Essays Tagged: "Primary care"

Legalization of Marijuana

ine, or any other illness for which marijuana provides relief.(B) To ensure that patients and their primary care givers obtain and use marijuana for medical purposes upon the recommendation of a physi ...

(4 pages) 93 0 4.0 Jan/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

This essay is a child observation project, the format used is APA, which is the standard format for many social sciences class.

s then 2 minutes with Jake were excluded from this study as well as Jake's family members and other primary care givers. The purpose of this study was to determine which category of people spent the m ...

(5 pages) 391 0 4.8 Nov/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Describe and critically assess research in to the effects of deprivation on the subsequent development of children.

ad a 'guiltless', i.e. affectionless character. 9 of these 14 had experienced separation from their primary care giver in childhood, whereas only 2 of his control group had. However, 14 out of 44 does ... factor of all was the quality of substitute care that was given after the attachment bond with the primary care giver was broken.Goldfarb (1943) studied children who were fostered or adopted after th ...

(9 pages) 133 0 5.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

A Medical Student

owth bothered me. I needed a career that helped a large number of people, emphasized prevention and primary care rather than tertiary care, and would continually challenge and motivate me to improve. ...

(3 pages) 94 0 4.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

Research done on hypochondriasis

nd has a very poor prognosis rate. The other reason is that hypochondriasis is usually found in the primary care field and many times may go untreated.The main treatments for hypochondriasis are small ... gs, 16(1). 9-22.Chrisman, S., Hardy, E., & Warmbrodt, L. (2001). Recognizing hypochondriasis in primary care. The Nurse Practitioner 26(6). 26-43.

(1 pages) 42 0 3.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Skills of a Primary Health Care Manager

rming measures of health disadvantage and inequities, a reformist gaze seems to have settled on the primary care sector. Simultaneously, in literature about this area, whether intended or not, primary ... or. Simultaneously, in literature about this area, whether intended or not, primary health care and primary care's managements, are increasingly interchanged which yield mess while implementing PHC th ...

(17 pages) 582 1 4.1 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Blood-Borne and Infectious Diseases: Hepatitis C

This assignment is based on a case study selected from HIV/Viral Hepatitis a Guide for Primary Care (Dore et al. 2001).For the purpose of this case study I will identify the patient discu ... ., Hoy, J., Kidd, M., McCoy, R., Mijch, A. & Strasser, S. 2001, HIV/Viral Hepatitis A Guide for Primary Care, National Capital Printing, Canberra.Hamilton, M., Kellehear, A. & Rumbold, G. 2001 ...

(13 pages) 123 1 5.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Advanced Practice Nurses and Domestic Violence

Advanced Practice Nurses like other primary care providers, have an obligation to advocate for abused patients. Specialization of domest ... , research, and daily practice of domestic violence prevention and screening while attending to the primary care needs of 80% of the ambulatory patients and already have health prevention as a strong ... stic violence would identify those women who are victims and begin empowering them (Willson, 1998). Primary prevention begins with asking patients about domestic violence by raising their awareness. N ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jul/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

The Medical Model of Health

c circumstances. (Barry 2000)Although recognition of and sensitivity to these risks have increased, primary preventive efforts, the cornerstones of pediatric practice, have failed to keep pace with ch ... tric practice, have failed to keep pace with changing circumstances. On the contrary, the pediatric primary-care clinician is asked to shoulder an ever greater burden in reducing the effects of social ...

(13 pages) 246 0 5.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Dentist

A dentist is the primary care professionalism for the soft and hard tissues of the mouth. A dentist provides care lik ...

(1 pages) 15 0 0.0 Apr/2001

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Literature Review Of Birth

d to the sociology of childbirth is based on pre-experimental design using one-shot interviews with primary care providers or their clients. Rothman (1983) attempts to understand the role of the home ... ral trends in ideology. Sakala (1993) combines a small meta-analysis of cesarean rate research with primary research consisting of in-depth, focused interviews with fifteen midwives to assess their at ...

(1 pages) 10 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Virtual house calls

all would not be for me. However I am sure there are others out there that would welcome it.Being a caregiver it might be beneficial due to the fact I would take measurements, temperature, blood press ... ents, temperature, blood pressure among other things and relay them to the physician myself. Taking care of another person, especially if the person is bed ridden and not able to get to the doctor, ma ...

(2 pages) 19 0 5.0 Jul/2007

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Medical Plan Comparison

A type of managed care healthcare plan is Point of Service (POS. POS employees can choose their own Primary care physician (PCP) , these physicians agree to provide services to them at discounted cost ... similar to Health Maintenance Organization HMO plans. Health plans let employees choose his or her primary care physician and Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plan and they let employee go out-o ...

(4 pages) 38 0 5.0 Jan/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

Nature vs. Nurture. A Comprehensive Evaluation

ry believe that an individual is largely effected by their interpersonal relationship, usually with primary care-taker. They support the idea that each person is shaped by the environment that they ar ... previously thought that all cognitive development could only come from the interaction with their primary caretaker. Information has been gathered in the understanding of how children develop proper ...

(6 pages) 77 0 0.0 Mar/2009

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Psychological Theories & Authors

Access to Healthcare

le will even die. This could possibly be prevented if these people had insurance and could get to a primary care doctor. We have people who survive cancer because it was caught in time to treat it, bu ... roved for racial and ethnic minorities groups. We know that those individuals, who have access to a primary care provider in a continuous basis, have better health outcomes and longer life expectancie ...

(3 pages) 51 0 0.0 Dec/2009

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

What Factors Will Influence Whether A Child

of the attachment theory is that a young child must create a stable relationship with at least one primary care provider in order to develop normal social and emotional development for future relatio ... e child is directly being exposed to the unpleasant situation or even indirectly which involves the primary care giver being highly affected by this situation therefore may act insensitively towards t ...

(8 pages) 73 1 3.0 Mar/2010

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology