Practice context: Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a company that provides health care services for a fee often monthly‚ bi-annually‚ or annually. It is also known as medical insurance‚ and acts as an intermediary between individuals‚ organizations‚ and health care professionals (including doctors‚ nurses‚ and hospitals). Health Maintenance Organizations is managed by medical doctors and nurses who work as case managers (HealthCare.gov‚ 2017). Case Management is a collective process that
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Health and social care services should be readily available to everyone within the UK‚ although people with learning disabilities may find access to such services extremely difficult‚ even in today’s society. This assignment looks at the issues surrounding access to health care services and aims to address the differences between health education and health promotion. It also highlights the legislation around health and social care and the importance for nurses to understand the inequalities in provision
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Case Study- The BBDE Health Center: A Case Study of Business Ethics 1. What decisions or actions taken by the individuals in this case are questionable? The first problems identified in this case was that the company had no laws and regulations. No one was willing to stand up to the CEO and tell him where he was going wrong. The CEO is more concern about the color of the carpet laid than setting corporate strategies. He ignored all the important issues in the
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context of health and social care in relation to a particular health issue. The approaches and intervention strategies that needed to support the individuals with specific needs and evaluation of services and systems for supporting such individuals is the main part of the report. For this‚ the case study of Ahmed and his family is used. Ahmed is the 15-year-old British Pakistani that is suffering from the problem of cerebral palsy. Moreover‚ the parents are also suffering from health problems as
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Mental Health Treatment in Prison Luke Myers Argosy University What are the services provided by mental health courts? Mental health courts are criminal courts set up to deal with people who have mental health issues or learning disabilities who have committed crimes. Instead of putting these people in jail‚ mental health courts (MHC’s) look to enroll them in community treatment to deal with their mental health problems so that they will not commit crimes again. “MHC’s have been created
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1) The purpose of occupational health psychology is to create an environment in which the workers’ needs‚ such as safety and health are sought after (E.Tetrick‚ 2017). Stress hardly occurs within isolation and usually has a ripple effect on all workers in the same environment‚ meaning that if one worker is experiencing depression then it will have a negative impact on co-workers as well. In the current globalized working environment‚ human capital is the main function of any organization and plays
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This case involves the Petitioner Whole Women’s Health and respondent John Hellerstedt the Commissioner of Texas Department of State Health Services. Whole Women’s Health argues that the constitutional right to abortion as upheld by the fourteenth amendment is being hindered by the two provisions of Texas’ House Bill 2 approved by the Texas Republican-majority state legislation in October of 2013. The court decides matters of abortion rights by using the substantial burden test to determine wither
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Case study one Introduction Source of the patient referral Patient was referred to me from the dentist. Medical problem Presented was a 62 year old female‚ patient is an asthmatic and has bronchitis. Social circumstances She previously smoked 70 per week‚ but has since cut this down to 3 per day‚ due to cost and health issues The patient doesn’t drink alcohol. The patient has a relatively healthy diet. Patients presenting problem
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INTRODUCTION: Adolescent / Youth Health is an important public health issue. Adolescent and Youth are defined as 10-19 and 15-24 years old by the World Health Organization‚ respectively. Adolescent / Youth Age was accepted that the transition from childhood to adulthood age‚ generally. Adolescents and Youths experience some of the changes in the physical‚ psychological‚ cognitive‚ social and economic areas (1). The University students constitute an original group with their specific features among
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sad that John was unable to attend the party but we were able to save him two plates of food for later. I was very pleased when several residents came up to me and commented how good my cake tasted. Before arriving at Prairie Winds‚ I was at a home health
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