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Following the American Psychologist Association’s Guidelines

The people of the United States suffer from several serious issues, all related to health care: millions go uninsured every year, health care is too expensive, and the quality of care is poor, especially for the price. The Patience Protection and Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, as it commonly known as, began addressing these issues. While several of the act’s promises have not come into effect yet, it has managed to extend healthcare to the repetitively uninsured. While many of the accomplishments that the act has already made, and aims to make, are no small feat, there are ...

Salvador Dali (1904-198) was a Spanish artist considered to be the icon of the Surrealist movement. Probably the most universally famous and highly regarded of the artists of the twentieth century, Salvador Dali was born in the town of Figueres, in Catalonia, Spain where his father held the position of notary public. Although well known as a painter of the Surrealist Movement, he was also a gifted photographer and film maker.
As a child, Dali was encouraged in his art by his family and in particular a friend of his father’s, a lawyer named Pepito Pichot, whose brother ...

Overview

A computer is an electronic device that accepts, manipulates and stores data and instructions. A computer is mainly made up of two components; the hardware and the software. The physical components such as the mouse, keyboard, monitor and the systems units are the hardware parts while the intangible part, the instructions that make the computer work is the software part. Computer software is a set of instructions that are written in a language that can be understood by the computer hardware that tells the computer hardware what to do. Computer software sometimes is referred to as computer programs, they control the ...

Introduction

The cost of health care in US has been rising for the past several years. According to Medicare report (2010), government budget on expenditures in the last two years has tripled compared with the amount spent in 1990s. In 2008 the government spending on health care was about $2.3 trillion which represents 16.2 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). According to this report, the percent is the highest among all the industrialized countries in the world. The annual rate of growth of government expenditure on health care is 4.4 percent and it is predicted to increase ...

The plight of the American woman Karen Dove, an uninsured lady depicted in the PBS video Critical Care, is unfortunately a common example of the horrendous status of the healthcare system policies and planning in the United States. After physicians had denied her consultation, treatment, and access she finally took it upon herself to initiate seeking medical help by contacting an organization dedicated to cancer. Should seeking and receiving adequate medical care in a modern ...

Public versus private insurance cover is a dynamic and stochastic process where individuals consider premiums, personal costs, and other preferences. The insurance amenities and restrictions in private insurers are different from public insurers that serve less healthy and wealthy population. The private and public insurance systems have different structures. In the private system, the insurance premiums take into account basic health risk of the insured and that of the dependants.
The patients that subscribe to Medicare receive inferior care for certain medical issues unlike the patients that use private insurance. The patients that use private health insurance have lower ...

Dr. Seuss is a part of every American child’s life. The Grinch is part of the Christmas watching tradition and a beloved character in his own right along with Rudolph and Frosty the Snowman. The Cat in the Hat is one of his best know stories and characters and the cat’s hat immediately congers images of the tale of the Cat and his little cats too. However, that is not his only character he invented, or even the most unusual, Dr. Seuss was ahead of his time creating irreverent off bet characters and societies that just did not fit ...

Report

Executive Summary
The economic evaluation of Medicare as system of efficiency in the U.S. insurance sector economy of scale is analyzed according to U.S. Senator Cantwell’s Affordable Care Act 2010, enacted as a reform measure to overhaul the existing Medicare fee-for-service payment system. The report addresses Medicare’s Value Payment Modifier (VPM) replacement of the former volume cost instrument used by the government agency, as well as the value-based index (VBI) to be used by Medicare providers within the national health care delivery system by 2017.
- Introduction
The report examines U.S. Senator Cantwell’s (2013) ...

Forecasting is the prediction of future events. This paper aims at discussing in details three qualitative forecasting techniques. The paper will also examine various advantages and disadvantages of each qualitative method discussed in this paper. The three qualitative methods which are to be discussed here include survey of customer’s intention, Delphi method and sales forecast method.

Informed opinion and judgment

Here forecasting is done by an individual through his/her own informed opinion. This implies that the validity of the forecast will entirely depends on the ability of the individual to make accurate judgment. This method is highly subjective hence it is prone ...

Research (compare and contrast) two automated hospital dispensing systems - PYXIS, OMNICELL, etc. List the pros and cons of each system.

AUTOMATED HOSPITAL DISPENSING SYSTEMS.

A hospital automation system is a set of elements put together to facilitate the processes and activities in a hospital. It’s mainly designed to eliminate the manual running of activities in a hospital. These systems can be designed in different ways and they operate in different ways but they are all aimed at achieving almost similar objectives (David & Brown 2010).
Among the many automated hospital dispensing systems are the PYXIS, OMNICELL which have products like the OMNICELL’s OMNIRX, ...

Introduction

Healthcare is an integral part of a nation’s well-being. Despite its importance, there has been an increasing trend in the costs of health care. With the current high national debt, health care reimbursement should be part of the equation ("Healthcare Reimbursement | Knowledge Hub | athenahealth", 2016). The policy makers, physicians, and patients are well aware of the steps they need to take to reduce the costs of health care by considering health insurance plans.
The insurance policies enable the doctors and other health practitioners to provide quality and efficient health care to the people. Health insurance payers are provided ...

Abstract

Health Insurance is a form of insurance where an individual is insured against the risk of paying medical expenses in case they are in need of various types of medical care. Health insurance may not appear beneficial especially when a person stays for many years without becoming sick or requiring any medical care attention. However, it is clear that health insurance is necessary for every individual as it comes with numerous benefits. These benefits include protection from running into a financial ruin, access to preventive and primary care services, access to follow-up care services, eligibility to options for offsetting ...

Fingerprint patterns are categorized into three main groups. These main patterns include loop pattern; whorl pattern; and arch pattern. Fingerprint patterns are used in forensic investigations of crimes. The fingerprint patterns are known to be unique to each individual; therefore, they help criminal investigators to identify criminals who are responsible for particular crimes (CSF, 2015). All individuals are required to submit their fingerprints to government authorities so that they can be used to identify them in future when need arises.
Loop patterns have ridges that flow to one side, then loop around, and exit the fingerprint pattern from ...

Poor Performer Evaluation

- What are the HR issues that arise in this scenario?
- Where the college being the employer, is concerned, the decision that is taken by an employee to drink or use drugs is that employee’s prerogative, but when the use contravenes with their ability to carry out their duties, then the Human Resource Manager of the college will have legitimate issues. These issues are the way in which the employee’s duties are performed, issues with safety and health, the conduct of the employee and safety issues in the workplace.
- Does the college have ...

Introduction:

Gum diseases are one of the common diseases in oral cavity and periodontitis is one of them. But In order to understand the meaning of periodontitis we need to know, what the periodontal tissue is.

Periodontium is “the alveolar bone, periodontal ligament, and gum surrounding and supporting a tooth”.

What is periodontitis?
The inflammation of any of the mentioned tissues around the tooth is called periodontitis. So what can cause periodontitis? Basically any inflammation is caused by bacterial infections, but what are the specific etiological factors of periodontitis? In general periodontitis almost refers to bad hygiene of oral cavity or to say more exact, the accumulation of plaque around the teeth which ...

U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM COMPARED TO AUSTRALIAN
The United States and the Australia follow very contrasting healthcare system. To highlight their best, and to learn from their shortcoming, it useful to compare and contrast the system. It will be useful to compare them according to their: accessibility; cost structure; quality; types and availability of the health care settings and services; healthcare quality and outcomes; and health care personnel.
Like the rest of the world, United States has both private and public insurers in their health care system. What makes is unique is the dominant role played by ...

The concepts of palliative care began with the hospice. Originally the hospice was a resting place for wary travelers in the 4th century. In fact the latin term for hospice means to conceal or alleviate symptoms without curing”. However, by the 19th century hospice’s religious areas established hospices as places for the dying in London and in Ireland (News Medical). End of life care is a “modern” idea that began in the 1950’s and was first written about by Dr. Cicely Saunders (Loscalzo, 2008). She described her feelings and ideas based on the feelings of dying patients. Dr. Saunders ...

An issue that was already decades old in a 1994 ethics article (Emanuel and Emanuel), the cost of end-of-life care is an issue that provides both an economic and actual definition of the limitations of medicine. Eventually, all patients die, but the question becomes what treatment and care should be administered to patients in their end-of-life stage. Therefore, this issue defines both limitations in medicine in that there are conditions that modern medicine have no treatment for, as well as limitations from the point of view of the inherent waste in spending limited medical dollars on treatment of patients so ...

Effects of Consumerism

Consumerism in Healthcare
Reform critics referred to consumerism as a disruptive force to effective and efficient healthcare delivery. Several issues are still left unaddressed in the healthcare sector such as full optimization of healthcare delivery, payment mechanisms, consumers acting as the reformers, and supply versus the shift in demand. These issues are driven by forces such as pervasiveness of technology, rise of transparency, globalization, and medical tourism, social media and inconvenient care models that in effect insinuate consumerism in the healthcare sector.

Care Received

Consumerism affects the quality of care received in terms of limiting the options available for the patients. ...

Medicare vs. Medicaid

Despite the fact that the United States of America is the wealthiest nation in the world, its healthcare system is nowhere near the best. For many people, health insurance is unaffordable, and there are millions of people who lack basic health insurance. As a result, there are many people who either die of treatable diseases, or overburden the health system by seeking medical attention when they are in a critical condition. Realizing the danger that lack of a proper healthcare system in the US may bring forth, the federal government has come up with a raft of measures aimed at lessening the burden ...

The First World War was a traumatizing event that caused people and artists to question the veracity of traditional values. Having experienced tremendous distress, people were thrown into a state of anxiety, which was marked by their struggle to find meaning in life. Society itself seemed to have succumbed into a state of cosmic insecurity, fueled by the bitterness and the disillusionment of the war. Individual and national psyches were marked by important, even radical changes, which the artists at the time, including the surrealist painters, successfully incorporated into their artworks. They embraced everything that was new, experimental and to some extent, ...

Kant’s ‘Critique of Pure Reason’

Immanuel Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason is generally accepted as the most influential work in “modern” Western philosophy. Coming at the end of the Enlightenment, and the opening of Romanticism, Kant’s great work offered a disciplined model for considering the great existential questions, such as whether or not God exists, whether there is an afterlife, a soul, etc. Reason, Kant argued, is the discipline by which such arguments, for or against, must proceed. Any argument that unduly relies on the theoretical, he reasoned, is highly suspect. Critique of Pure Reason offers provides a bridge between the traditional, religious orientation and ...

Information and Communication Teachnology

ABSTRACT
As telemedicine is used throughout the rural parts of Africa, there are many professionals and patients who find the entire process very beneficial because there is an allowance for a decrease in transmission of highly contagious diseases such as MRSA (Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus). If there are clinics that are found in locations surrounding rural Africa, there are strong concerns that patients will be able to transmit their diseases to other people who are otherwise healthy. With the use of telemedicine, the patients and the health care providers can see each other through a confined space and there is ...

Abstract

Medical care is an obligation of the government in the United States because all citizens are entitled to the access of healthcare services. Nonetheless, the healthcare programs are not only executed on the premise of providing health services alone; but such services are to be affordable as well. Medicare part D refers to the program where the United States federal government subsidizes the cost of drugs prescribed for the patients. It also covers the drugs and the associated insurance premiums, and all these are executed to benefit the healthcare beneficiaries. This paper analyzes the Medicare Part D and the ...

Overview

Successful development of products is an important cornerstone for the success of any firm. Thus, there exist significant incentives for the firms to introduce new and viable products to markets. Also, the payoff regarding financial success can help enhance a firm’s profitability and growth that is not achievable with existing services and products that could be nearing the maturity stage in their cycle. Finally, development of new products can be a source of important economies of scale for a firm (Rajiv and Naresh, 2008). In that view, Apple considers extending its product line and seeks to conduct a ...

[Economics]
As everyone knows, oil is considered to be a raw material. Though there are some unknown oil stocks, oil as well as other minerals is an exhaustive type of resource. Moreover, no matter what scientists say, or give any predictions, in the nearest future we will run out of this mineral. That is one of the reasons why we can observe the price gradually raising now. But to be honest, by 2020 this factor will not influence significantly the price of oil. The explanation to this is because the vast majority of world’s oil stocks have already ...

The paratransit sector offers complementary services to those of traditionally fixed route rail and road public transit systems. Taxis have traditionally been a major segment of paratransit services. Disruptions brought about by technological advancements, and the increasing clamor for the sharing economy poses a threat to traditional paratransit service providers. The most prominent of these technological disruptions include Uber and Lyft, which are taxi-hailing apps. These new initiatives face opposition from traditional taxi operators. Debate still rages on whether they create more jobs in the industry and the economy as a whole or they result in a net loss ...

Advantages of 4G network:

a. Higher speed: 4G LTE offers a faster connection to the Internet; it is ten times faster than the previous 3G, according to speed tests. The same applies to the speed of loading and unloading of data that can be between 50 and 60 Mbps (the rise) and 150 Mbps per second (the descent).
b. The above are estimates that, in theory, should be met but it depends on each operator, the contracted plan, and even geographic location .
c. Downloading applications and complex computer software are also agiler, exceeding 40 megabytes per second, depending on the location. Also, downloading ...

The element of nostalgia in the novel

Great Expectations is a novel that is based on elements of nostalgia. The arch typical nostalgic character is the doomed Miss Havisham, who lives in the past and cannot get over the jilting of her suitor – she leaves her crumbling house just as it was all those years ago. Pip longs for his dead parents since he is treated badly by his sister although he finds comfort in the kindly character of Joe Gargery, his sister’s husband. There is also an autobiographical sense of nostalgia coming from Dickens’ himself, especially with the Kent surroundings forming such an important part ...

a. Purpose of Managerial Accounting
Managerial accounting is the process of preparing accounts and management reports that provide timely and accurate statistical and financial information. Managers require such information in making short and long term decisions (Wild, Shaw and Chiappetta, 2013). Unlike financial accounting that produces annual reports used by external stakeholders, management accounting generates reports means for an internal audience and use.
The objective of management accounting is to improve on the effectiveness of both control functions and management planning. Management accounting serves four functions; cost control, cost evaluation, management planning and performance evaluation. It provides ...

Insurance Claim Rejection in the Middle East

Abstract
The rejection of insurance claims is quite rampant in the Middle East. Private health insurance is necessary for the millions of the expatriates who live in the Middle East. In the UAE, there is no comprehensive data on the rejection of claims. This study seeks to determine the prevalence of the rejection of health insurance claims in the UAE. This will be done by obtaining data from the health information management system at the hospital where the researcher works as a hospital manager. Data will also be obtained from the e-claim system. The data that will be obtained ...

Tuberculosis (TB) can be explained as an infectious disease caused by bacterium referred to as Mycobacterium tuberculosis. It affects the lungs primarily although it can spread it effects to the other organs such as lymphatic system, nervous system, and circulatory system. When the diseases are contracted, the bacteria multiply to cause pneumonia in the lungs with chest pains, prolonged cough as well as coughing of blood. The lymph nodes near the lungs and the heart enlarges. As the disease spread in the body, it encounters body immune system that prevents the entire spread of the disease to the other ...

Introduction

Healthcare is one of the basic needs for all of us. Once the primary needs like food and shelter are taken care of, the focus for any government shifts towards providing better healthcare for its citizens. As per the Indian constitution, healthcare system in India is primarily run by the states and union territories. Both the states and union territories are responsible for public health and standard of living respectively. India has a population of 1.2 billion. 44% of the children are malnourished and more than 400 million people live on less than $1.25 per day. This poses a big challenge ...

Slide 1: Canadian Health System

Slide 2: History: Canada Health System
1820: First medical school in Montreal.
1892: William Osler wrote “The Principles and Practice of medicine”, which served as the basic handbook for Canadian doctors for decades.
1946: Saskatchewan passed “Saskatchewan Hospitalization Act” to ensure free hospitalization.
1957: Canadian government created “ Hospital Insurance and Diagnostic Services Act” which covered 50% of all expenses.
1984: Canada Health Care Act was passed to start a publicly funded Medicare system.
Slide 3: Government Involvement
As per 1867 Constitution Act government was not responsible for Healthcare.
After 50 years of ...

Introduction

Healthcare in the United States encompasses a trajectory that emerges from reform legislations that promises to provide civic lessons and insights to the way the Congress should try to resolve the problems of healthcare delivery and quality across all regions of the country. However, each region has varying systems that deliver different levels of delivery, quality, cost and perceptions. These differences will be explored by looking at each of region’s level of access, cost, view of healthcare and healthcare providers, implemented local policies and about Obamacare. The discussion of differences by region is a fundamental and primary step in understanding ...

Introduction

There has been an increase in the demand for security. Nowadays, a sense of security may be considered as the next basic goal after the basic items which include food, shelter and clothing. Majority of the people requires economic and health security. A person with economic security will be able to satisfy the basic needs in the present and future. Economic risk refers to the probability of losing economic security. Historically, economic risk was managed through making informational agreements between the parties concerned. The insurer would compensate the injured party. The pooling concept was later formalized in the insurance industry. ...

Affiliated School;

Describing the differences between the three classes of fingerprints, which class does the fingerprint you photographed fall into? Justify your reasoning.
Fingerprints are patterns that develop on the fingers on an individual in the second trimester during foetal development. Unless one experiences serious burns they stay the same for a lifetime and they are distinct from person to another. According to the New Mexico Department of Health, (2008), there are three classes of fingerprints namely; whorls, arches and loops.
Whorls are the common types of fingerprints as it is approximated that 35% of all world’s population are ...

Abstract

Steve Jobs was well renowned CEO of Apple Inc. He is chosen for this paper due to his influential and entrepreneurial business and technological innovations. His achievements include introducing iPhone, iPad, iMac, iTunes, iPod and iCloud. Jobs had enormous excitement for product quality. He persisted on elegant plan and simplicity. Steve, not like other CEO of the companies, he became tremendously absorbed in details, particularly when it get nearer to a product and how the product was marketed. One of the reasons of reputation and fame of Steve Jobs was his magnetic personality and unbelievable showmanship, which he confirmed at ...

Abstract

Strongly influenced by Freud’s theories about the structure and the workings of the human psyche, the surrealist movement dived deeply into the exploration of the unconscious – hoping to find the essence of the human mind and spirit in an alternative reality. Salvador Dali is one of the main representatives of this movement – his works constantly defied the boundaries of reality and imagination. He was a prolific artist, always in search of new ways of creative expression. Due to his personal background, he was always attracted to the world of fantasy, which made him very suitable for the surrealist movement. ...

Marketing strategies for Over-The-Counter (OTC) medicines

Over-the-Counter (OTC) medicines are non prescription medicines that are sold to the consumers at grocery stores, convenience and pharmacies. A strong market for over the counter drugs exists in the less developed countries in which cases the OTC is the most practical method of distribution for medicines. In the developing countries such as Kenya, the market for OTC drugs accounts for a higher percentage of the total medicine sales compared to the developed nations like the United States where the market share for OTC is 8% while a country like Kenya accounts for over 60% of the total sale of pharmaceuticals which ...

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) and Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) are health schemes aimed at reducing the cost of healthcare by majoring on preventive care. In HMO, one chooses a preferred physician and can only see another one with a referral from the first. Its premiums are relatively lower. There are prepaid monthly premiums (Adler, 7). PPOs are more expensive, and the client can choose to be attended by other physicians outside the program. One pays for the bill then places a claim on the program (Bihari, 7-8).

These plans cover the client who has subscribed to the service and their next of ...

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

Introduction
The National Crime Victimization Survey is an agency in the United States supported by the Department of Justice to measure the amount and kinds of felonies people & units encounter in six month period after the interview. NCVS handles a workload of approximately 700 cases and respondents are surveyed two times a year for three years.
The major purpose of NCVS is to collect detailed information about victims of certain types of crimes. Some of the crimes surveyed include motor vehicle theft, burglary, theft, robbery, identity card thefts, assault rape, pocket pickers and school crimes to children between ...

Introduction

Increased health costs in the recent past have forced US government to come up with health care reforms that will help to reduce its expenditures on health care provision. These reforms are contained in the health care reform bill that was enacted in 2010 by President Barack Obama in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Cohn, 2010). Health care reforms have numerous pros and cons to both the government and the citizens. The democrats support these reforms while the republicans oppose on different grounds. This paper discusses the benefits and costs that come with these health care reforms ...