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Frequency of Urinary Tract Infections in Adults and the Elderly
With the increase in knowledge in healthcare fostered by huge investments in research, time has come to develop a strong intervention framework to combat the prevalence of urinary tract infections (UTI). Adults and the elderly are more vulnerable to such infections. Unlike in younger adults, where it is hard to find a distinction between symptomati...
How the Economics of Health Care Impacts Current Nursing Salaries
Health economics is a branch of medicine that deals with how effective and efficient the health care and health provision are. Health economics covers a certain scope of issues, including the demand and supply in health care, as well as various influences of health among others. The economics of healthcare has a variety of influences in different a...
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (also known as a disease of motor neurons, Lou Gehrig's disease) is a slowly progressive, incurable degenerative disease of the central nervous system, which is characterized by the defeat of both upper (motor cerebral cortex) and bottom (anterior horns of the spinal cord and nuclei of the cranial n...
Bipolar Disorder
Introduction Bipolar disorder refers to a type of mental disorders that are most apparent through extremities in mood shifts, from extreme happiness to extreme sadness. Other terms for the disorder are manic-depressive illness and bipolar disaffective disorder. Bipolar affects a person's ability to carry out daily tasks. In the absence of proper d...
Chronic Illness Resource Paper
The Internet offers people who struggle with chronic diseases a variety of resources that can be beneficially used. Without a doubt, the necessity of the online sources in the question grows since, nowadays, the majority of people use websites in order to find the required information. It is also the fastest way to obtain important knowledge, speci...
Infectious Disease
The diseases are considered infectious when many people can contaminate from a single individual if one does not initiate treatment in time. Diseases can be contagious regardless of being viral or respiratory. Pertussis, which is a contagious respiratory tract infection, and measles, which is a viral illness, are considered such and, thus, occur wo...
Emerging Healthcare Quality Model
In the conditions of the market economy, when care provided by the practitioners and clinics is perceived as a commodity, the quality of the latter becomes especially important. In turn, the governmental structures implement measures that focus on its improvement, which results in the emergence of the new trends in healthcare. As a result, the qual...
Acute Prostatitis, Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy, and Prostate Cancer
The clinical presentation of acute prostatitis, benign prostatic hypertrophy, and prostate cancer are markedly different. Nevertheless, patients cannot always differentiate between these three conditions. No less serious are the problems they face in relation to self-management, education, and follow-ups. Consequently, one of the primary obligation...
Addiction and Obsessions
Introduction Habits are often seen as harmless until they develop into addictions with serious psychological or physical effects on the individuals. Over the past years, however, countless number of people have faced the problem of defining an addiction in order to discern the point at which a habit can be considered harmful, and thus diagnosed as ...
Drugs and Alcohol Addiction
People ruin their lives in a number of ways, and addiction is one of them. Scientists still disagree as to why exactly some people are at more risk of addiction development than others, but they all are convinced that this dangerous habit can and should be dealt with. A person can be addicted to drugs, alcohol or sometimes both, which is often refe...
Coronary Heart Attack Prevention
Intervention Plan Summary Coronary heart events are potentially lethal conditions. Treatment of atherosclerosis of the heart arteries is expensive and lacks effectiveness if preventive strategies are ignored (Libby, 2013). Thus, prophylactic interventions for coronary heart disease are both effective and compulsory. Risk factors philosophy allows h...
Healthcare Systems
During the last decades, the state of affairs in healthcare systems has been the subject to numerous brisk debates among experts, politicians and ordinary citizens in different countries all over the world. To improve the situation in this sphere, policy-makers make certain steps. To illustrate, in the USA, health care reform (Obamacare) was launch...