and to realize that they might be...
Introduction Since information system has not penetrated that much into the healthcare industry. It has a vast scope for entry. Many organizations have developed and implemented the health care information systems. Fast growth of information systems in health care industries. The today information system will be managed so many health...
The controversy surrounding stem cell research has been raging on in the media and among political circles for quite some time now. The whole issue basically centers on the creation, use and the elimination of human embryonic stem cells (Stem Cell Basics). This is mainly based on the use to...
The ‘health record’ is the principal repository of an individual patient, and advancements in information technology and the emergence of electronic medical record systems revolutionized health records management. Health information management (HIM) professionals serve the healthcare industry and public by “managing, analyzing, and utilizing the data vital for patient care...
Elevated progesterone concentration during pregnancy and the use of progesterone-like contraceptives are known to reduce ovarian cancers. This study was undertaken to decipher whether or not there is any relationship between progesterone (also estrogen)-mediated OSE apoptosis and expression of p53, a cell-cycle arresting protein and potential tumor suppressor. For this,...
Research Question What is the effect of different shampoos on the growth of bacteria in the hair? Materials 9 Petri dishes Agar gel Cotton buds Three different shampoos Test tubes Droppers Test tube rack Labels Independent variable Different types of shampoos Dependent variable The rate of growth of bacteria on...
Introduction With the debut of the film Sicko by Michael Moore, this helped to significantly illustrate the extent to which problems within the health care system of the United States have escalated over the years, to an extent that all the Americans, save for the very rich, have been affected...
Information Exchange Right information presented in a proper way to the people in need of the information makes a difference in the quality of decisions in any healthcare setting. Healthcare information exchange implies the mobilization of healthcare information by using electronic means across organization within a region. Information exchange provides...
Ethics and Research The integrity of the researchers is one of the essential values of research. This includes the commitment of the researchers to the research questions. These questions are designed to contribute to the knowledge and protection of truth. It also includes a commitment to reliance on research methods...
Ethical Implications Ethical and social issues are bound to arise to some extent in any scientific research because the outcome of the research is expected to affect the living of the people (Stem Cell Research). Even though the study of adult and cold blood stem cells is not objected to...
Types of Managed Care Organizations Managed care is often provided by a health maintenance organization shortly known as HMO. The name of HMO was provided to emphasize the focus of the organization on health promotion and prevention. Staff-Model HMO was the one originally evolved in which physicians are salaried employees...
Governance structure, organizational culture, strategic planning processes, and decision-making procedures are some of the key elements of organizational design (Dubbs and Browning). To convert an organization into a process-centered one it is important that major changes in the organizational design is undertaken to improve productivity. The improvements undertaken by Stanford...
Managed health care refers to the various types of health care insurance programs that aim at providing the people with health care services at the lowest price possible. The focus of the various programs employed differs depending on the type of the managed health care in question for instance some...
Introduction Smoking is the most rampant form of drug use in the world only second after alcohol. Tobacco smoking is attributed to many cases of preventable mortalities but still remains prevalent in the society as Fong (4) comments. It has become the centre of health concern world wide due to...
Proper health care can be achieved when there are enough finances to support the costly diagnostic tests and processes, and lengthy stays for inpatients. Insurance is one of the healthcare system service components that protect individuals against dangerous risks when needing costly health care services. Insurance covers in this context...
Abstract Recently, there has been neglect of the traditional focus upon comforting patients who are at the end of their lives. In addition, there has been inadequate staff for palliative care, limited knowledge of palliative medicine, and a lack of knowledge in medical practitioners about the preferences of elderly adults...
The United States healthcare system is characterized by several elements that differentiate it from the healthcare systems of other nations such as its neighboring Canada. Two characteristics of the US healthcare system include a multiple-payer system and insurance-based access (Uretsky, 2007). These characteristics are believed to be the reason why...
The significance of the body’s well-being is a concept that individuals cannot ignore. Different health challenges face people depending on their social and economic classes. With current changing trends in nutrition and health systems, many challenges face effective health care provision. The significance of improved health care manifests itself in...
Dr. Jean Watson is an American nursing scholar born in West Virginia, who completed her undergraduate degree in nursing and psychology, her master’s degree in psychiatric-mental health nursing, and her Ph.D. in educational psychology and counseling at the University of Colorado. Dr. Watson has received several national and international honors,...
Abstract There exists different understanding of health between societies. This has resulted into increased health risks in some and reduced health risks in others. Technologic and economic developments are favouring growth in health reducing the risk of catching disease and how to deal with diseases and how to maintain this...
Introduction In North America today, one of the worrying issues is the rising cases of child obesity and this has been attributed to many causes. An obese child has an excessive fat in the body. To gauge a child obesity levels, most physicians use the body mass index (BMI). Some...
Introduction Major depression refers to a recurrent mental disease or disorder; whose major characteristic is recurrent episodes of reduced mood which lasts a span of at least 14 days. Commonly this is seen as an all-encompassing low mood and poor self esteem. Additionally, this is accompanied by lack of interest...
Health policy is defined as a statement of a decision concerning a goal in health care and a laid out plan for achieving that goal. It is a set objective to meet a required health need. For example to prevent an epidemic, a project for immunizing a population is developed...
Introduction As patients with diabetes have to take care of their condition outside of a hospital environment, they need to learn how to participate in their health management. Self-management practices that include treatment adherence, monitoring sugar values, and maintaining diet and exercise plans help to enhance life quality and health...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) means a state of excessive or unremitting worries about numerous aspects of life, such as financial or family issues, work stress, and others, which last for more than 6 months. In many cases, an individual does not know the exact reason for this condition, which makes...
This review will have two major parts, the first part is identifying the complex interventions in the prevention of obesity and analyzing them into different components. The second part will include reviewing the evidence of various intervention strategies, both medical and non-medical. Due to the volume of studies in this...
The Impact of Public Health Reporting on the U.S. Healthcare System One of the public health practitioners’ primary roles is to promote individuals’ overall well-being through health improvement, health protection, and service improvement initiatives using populace health surveillance approaches. Every major cause of health deterioration in the U.S, ranging from...
The implementation of a single-payer healthcare system in the United States has been discussed for several years. It is a hotly-debated issue that aims at addressing the problem of inequity. The US healthcare system is flawed as it does not offer universal healthcare. The Affordable Care Act has played a...
The healthcare system in the U.S. was always the pool for debate. The introduction of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was supposed to provide a healthcare reform by changing taxation for individuals and government entities. It did indeed expand Medicare eligibility to adult children and elderly populations. However, the following...
The system of providing medical services differs in each country and is based on its culture and economic state’s peculiarities. The modern US healthcare system is built on a variety of private providers and insurance companies funded by the government or consumers. However, this system is continually transforming and changing...
Summary of Teaching Plan The community teaching plan aims to inform the vulnerable population about the importance of a healthy diet and physical activity and develop their skills of using a blood glucose self-monitoring test and a mobile app for diabetes management. The designated topic is secondary prevention and screening...
Introduction Medicare and Medicaid are two different programs administered and funded by separate parts of the government and primarily serve different social groups. Medicare is a federal program providing health coverage for people over or under 65 who have a disability regardless of one’s income. Medicaid is both a state...
Objectives To develop measurable goals for Electronic Health Record (EHR) adoption and implementation To formulate plans for change management and communication to the rest of the staff To create specific work plan To formulate a specific feature that will show if EHR is successful Why the EHR Should Be Promoted...
Introduction The quality of healthcare care and the treatment directly depends on the performance of nurses and other medical professionals, their skills and knowledge. To maintain clinical staff in a strained healthcare environment and prevent possible errors that may occur in daily workflow, many medical organizations implement various health information...
Introduction From time to time, most people experience worries, tension, or fear. While those affective states are generally unpleasant, they tend to be temporary and have no major consequences for the lives of individuals. Moreover, people typically have the resources to cope with their stress and concerns on their own....