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    Managed Care

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    dramatically with increased complexity and significance to the healthcare market. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the managed care industry and examine how organizations try to control costs. Managed Care Organizations is a partnership of health care providers whose purpose is to contract with an institution (Crosson & Tollen 2010). The contracting institution can be an establishment‚ a coverage group‚ Medicare‚ Medicaid‚ a union‚ an individual‚ or any connection of these kinds. In order

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    California Earthquake

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    The article‚ Earthquake Outlook for the San Francisco Bay Region 2014–2043‚ explores the situation of California and its active faults; Also‚ it talks about the possibility of a big earthquake happening before 2043 in the state. The experts believe that there is 98% chance that one or more earthquakes will have a magnitude of at least 6.0‚ which is potent and dangerous; It can make damage to a great extent; furthermore‚ there is a 51% of probability that the earthquake could strike the San Francisco

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    Anthropogenic Hazard

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    Anthropogenic hazard Anthropogenic hazards or human-made hazards can result in the form of a human-made disaster. In this case‚ anthropogenic means threats having an element of human intent‚ negligence‚ or error; or involving a failure of a human-made system. It results in huge loss of life and property. It further affects a person’s mental‚ physical and social well-being. Sociological hazards Crime Crime is a breach of the law for which some governing authority (via the legal systems) can ultimately

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    Whether the success of a community depends upon people’s willingness to limit their personal interest has long been a debate since an organized nation came into being. As for me‚ limiting the personal interest is necessary and vital for the long-term benefit of a group. Edward Snowden‚ who is an American computer specialist‚ worked for NSA and leaked the details of top-secret U.S. government spy program for he believes that the program harms the individuals’ rights. But the U.S. government defended

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    Analyze the extent to which TWO of the following influenced the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. Jacksonian economic policy Changes in electoral politics The Second Great Awakening The Westward movement Background information/Intro: Thesis: Both Jacksonian economic policy and westward movement in America were indicative of the development of democracy between 1820 and 1840. It was in this antebellum era that the United States‚ with economic and sectional changes

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    Artiom Zacharevskij Discuss the extent to which a vegetarian diet is healthy. To say till what extent a vegetarian diet is healthy. First of all need to understand what vegetarian diet is and what is mean to be healthy. Among the areas of non-traditional food‚ vegetarian diet is one of the oldest and most common. Vegetarianism - is an ancient healing nutrition system‚ which has a deep philosophical meaning‚ and assuming certain lifestyle. Healthy means - a state of complete physical‚ mental and

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    Geological Hazard

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    Geological Hazards Geological Hazards are naturally occurring or man-made geologic conditions capable of causing injuries or other health impacts‚ loss of property damage‚ loss of livelihoods and services‚ social and economic disruption‚ or environmental damage. It had been divided into many types. The two main types of man-made geological hazards are collapsing of buildings and forest fire which happening recently. Now‚ I’m going to talk about the collapsing of buildings first. The structure of

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    Evaluate the extent to which Freud’s theory of psychosexual development can help us to understand a client’s presenting issues Introduction Freud’s approach to understanding human behaviour – psychoanalysis – has had a profound effect on psychology. His approach is one of many that share some common assumptions‚ while differing fundamentally in others. Contemporaries of Freud‚ such as Jung and Adler were inspired by Freudian theory‚ but emphasised different issues in human development and experience

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    Natural Hazards and Natural Disasters A natural hazard is a threat of a naturally occurring event will have a negative effect on humans.   This negative effect is what we call a natural disaster.  In other words when the hazardous threat actually happens and harms humans‚ we call the event a natural disaster. Natural Hazards (and the resulting disasters) are the result of naturally occurring processes that have operated throughout Earth’s history.  Effects of Hazards Hazardous process of all

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    Nepal Earthquake

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    Nepal earthquake The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake)[6][9] killed more than 8‚800 people and injured more than 23‚000. It occurred at 11:56 NST on 25 April‚ with a magnitude of 7.8Mw[1] or 8.1Ms[2] and a maximum Mercalli Intensity of IX (Violent). Its epicenter was east of the district of Lamjung‚ and its hypocenter was at a depth of approximately 15 km (9.3 mi).[1] It was the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since the 1934 Nepal–Bihar earthquake.[10][11][12]

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