...Care Market-Blood Donation Health Care Market- Blood Donation According to Wikipedia, blood is a specialized bodily fluid that delivers necessary substances to the body’s cells, such as nutrients and oxygen, and transports waste products away from those same cells (Wikipedia, 2011). There has been a high demand for blood, all types of blood. Statistically speaking someone in the United States needs blood every two seconds (Rare Blood Types, 2010). Due to the high need for blood, scarcity plays a role with blood donation. This paper will discuss how scarcity resources influence the market, and the choices stakeholders are forced to make. The essay will also relay the economic flows that may affect the health care market, the causes of change in supply and demand and the affects of equilibrium price and quantity, and the pricing decisions for blood donations with elasticity or inelasticity. A resource is considered scarce when its availability is not enough to meet its demand. Scarcity is based on the idea that oftentimes a limited supply of goods or services comes up against an ever increasing demand for it, and that ever effort must be made to ensure its proper utilization and distribution to avoid inefficiency (International Society for Complexity, Information, and Design, 2005). Blood is needed for many individuals, whether it is for someone that has trauma, needed surgery, needed blood transfusion, cancer patients, etc. More than 38,000 blood donations are needed...
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...THE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF ADVERTIZING FOR BLOOD DONATION Meskerem B. Alemu ENG 115 ENGLISH COMPOSITIONS STRAYER UNIVERSITY Cathy G.Para April 25, 2013 Introduction Donating blood is one of a voluntary and interesting people they can doing at the minimum age of starting from 15 and above, and especially the youngest people involved in voluntary activities, it takes just a few time and noting affect by any donor person health. It is a great deal of emphasis placed on helping others in high school and different organization. Example, many schools require students to perform volunteering in various activities prior to graduation, the one activities is to donated blood, And in different organization employees of all ages require to helping people they are volunteering to donate blood too, in this case government agencies including military services expect involved this volunteer services, specially military department is a great location to get blood, so government should be make advertisement about blood donation in every public area. The major cause to advertising blood donation As public relation specialist, advertising is one part of the task that he/she does for succeeding the mission and vision of a certain issue, institution or organization. From the situation given on the second point, there have been many campaigns in order to promote blood donation over the last thirty years (APA, 2013). To give them Awareness The purpose and focus of these advertisements...
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...Nowsdays, organ donation is a great concern. Organ transplantation is medical procedures are come to agreement between not only doctor and patient but also relations a third person-the organ donor. There are two ways of donation: after death and living donation. Organs and tissues that can be transplanted are heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, pancreas and eye tissue, heart valves, skin and bone tissue. Besides, blood, cord blood, bone marrow and kidney, which can be performed by a living donor. Some people think mandatory law is necessary because that can help people and reduce of black market, where sales illegal organs. However, some other ones disapprove that because of their rights be violated and their families want to keep the body completely. Both sides of this complex issue will be discussed in this essay. The most important reason of donation organs after die is that can help many people, even if maybe can save or improve their life. In 2013, 34 deceased South Australians donors, who contribute to the Australia wide total of 319 whose generosity benefited 1122 recipients, which means one donor can help not only one person but also several people. According to the Australia Advertise news, there are 1500 people are on Australian organ transplant waiting lists at any one time. Moreover, people have some milestone in transplantation. For examples, the first successful kidney transplant from a deceased donor at Queen Elizabeth hospital, Adelaide, Australia in 1985 and first...
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...Final Essay Nicholas Barnby COM/155 December 8th, 2012 Final Essay Politicians and religious leaders often use messages of fear to convince their supporters that their stances and beliefs are faultless. Throughout history there have been people within positions of power using a specific way to voice their ideals to the masses so that the public can believe in their cause. There are a number of different tools that these people have that can coerce the population in to following the individuals in these seats of power. Usually, the person in power can be a very charming person and has no issues with speaking in a public forum. Natural public speakers can very easily slide into these positions with ease. Over time, the two main seats of power are found within a political and religious setting. At times, the two different factions have combined, making the position of power much more controlling than ever before. With the use of manipulation through fear, political and religious leaders have been able to use this particular method. This way of control is nowhere near a new tactic. In the beginning of life, there is always the aggressor within a group of living organisms. The human race has evolved over time, but there are some, almost instinctual tick that keeps them breaking down into an alpha mentality. The control over the pack using violence or oppression is nothing more than control through fear. Bullying is an example of control through fear that is used within...
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...us that controlling the world’s organ market would be difficult, but trying to manage the illegal market is just as difficult. MacKay closes the essay by asking the audience to look at their morals and asking if they could tell someone that he/she has to die because organ is wrong; or a person must remain in poverty for the same reason. Although her arguments are very good, she falls short on a few arguments. When we look at possible problems of controlling the organ market, we could start by taking a look in an unlikely place: Iran. According to Dr. Ahad J. Ghods, Division of Nephrology and Transplantation Unit, Iran University of Medical Sciences, “In 1988, a compensated and regulated living-unrelated donor renal transplant program was adopted in Iran.... in 1999, the renal transplant waiting list was completely eliminated”. This is due to the regulation and compensation. People are more likely to donate a kidney or any other organ, that they feel they don’t need, if they are going to get compensated. With regulations this provides the seller with safe and reliable transaction. MacKay argues that the poor are like to be exploited for their kidneys by saying that the amount of money they receive is not enough to take them out of poverty. While this is true, perhaps an alternate incentive such as a college education for the donation of the organ to the donor, or a family member of the donor would be a better solution. This solution would eliminate the chance at a middle man taking...
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...The organ shortage: To market, or not to market? Jessica Peabody Baker College Organ transplantation is a term that most people are familiar with. When a person develops the need for a new organ either due to an accident or disease, they receive a transplant, right? No, that's not always right. When a person needs a new organ, they usually face a long term struggle that they may never see the end of, at least while they are alive. The demand for transplant organs is a challenging problem that many people are working to solve. Countries all over the world face the organ shortage epidemic, and they all have different laws regarding what can be done to solve it. However, no country has been able to create a successful plan without causing moral and ethical dilemmas. The organ shortage is at a critical level, and unless a better system is devised, it will continue to get worse. The debate on whether to legalize and regulate organ trade through the free market has become a very controversial issue in the last decade. The shortage of organs is a problem the increases dramatically every day. In 2010, there were more than 112,000 people on the organ waiting list in the United States. However, there were only 14,507 donors. Of those donors, only 6,564 were "live donors" (UNOS, 2010). Organ trafficking is rising in popularity due to the constant increase in demand for organs and the continuous decrease in supply. Trafficking is the illegal trade of human organs such as the heart...
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...destroying white blood cells which help us to destroy invaded pathogens. When HIV enters a white blood cell, it may remain dormant. However, once it is activated, it infects another cell to produce many new HIVS. After a certain period of time, the white blood cells are destroyed and leading to a loss of function of the immune system (Y.K. Ho,2004). People infected by HIV will turn out to have AIDS. Infected people are very weak to fight off other infectious disease and soon they will die. According to the data and statistics of WHO, global summary of the AIDS epidemic, 2009, the number of people living with HIV is around 33.3 million and AIDS death in 2009 is around 1.8 million. How about China situation? We couldn’t find much data about China situation. Therefore, we have to explore the situation from other sources. 2. Current Situation of AIDS in China According to the ministry of health of the people’s republic of China, the number of people living with AIDS is about 370 thousand and AIDS death is about 60 thousand. The figure is much different from the prediction of United Nations (UN), UN predicted that there will be 10 million people living with AIDS at the end of 2010. So, which figure is more reliable? I would suggest the UN one and the following is my reason. In the early 1990s, the Chinese leadership launched a blood drive and paid donors for their plasma (Alice Park,2004), this is so called the “plasma economy”. Especially in Henan province, many blood stations...
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...wrote this essay about her brave niece. Maureen niece Jennifer gave up half her liver for her uncle, Michael (Maureen brother) who contracted hepatitis a few years back from an unsanatized blood transfusion. Maureen wanted her audience not to be frightened about donating organs. Maureen wants to inform the audience about organ donating, even if that person wasn’t related to you and you don’t even know them. You shouldn’t be inconsiderate about donating piece of your liver or any other organ to someone who might need it to live. Maureen is trying to communicate in this essay to the people who are still skeptical at donating. Maureen said her niece is a health fanatic, she is a personal trainer and she’s single, out in this cruel dating world. Plus they live in an “everything must be perfect” culture where the women us Botox, lasers, and liposuction. Just to make their bodies to this “so called perfection”. Maureen want Jennifer to feel good about her scare by using the love scene in Lethal Weapon three for an example when Gibson and Russo were showing off their scares to each other. Plus Maureen stated Jennifer had every quality a woman could want. This section that Maureen used in her essay was effective even though Jennifer had a scare on her stomach she was still joyful, and the scare didn’t even affected her personality. Maureen shifted from telling the story about her niece bravery to explaining more than 80,000 people are on the waiting list for donations, but most...
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...“Informational Essay on Food Pantries” Information Essay On Food Pantries Have you ever worried about where your next meal was going to come from? According to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. “The number of homeless in Ohio is on the rise” (The Regional Food Bank of Ohio is a food pantry where anyone has a special concern for the poor, elderly, lonely, homeless, and hungry. It is a place where people from all walks of life can come together to share a hot meal and visit and enjoy each other’s company. Figure 1 Figure 2 Increase in poverty percentage in Ohio Poverty Percentage by State Hunger has affected millions of families across the United States. Many economic issues are the Cause of poverty, the use of food pantries and soup kitchens, and the disbursement of food stamps. The number of people that would receive food from a food pantry went from 250-300 all the way up to 2500-3000; this big of an increase had been related to the recession (Greenburg, Michael. American Journal of Public Health, 2010, vol.100 issue 11, p2021-2022.) Low-paying jobs are sending men and women home with only enough money on their paychecks to be able to pay rent. Due to the increasing rate of people coming into food pantries, the amount of food that the federal and state government was able to supply had to be dropped by 2/3’s due to budget...
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...When I say the words “Cancer Treatment” what usually comes to mind is Chemotherapy or Radiation. But what about before technology and electronic medical devices were invented? In this essay I am going to tell you about what doctors and surgeons had to do when a patient had cancer in the 1800s. If a loved one has cancer, the doctor will often explain the procedure they are going to do to treat the patient. But for those that thankfully were never in that position, I will also be explaining some of the procedures that are done nowadays. Lastly I will be comparing and contrasting these procedures to see how similar or different they are. Have you ever wondered how surgeons treated cancer patients in the 1800s when electricity was not yet thriving?...
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...ESSAY 3 HEALTH IN THE TROPICS STATE OF THE TROPICS causes of mortality. Improvements in quality of life through improved health are harder to quantify accurately at scale. Life Expectancy Life expectancy is covered in detail elsewhere in the State of the Tropics, and reports that between 1950 and 2010 the gap between life expectancy in the Tropics and the Rest of the World has narrowed. Over this period life expectancy in the Tropics increased by 22.8 years to 64.4 years and infant mortality reduced by 36%. The rate of change of mortality and morbidity has increased over the last two decades influenced by a range of different factors. Underlying life expectancy data are aggregated data, collected by the WHO to document the changing patterns of mortality. Table E3.1 provides the top ten causes of mortality in rank order over the last decade. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for two-thirds of global deaths in 2011 and infectious diseases for one-third. In 2000 the relative proportions were 60% NCDs and 40% infectious diseases. This rapid shift reflects the massive scale up in recent efforts to prevent and treat a number of major infectious diseases. Although improvements in maternal and child mortality have been made these still remain unacceptably high. In 2011, 6.9 million children under the age of five died, 99% of these in low and middle income countries. Malaria, despite the enormous scale up in control activities still ...
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...King Edward VII’s Hospital Sister Agnes, established in 1899 with over a century’s worth of history brags about their top notch facilities, professional health consultants and nursing staff, zero occurrence of hospital-acquired MRSA infections and of course, its connection with the royal family (Standards 2013). However, the hospital came face to face with a major crisis when Mel Greig and Michael Christian, hosts of commercial radio station 2Day FM made a prank call to acquire confidential information of one of its patron at the time, Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton. The suicide of Jacintha Saldanha surfaced three days after being the first person to receive the hoax phone call before passing it to the duchess’ private nurse. This essay aims to highlight the ethical implications involved in this case study, the PR strategies taken by the radio station and whether the actions taken are appropriate in regards to the death of the British nurse. When the Jacintha’s case of suicide arose, the ultimate question was: Why did she turn to suicide? Despite previous records of Jacintha’s suicide attempts (Taher 2012), it was reported that she had no signs of mental frailness at the time of her work shift before she received the prank call (Sykes 2012). While it remains unclear if the hoax call drove Jacintha suicidal, it may have acted as a catalyst (Baker 2012) since a note containing expression of anger addressed to the two radio hosts was found after Jacintha’s death (Johnson 2012)...
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...Sunday, July 28, 2013 English Suggestion for Degree Examination Essay: 1. Savar Tragedy 2. Unemployment problem. 3. Democracy and its future in Bangladesh. 4. Internet/Information technology. 5. BDR revolution in Bangladesh. 6. Wonder of modern science. 7. Childhood memories Paragraph: 1Eve teasing 2 National flag , 3.Digital Bangladesh. 4. Vision 2021. 5. Democracy. 6. Patriotism. 7. Self-employment. 8. Load-shedding. Letter/Application: 1. Write a letter to your younger brother asking him not to be involved in Drug addiction/Smoking. 2. Write a letter to your brother advising him to read English newspaper. 3. Write a letter to your friend describing him the opening ceremony of world cup cricket 2011. 4. Write a letter to your friend telling him what you intend to do after your graduation. 5. Write a letter to your younger brother asking him not to be involved in Drug Addiction. 6. Write an application to the principal of your college for an English Daily. 7. Write an application to the DC for relief for the flood affected people. 8. Write an application to the chairman of union council for construction of a bridge. Job application: 1. Write an application along with a resume to the head of Human Resource Department of a pharmaceutical company for the post of a medical representative. 2. Write an application for the post of a customer service executive of a mobile company with your complete resume. 3. Write an application along with your resume for...
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...nglish Suggestion for Degree Examination Essay: 1. Savar Tragedy 2. Unemployment problem. 3. Democracy and its future in Bangladesh. 4. Internet/Information technology. 5. BDR revolution in Bangladesh. 6. Wonder of modern science. 7. Childhood memories Paragraph: 1Eve teasing 2 National flag , 3.Digital Bangladesh. 4. Vision 2021. 5. Democracy. 6. Patriotism. 7. Self-employment. 8. Load-shedding. Letter/Application: 1. Write a letter to your younger brother asking him not to be involved in Drug addiction/Smoking. 2. Write a letter to your brother advising him to read English newspaper. 3. Write a letter to your friend describing him the opening ceremony of world cup cricket 2011. 4. Write a letter to your friend telling him what you intend to do after your graduation. 5. Write a letter to your younger brother asking him not to be involved in Drug Addiction. 6. Write an application to the principal of your college for an English Daily. 7. Write an application to the DC for relief for the flood affected people. 8. Write an application to the chairman of union council for construction of a bridge. Job application: 1. Write an application along with a resume to the head of Human Resource Department of a pharmaceutical company for the post of a medical representative. 2. Write an application for the post of a customer service executive of a mobile company with your complete resume. 3. Write an application along with your resume for the post of a computer operator in a commercial...
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...Christopher Niemann Monica Hatch Eng. 100-001 June18, 2013 Reflective Essay Altruism: Proof that Mankind is Good Is mankind good by nature or is it a learned behavior? My purpose is to argue that mankind is good by nature. My research source for this will be Natalie Angier’s article on altruism. The title of the article is “Of Altruism, Heroism and Nature’s Gifts in the Face of Terror” as it discusses the desire to give and to sacrifice for sake of others. Natalie Angier is noted to be one of the premier science writers in the United States. She has received awards/recognitions for her research and has published many articles related to on science writing (50). If mankind is capable of having altruism as part of their genetic makeup, it is clear that mankind would then be good by nature. Altruism can be defined as an impulse. An impulse is a reaction to a situation, not a learned response to a situation. Pure altruism is giving without regard to reward or the benefits of recognition. . One example of this is noted in a paragraph in the above mentioned article on altruism. Angier’ talks about this as she wrote about the last of the four hijacked planes on September 11, 2001. It reads “as the last of four hijacked planes advances toward an unknown but surely populated destination, passengers huddle together and plot resistance against their captors, an act that may explain why the plane fails to reach its target, crashing instead into an empty field outside...
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