Examination of the "Vitality Approach", health model proposed by the Canadian government
Essay - 3 pages - Political science
Throughout recent decades, a number of health models and approaches have emerged, aiming to help individuals to live a healthier life. Models like the Vitality Approach, have attempting to provide a theoretical approach that cover a wide range of health and fitness aspects,...
Essay on models of health such as Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig and living well, naturally- Select and examine the model that best reflects your own personal approach to health
Tutorials/exercises - 3 pages - Educational studies
During recent decades, a number of health models and diet programs have emerged, and intended to help people to live a better, healthier and happier life. In this respect, the media have focused on Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and other well- knows diet methods, as a source of inspiration...
The good, the bad, and the ugly: Health care comparisons of three nations
Case study - 8 pages - Educational studies
Out of the three nations I chose to examine, Europe proved to have the best and most cost effective health care overall. While studying Europe, I mostly analyzed the UK's system, though I can say that most - if not, all - of the health care in other countries throughout Western...
Why international agreements are necessary to protect environmental health and community health?
Case study - 4 pages - Educational studies
Environmental health refers to the elements present in the environment that affect and influence human public health. As established by the WHO Regional Office for Europe, the United Nations health agency, Environmental health refers to both direct pathological effect...
Eat, Think, Play: A after School Health Education Program
Essay - 6 pages - Educational studies
“Eat, Think, Play” is an interactive after school health education program dedicated to helping high school students build and promote a healthy lifestyle. We work to help students construct skills necessary to make good decisions regarding physical activity and eating a...
The healthcare system in the US
Essay - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The system of health insurance emerged gradually in the States at the beginning of the twentieth century and significantly spread all over by the nation by the middle of the twentieth century. The beneficial effects of such systems are undeniable, they allow access to care and 'equity...
Empirical investigation on the determinants of corporate dividend policy. Sectors considered: 'Food and drugs retailers' and 'Health care equipment and services'
Thesis - 7 pages - Finance
The Corporate Dividend policy, also called the Dividend Puzzle (Black, 1976) has always beensubjected to a lot of studies since, at least, the paper of Modigliani and Miller in 1961. The work ofthese authors stated that, in a frictionless world, when the firm has a constant investment policy,its...
Contrasting and comparing the ethics of the healthcare system in the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America by means of the different moral philosophies
Essay - 7 pages - International relations
I'll be going over 3 different health care systems in 3 different countries; the Netherlands, Denmark and the United States of America. For each country I will give a brief explanation of the current health care system and then I will go over the advantages and disadvantages keeping...
A youth friendly services program in Baltimore to promote better health
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
HIV/AIDS, Chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis are very present within the Baltimore City community and it affects the general population as a whole. These numbers and figures represent the known cases of these infections however, how many more individuals are affected and still unaware? The steps...
Global health-care
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The image of cities seems somewhat paradoxical. While economically and socially developed cities are often considered a place of employment, infrastructure and support they are also considered responsible for undermining environment and health. Cities have the reputation of being dirty,...
The Women's health movement and the women's rights movement: A shared history
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
The women's health movement and the women's rights movement share a close relationship. In their work Complaints and Disorders, The Sexual Politics of Sickness (1973), Barbra Ehrenreich and Deidre English assert that the medical system is “strategic” to both the oppression and...
Contemporary normative assumptions about power and the rise of public health
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Post- Nietzschian scholarship explores the structural role of power. These authors assume that power is embedded in a complicated system that constrains or enables actors. Previous authors, such as Machiavelli and Kautilya, rested their claims on the inherent power of the sovereign. Moreover, the...
Universal health care and the impact of the patient protection and affordable care Act of 2010
Thesis - 9 pages - Administrative law
Universal Health Care is a system, where the government of a nation interferes in the health care process, to ensure that every citizen or resident has access to required medical facilities and services. Germany has one of the oldest Universal Health Care systems. It was...
Dutch health care system
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Universal Health Care refers to access to affordable and high-quality health care to everyone who needs it. This system of health care is commonly known as a single payer system. The Dutch system provides “The dose of efficiency and equity that the current health...
Is there a right to health in Europe?
Thesis - 4 pages - Social, moral & civic education
In opinion surveys, European citizens put health, that is to say, the protection against risks of illness, at the peak of their concern. However, health is not defined in terms of European law. The European Commission has just recommended harmonization, without specifying what could...
Health heels
Presentation - 5 pages - Services marketing
We have used a Refutational approach for the promotion of our product as it would come in the market and would come into competition with the other brands within the next 2-3 months. A COMBINATION OF CENTRAL AND PERIPHERAL ROUTE in which we have clearly mentioned about all the attributes of the...
Effectiveness of health services in the developing world
Essay - 5 pages - Management
Delivering medicine to the world's poorest people is a challenge. Hot, poor places such as Tanzania have many microbes but microscopic health budgets. Because they cannot afford adequate health care, poor people are sick a lot of time (The economist, 17/8/2002). Another report...
Health care: A political issue
Thesis - 3 pages - Social, moral & civic education
What to do about healthcare in our nation is a much debated topic in current politics. Questions arise concerning the availability, cost, and quality of healthcare for American citizens. In recent years, citizens have seen the cost of health services skyrocket. Healthcare insurance offered...
Factors that determine the health of a Nation's economy
Thesis - 3 pages - Economy general
A budget deficit occurs when the government spends more money than it brings in. Every year the government prepares an annual budget and this budget assumes that a certain amount of money comes in through taxes and other sources. The government then spends the money on a large group of programs...
Health concepts
Essay - 3 pages - Medical studies
When going to the doctor's office or hospital many things are going through an individual's head. The individual is most likely experiencing some very high anxiety at this point, not knowing what to expect. The anxiety can come from the pain and suffering, financial concerns, or numerous other...
An organic nation: Do conventional rearing methods pose a risk to human health?
Thesis - 1 pages - Medical studies
Consumers are becoming increasingly concerned about how food is produced and how its production affects its safety. Recently, there has been growing alarm expressed over the relationship between human bacteria's increasing resistance to treatment with antibiotics and antibiotic residues in meat...
The persistent health weaknesses in prison
Thesis - 7 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Successive reforms have attempted to promote equal treatment for inmates and the general population, but it appears that access to health care remains problematic. Section A of this document will study the living conditions of the detainees and their health, and section B will focus...
Public health and environment
Thesis - 6 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Public health and the environment seem related and the search for causes of diseases therefore takes place through the study of the characteristics of geographic settings. Of course, the geography of health has undergone a strong evolution in time. New horizons in the field were in...
Impact of information technology in the world of health
Tutorials/exercises - 7 pages - Medical studies
In the world of health, information technology is a real challenge. Internal communication is the key factor for success in a medical organization. For example: the physicians must be reachable at any time, and must constantly be able to ascertain the health of their patients and...
The effects of work on health
Thesis - 4 pages - Management
The World Health Organization defines health as a state of total well being. This includes the physical, social and mental health of the employee. The state of well-being cannot be defined as the mere absence of disease or infirmity. Occupational hazards may have many adverse...
Patient's history of health and healing: The many causes and cures of the ailments of Samuel Pepys
Thesis - 5 pages - Medical studies
Samuel Pepys epitomized the medical beliefs of the 17th century British patient. In his 1663 diary he chronicled his diseases and noted the perceived causes and treatments of those diseases. Pepys believed there could be multiple causes for disease, including religion, humoral imbalance, and the...
Erasing the black lines: An examination of a personal behavior change through the perspective of health behavior theories
Thesis - 2 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Gripping my Chanel “Espresso,” I outlined my lower eyelid. The process took only three minutes at most and was part of my routine every morning. This behavior began when I was fourteen, just after a couple weeks in high school. I only began to reconsider using eyeliner six years later...
To what extent has the N.H.S. fulfilled its commitment to equal health care for all? - published: 15/01/2009
Essay - 5 pages - Social, moral & civic education
Health affects every aspect of life, and it not surprising that health care is a major focus for social concern. Governments have been aware of the importance of the population's access to health care for a very long time and began to intervene in this sense even before 1900,...
Why did Clinton Health Security Act of 1993 failed despite the opportunity to reform?
Thesis - 6 pages - Political science
Reforming the US health care system was one of the top priorities of the presidential battle in 1992 and William Jefferson Clinton managed to appear as the most competent candidate to deliver a comprehensive plan to solve this problem. Since the late 1970's, the country was facing problems...
The 'OneWorld' health model and the prospects for future development of therapeutics for infectious disease of the developing world
Thesis - 15 pages - Medical studies
Despite the vast improvements in health care and prevention of infectious diseases in the developed world, six out of ten deaths in the developing world can still be directly attributed to infectious disease. Diarrheal diseases, lower respiratory infections, malaria, measles, TB, and...
