Abstract This brief was prepared for the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) hearing on rural health. It serves as an analysis of the health issues affecting the Delta Region (DR) of Arkansas; also known as the Mississippi Alluvial Plain. This…
Essays on Health Care
Access to quality healthcare services is important in promoting and maintaining health, preventing and managing the disease, reducing disability and premature death, and achieving health equity for all Americans (Access to health services, 2019). Though oral healthcare is necessary for everyone yet, there are several…
In our world today, the second most leading cause of death is cancer which was recorded in 2015 (Zuber, 2019). The two health disparities that are associated with this cause of death is socioeconomic status and underserved populations (“Examples of Cancer Health Disparities”, n.d.). Socioeconomic…
It was a crowded coffee shop and I was nervous to make an appearance. I had just started taking a course in American Sign Language (ASL) and one of my very first homework assignments was to attend a Deaf event- a social gathering where you…
There are four phases to enforce translational research. However, there is a hidden phase. The preliminary phase (T0) involves all activities prior to clinical research (Gannon, 2014). Typically, T0 could be combined with T1 phase (Gannon, 2014). Phase one (T1) research involves groundwork and pre-clinical…
Problem Statement For years now, discrimination within the criminal justice system has indubitably contributed towards the mass incarceration of African Americans. During the late 60’s President Lyndon Johnson declared a war on crime, however, this was nothing more than a discreet way target the black…
Nursing today is not what it was many years ago. Over the years the practice of nursing has adapted to the changes in medicine, changes to the health care system and the changes in maintaining infection control. With these changes, the care that the nurses…
Introduction In today’s technologically advanced world change in the healthcare system is inevitable. The healthcare system has to equally adjust to meet the current world needs. This change will automatically require health experts such as nurses to equally adapt to the new trends which may…
Each company must have a shared objective, solid administration, and an engaged strategic all individuals from the company are progressing in the direction of. To have an impact and be regarded, a company must have a sound structure and be very much run. This paper…
The field of psychology can be supremely helpful in reducing health care disparities especially for minority individuals in America whose voices often go unheard. Findings from a 2002 medical journal stated that Spanish speaking Hispanic patients were far less likely than English speaking Hispanic patients…
Abstract Change theories are useful in healthcare sector, but they can also be applied in other sectors such as environment, agriculture, and economic sectors. This study covers on the diffusion of innovations (DOI) theory, which one of the change theories in nursing, where it demonstrates…
Even though sex and sexuality are endlessly praised by media and society, adolescents are given little to no guidance on how to properly venture into adult sexuality successfully while avoiding the effects of STDs/STIs and unplanned or unwanted pregnancies. Policy Solution: A solution to the…
As early as 1987, many authors have associated the terminology ‘cosmetic surgery tourism’ under the umbrella of medical, health and wellbeing tourism (Goodrich and Goodrich, 1987), (Resiman, 2010) and (Jones, 2011). Since then, it has been known as ‘aesthetic tourism’, ‘plastic surgery tourism’, ‘surgery tourism’…
Cerebral palsy is described as a, “group of permanent disorders affecting the movement and posture,” and a person’s ability to maintain balance. These disturbances can appear, “in the developing fetal or the infant brain,” and is the, ‘most common physical disability of children”. Most often…
The purpose of this study was to identify the key success factors of medical tourism using the case of Seoul Guide Medical. Medical tourism refers to the phenomenon of travelling across national borders intentionally to access a variety of medical treatments, especially modern medical treatment….
