Nurses act as the hub of communication, relaying and interpreting information between physicians, caregivers, family members and patients. The ability to establish effective communicat ...
Women's health refers to the health of girls, which differs from that of men in many unique ways. Women's health is an example of population health, where health is defined by the planet Healt ...
Addressing the medical issues of homeless people is the health equity challenge of our time. The most recent US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) report on homelessness, published in 2015, estimated that about 564 000 homeles ...
New models of care are being designed to improve value and access and reduce cost in the United States. The practitioners of integrative medicine will be leaders in this movement because its philosophy places health creation as its highe ...
Improving health outcomes relies on patients’ full engagement in prevention, decision-making, and self-management activities. Health literacy, or people’s ability to obtain, process, communicate, and understand basic health information ...
Medical errors are now the third leading cause of death in the United States (Makary & Daniel, 2016). The widely acknowledged prevalence of avoidable patient harm and adverse outcomes has led to routine use of the term healthcare quality, ...
Healthcare involves diagnosis, prevention, cure and rehabilitation of patients affected by one or more health disorders. Healthcare industry is synonymously known as medical industry or health economy. It is one of the fastest emerging industries ...
The medical home concept was introduced by the American Academy of Pediatrics in 1967 as a model of primary care for children with special health care needs. It was intended to help coordinate multidisciplinary services from diverse sour ...
Constitutional law consists primarily of the interpretation of the federal constitution, and secondarily of the states' constitutions, which are pertinent to the case before a court. They involve such areas as guarantees to individuals of ...
For Americans to enjoy optimal health—as individuals and as a population—they must have the benefit of high-quality health care services that are effectively coordinated within a strong public health system. In considering the role of ...
The basic rights provided to citizens under most of the constitutional amendments have been extended to the inmates in our prisons. The source of the right to refuse treatment can be traced to case law beginning in the mid-1970s. During this time ...
This perspective arose from experience conducting an empirical study of organisations created within the English National Health Service to foster innovation for patient benefit, such as new technologies and models of care. Our discussio ...
The Journal is published by the Society for Policy Modeling as a forum for analysis and debate on policy issues. The Journal focuses upon the economic, social and political developments that now shape the world economy and the policies needed to i ...
Simulations (and models, too) are abstractions of reality. Often they deliberately emphasize one part of reality at the expense of other parts. Sometimes this is necessary due to computer power limitations.A simulator is a device that may use any ...
Simulations (and models, too) are abstractions of reality. Often they deliberately emphasize one part of reality at the expense of other parts. Sometimes this is necessary due to computer power limitations.A simulator is a device that may use any ...
Simulations (and models, too) are abstractions of reality. Often they deliberately emphasize one part of reality at the expense of other parts. Sometimes this is necessary due to computer power limitations.A simulator is a device that may use any ...
The Journal is published by the Society for Policy Modeling as a forum for analysis and debate on policy issues. The Journal focuses upon the economic, social and political developments that now shape the world economy and the policies needed to i ...
The Journal is published by the Society for Policy Modeling as a forum for analysis and debate on policy issues. The Journal focuses upon the economic, social and political developments that now shape the world economy and the policies needed to i ...
Scientific modelling is a scientific activity, the aim of which is to make a particular part or feature of the world easier to understand, define, quantify, visualize, or simulate by referencing it to existing an ...
As you age, the tissue and structure of your breasts begin to change. A premenopausal adult woman's breasts are made up of fat, tissue, and mammary glands. As menopause approaches, levels of the h ...