Health & Medicine Essay Examples and Topics. Page 88

This paper discusses the pros and cons of gastric bypass surgery in the light of the evidence available and helps to determine whether the risks of the procedure outweigh the benefits.

The testing can also be done to diagnose the genetic disorder, detecting future risks of contracting diseases as a result of genetic disorders, how these disorders respond to drugs, and detecting the extent of risks [...]

But the most important fact is that, among them a huge number of people are homeless and it is to be said the self-contradictory characteristic of U.S.the richest country of the world.

In fact, the results of this prospective study can reasonably be projected to the universe of Germans with mental disorders only if Rehabilitation Psychisch Kranker in the city of Halle is a kind of secondary [...]

When a patient is in the final stage of life, sometimes, the disease or the conditions of the patient, cause a lot of physical and psychological suffering.

Since doctors are usually required to remain on the main floors of the hospital to attend to admitted and critical care patients, the next best thing to having a doctor in the emergency room is [...]

The organization is very important to many family members or the caregivers of the seniors, as it will allow them to have the necessary freedom to go to work or to attend to other personal [...]

Nursing theories provide useful information concerning the definitions of nursing and the practice itself, principles that form the foundation for nursing, and also the goals and functions of nursing.

A person should also be emotionally ready to reduce weight and have a continuous commitment to the program of weight loss.

The goals of the end of life care are to be determined by the nature and assessment of the end of life by the patients' attitude and the carers' viewpoint.

Obesity is also associated with high blood pressure which also increases the risk of stroke. Osteoarthritis of the knee, hip, hands and lower back is very common in people with obesity.

Much of the major adjustments physically, emotionally, and mentally start to happen when we reach puberty or more commonly called the adolescent stage Upon reaching this age, humans undergo rapid growth of muscles and bones, [...]

The interest and attention invoked by this paper were largely due to the fact that it appeared to provide a biological means through which MMR vaccine resulted in autism.

Organ donation is the removal of organs or tissues of the human body from a recently died person or from a living person for the sole purpose of transplanting.

The coming into existence of deadly diseases and the escalation of the already existing epidemics, to name but a few, are some of the key characteristics of this century.

It could also be between her and the patient.collaboration between the nurse and the patient is crucial in the delivery of quality care to the patient.

The more knowledge in the field I get the more knowledge I want to acquire. With his limited knowledge of endodontics, I was initially pushed to do all the root canals in the office.

The frustration in the nursing profession might be due to the existence of the gap between the issues of need and its fulfillment.

Nursing is involved with roles such as assisting the sick and injured from pain to recovery, providing primary healthcare, promoting quality health care through preventive and curative healthcare, and giving health care guidance and counselling [...]

They also argue that a physician can choose to end life after deciding that the life of the patient is of diminished quality and therefore it does not deserve to be prolonged.

With well-defined descriptions of various careers individuals can learn what is expected from them, functions and positions of the career, opportunities in the field, the qualifications required to practice, opportunities and threats in the field [...]

The desire of the phase of the sexual response cycle consists of an urge to have sex, sexual fantasies, and sexual attraction to others.

Part of the requirements of living beings is the capability of transporting nutrients, wastes and gases to and from cells. The heart is the pump that moves the blood and gases throughout the body.

Even if we can only make a connection of something we see with a sound, it is easier to remember something we can speak, because the auditory memory helps the visual memory.

The quality of health care that an organization delivers is greatly influenced by the ability of the organization to meet the demands of the customers in a very convenient way. The work of health care [...]

One thing, however, I discovered is that despite one's conviction on a particular field of career, it is important to consult an expert in that field just to be sure if that is exactly what [...]

As AIDS is relevant to the end of the last century, and the beginning of the millennium, there were questions, on whether the new disease is connected to the cultural changes that occurred in the [...]

The latter groups consist of diseases transmitted from a vector as a result of a pest or insect bite that may contain the virus or the bacteria that cause the infection.

This paper presents the dynamics and aspects of the impact of regulatory framework in the respect of health and safety standards as defined by Occupational Safety and Health Administration of the United States of America.

The effects of class also affects mortality and lifespan of people in lower strata is of society, since chronic poor health and disease cuts down the life span and accelerates mortality The right to good [...]

In plastic surgeries, people have a different argument in that some claim that it is a way of making a person more beautiful but the fact is in taking this kind of surgery it might [...]

McKenna et al.conducted a study to determine the extent of the antipsychotic effect on the general population and examine the rates of abortions and birth defects.

That is the way the society we live in treats people as the product of the latter from one hand and obtaining, no doubt, knowledge, means to dwell, working skills and certainly, as a result [...]

The hypothesis of proportion allows us to generalize the results of a sample population to get the picture on the whole.

Several factors impede the making of accurate diagnosis of mental health to the detriment of the efficacy of the treatment interventions.

The characteristics of a psychopath are quite defined, the most noticeable characteristic being a general resistance to authority and to the conventional rules of society.

Kidneys are the major organs of the renal system which perform vital homeostatic processes such as maintenance of water and ionic balance in the body.

However, the severe obsessive-compulsive disorder may lead to major incapacitation adversely affecting the life of the victims. When an individual exhibits or complains about obsession or compulsion or both to the extent that his normal [...]

A problem diagnosed is halfway solved and just like sensitization of HIV/Aids virus infection helped in preventing its spread, and victims' stigmatization, this paper is intended to sensitize governments and the adolescent students at school [...]

Michel Foucault is one of the leading experts in the study of social control and his greatest contribution lies in his interpretation of social control, not as the product of an evil central authority of [...]

The aim of this essay is to briefly discuss the causes and characteristics of phenylketonuria, galactosemia, and Tay-Sachs disease and explain the link among them.

Non REM sleep represents 75% of sleep duration and occurs in four stages and REM sleep represents stage 5 of sleep.

Dialysis has prolonged life of many patients with Acute Renal failure and Chronic Kidney Disease owing to irreversible nature of the disease and renal transplant not being an open option for all patients.

The manifestations are symptoms of other illnesses or opportunistic infections which are exacerbated due to the immunosuppression of the CD4+ cells of the immune system by the HIV.

An appropriate method is applied based on the latter, and the result allows the researcher to reject, or fail to reject, the null hypothesis based on whether the resulting value is in a specific region. [...]

The findings of Nugent and colleagues, 2002, showed that the cultural diversity of the healthcare working force reflects the nation's cultural diversity and is probably matching that of patients.

This paper aims to research and analyze the causes, symptoms and the risk factors associated with the mental disease and discuss some of the prevention measures of the disease.

To the Latino/Hispanic community, the most worrying menace is HIV and is the fourth major cause of people in this area.

Taking into account healthcare field and the experience of a human service in the field of aged care, there is no conflict between these concepts because the nursing functions and duties involve and imply caring [...]

Successful systems are characterized by adaptation, the capacity to constantly readjust to the demands of the environment. They include the output - primarily, the offerings of products and services that the organization is required to [...]

In 1859, Florence Nightingale the founder of modern nursing expressed her meaning of nursing as "the goal of nursing is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him primarily [...]

The diets of the majority of infants should be alike to that of the family at the end of the first year.

In contrast to osteoarthritis, where the synovial covering of a joint is worn away, in Ankylosing spondylitis the affected synovium becomes massively hypertrophic and edematous with projections of synovial tissue protruding into the joint cavity.

For their pioneer work, Hounsfield and Cormack shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine in 1979 Some of the advances in CT scanners over the years include the development of spiral CT and multi-slice [...]

A more disarming approach is that of Thomson who maintains that the mother's right to control her own body overrides the right to life of the fetus unless the mother has a special responsibility to [...]

Another reason for facing obstructions in the progress of public health programs is the state and local problem that inhibits coordination within the public assistance system.

Very often this disease is treated with the help of haloperidol, a kind of injection used as a medicine against brain disorders and psychotic states.

Background checks on all the staff members should be performed to ensure effective service delivered to the patients this could be subjected to a weakly review to ensure competency in the staff workforce. The friendly [...]

The problem defined in the article has great significance for nursing as the result of the study can contribute heavily towards the service of the nurses.

It has also operating a network of more than 5,500 branches in forty-seven states, and the number will soon increase as the company is still working on opening more branches every day, making it one [...]

Various strategies may be adopted for the attainment of a good position in the market, and to increase the number of patients for healthcare services are given.

A team that has negative interactions between its members also shows that the flow of information across the team is not complete, wherein only a few members are knowledgeable of the details and even the [...]

The authors address one of the main problems faced by nurses and patients: alcohol abuse and alcohol-related disorders which influence communication and interpersonal relations.

If one is from a poor family then in this stage of adolescence a person will be forced to move out and search for means of living and satisfaction of basic needs this will lead [...]

This essay aims to outline the relationship between the brain, the nervous system, and the larger context of its working in relation to the other parts of the human body.

The education and training of more health workers are monitored by the hospital administrators. This they do through the boards, clubs and other organizations of medical interest.

These findings demonstrate that the enhanced tendency to develop Frontotemporal Dementia in these people is not due to a shared environment but to shared genetic material."One of the major criteria used for distinguishing frontal variant [...]

The cell wall is however, due to the presence of concentration of lipids, thought to be the main contributor for the virulence of the bacterium.

MetLife as one of the leaders in the area of health care insurance in the United States will also be affected by those changes and its workforce will face a number of considerable modifications in [...]

Therefore, the aim of this assignment is to explore the strengths and weaknesses of a research study define the term critique as a judgment about the merits and/or value of a piece of research.

Obesity is a state in which the original energy preserve, kept in the fatty stratum of the human organism, goes above the permitted level. Not taking into account the metabolic disorder, fatness is also associated [...]

There is borough of Bronx, which is considered to be the poorest, and the case with it has been stated here that asthma is the fate of the residents.

According to the information on the site, studies have been carried out to compare the death rate for a group of widows/widowers to that of a control group.

The first short-term mission of the CDC Preventions is to increase the percentage of those HIV-affected people who indulge in such activities which alleviates the risks or dangers of HIV transmission.

4 million children share the responsibility of caregiving to their adult relatives and 72% of which are caring for their own parents and/or grandparents From the population of family caregivers, 30% of them are seniors, [...]

Purpose of the study: to enhance understanding of HRT and to verify the potential role of progesterone in reducing the effects of unopposed estrogens on the endometrium.

Nevertheless, there is at least one crucial point that needs to be made, and it is this: it is vitally important that nurses learn to recognize the cyclical processes of social and cultural change and [...]

The major purpose of the community health promotion is to make identification of the constructs of the planned behavior theory, which has the inclusion of behavioral beliefs, control beliefs based on an individual's perception, and [...]

The da Vinci surgical system is the first and one of the famous Robotics surgical systems used in the operating room.

The Federal and state governments have the primary responsibility in protecting the public and the environment from the risks of exposure to ionizing radiation, by setting allowable exposure levels as well as emission and cleanup [...]

The core of this interaction is to learn and understand the circumstances of the situation and to direct the course of action to achieve the desired outcome of healing and recuperation on the part of [...]

The equipment and recommendation of the Physiotherapist should also conform to the provisions of the curriculum and with the needs of the department and facility.

The space between the dura mater and the arachnoid mater is called subdural space. The subarachnoid space is present between the arachnoid and pia mater, and contains the CSF.

The gap in time between identifying the cause of a disease like hepatitis C and finding a way to prevent, control, or eradicate it is often, unfortunately, a long one.

Most of these young men and women that engage in this business are end up being infected with HIV virus since they do not have the power to negotiate for safe sex and especially the [...]

The neck of the femur and structure of the head helps in the transmission of body weight efficiently by appropriate distribution of the bony trabeculae in the neck.

In the June, 2002 article entitled "Nurses Not Acting As Patient's Advocate: Substantial Verdict Entered Against hospital" from the Legal Eye Newsletter For The Nursing Profession, the case of a 17 year old who was [...]

The organization is the sole accreditation agency in the United States with regard to education in Physical Therapy. He is married with two children and is undergoing computer course in the hope of landing a [...]

Secondary databases are used to store and maintain huge amount of patient's record and their treatment history. There are numerous uses of secondary data which are as follows: Secondary data helps a lot to maintain [...]

According to A public health model can be applied in designing a strategy to solve a series of problems even where the police have been unable to respond successfully to the problems.

The overall result of this is the development of a clump of fatty material covered by a smooth muscle and fibrous tissue on the inside of the artery; this is known as an atherosclerotic plaque.

The World AIDS Day is not just celebrated in the United States, Europe, or Asia, it is observed all over the world because the disease does not only affect this part of the globe, but [...]

Since human cloning is still in the experimental stage and the criticism for and against the subject is replete with valid reasons rational thinkers will be put to the dilemma in agreeing with either of [...]

Through providing the rules and emphasizing that the stated rules must be obeyed, the child is helped by the family to master behavior and there is a structure in the family that helps to test [...]

This is the start of labor that is true to the dilation of the cervix. Active labor is the second phase of the first stage and there is more dilation that is rapid.

It has also been realized that the disease tends to age away in most of the cases studied in the United States.

The study hypothesis could be stated as the assumption that there is no possible effect of nursing staff's educational level and the mortality percentage of patients.

CDC is a premier public health agency which undertakes the control and prevention of AIDS in US, and their mission is to promote health and quality of life.

Qualitative research allows researchers to explore a wide array of dimensions of the social world, including the texture and weave of everyday life, the understandings, experiences and imaginings of our research participants, the way that [...]

The total costs of an activity can be classified into direct and indirect costs, and fixed and variable costs. Standard costs such as employee salaries and equipment costs are fixed to certain extent, after which [...]

The effectiveness of health education programs depend greatly on their manner of delivery and the intention. Their overestimation of the ability to face health risks themselves may be dangerous.

This stage is the most dangerous while it results in the joint's loss of shape, causes more pain, and can lead to complete disability to move.

The healthcare was, among the first institutions to promote the concept of Cultural Competence. And, this calls for a manner to talk to and behave with people from different walks of life.

Abortion as we all know is the deliberate removal of a foetus from the womb of a female resulting in the death of the foetus.

Diabetes patients present with very different management problems and unraveling the specific factors which are contributing to the individual's difficulty controlling weight and cholesterol and insulin level, and which of these factors it is feasible [...]

However, the current application of genetic engineering is in the field of medicine particularly to treat various genetic conditions. However, this method of treatment has various consequences to the individual and the society in general.

He is diagnosed with acute bronchitis and is prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics and anti-tussive medications. In most cases of acute bronchitis, antibiotics are not needed as the infection is caused by viruses.

The president of the hospice access alliance, Louise Armstrong, has stated that the cap on Medicare reimbursements needs to be lifted to ensure that access and quality to care is not diminished for those elderly [...]

The more repugnant the messages are to the audience to whom they are directed, the larger the compensation that the audience as a whole will require in exchange for receiving the message.

Literature review in an article helps in understanding the strength of the work carried out in the current research and the level of expertise of the authors.

George Sumner Huntington was the first person to give a clear, concise, and accessible report on what was to become the standard description of the disease, and therefore the disease is named after him.

As elderly patients need understanding, patience and genuine care, the nurse that would be assigned to them should be able to give this kind of care to the elderly patient.

Teenage is the time for experimentation, with a desire to be independent and try new and forbidden things like drugs or indulge in indiscrete sexual activity.

However, there is a strong case for helping terminally ill patients spend the remainder of their lives with care provided by the medical fraternity and with support from the state and insurance companies. And in [...]

This is necessary to examine the relationship between individual experience of disease and consumption, and, in the population, is essential to the calculation of attributable risk.

This leads to an increase in membrane polarization and inhibition of neurons Benzodiazepines act by amplifying the frequency of ion channel openings, thereby enhancing the function of GABA.

Formula feeding is a source of nutrition for children as the manufacturers usually attempt to duplicate mother's milk through using a multifaceted mixture of proteins, vitamins, fats, and sugars, thus able to meet a child's [...]

The AARP follows its health care model that aims to improve the quality and efficiency of health care assistance, to increase the accessibility to health care services for various populations, to increase the price and [...]

They could address the maternal mental health problems and help improve these, following the concept of decreasing the negative thinking of the mothers and in effect reducing the behavior problems of the child.

The role of a respiratory therapist include providing oxygen support, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, overseeing of the functioning of mechanical ventilators, medication of drugs for the lungs as well as ratting the functioning of the lungs.