...Meniere’s Disease Victoria Hall Infection Control L. Huskey July 2, 2012 Meniere’s Disease Meniere's disease is a condition that causes a problem with your inner ear. The cause of this disease has not been found as of yet, but may be related to the inner ear having a buildup of fluid. This can be a bother to anyone having Meniere’s. Meniere’s disease is not fatal or contagious. Meniere’s disease is “a disorder characterized by recurrent prostrating dizziness (vertigo), possible hearing loss, and ringing sounds (tinnitus)” www.everydayhealth.com. The disease comes on suddenly and is an ongoing problem. People who have the disease experience symptoms of vertigo and tinnitus. These symptoms are not ongoing, but when people have the symptoms, they are called an "attack." “Attacks may happen often, or only sometimes. Attacks may last from 20 minutes to 2 hours or longer. Meniere's disease usually occurs in only one ear, although some people” www.everydayhealth.com. Meniere’s disease is not curable but is treatable. Once diagnosed, the physician my prescribe medications for vertigo, to give some relief of the attack. Medications such as diazepam or meclizine might be given for the vertigo to help with the nausea and vomiting. Dyazide may also be prescribed as a long term medication to reduce fluid retention. Though Meniere’s disease is not fatal or ongoing , it is permanent and it can or may “ may affect your interaction with friends and family, your...
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...Dear Jane, How are you? As for me I’m good. I really appreciate your concern about my long hours at work. And I do respect your opinion pertaining to balance between my job and studies. If you don’t mind, this is what my life has been like in America. I moved to America in December 2008.Ever since, I’ve been working at Broadridge Financial Inc. In all honesty, I truly believe that I’m very good at my job. In case you were wondering, I operate a press, or as I say a printing machine. I like to be candid, and in saying so, I don’t see myself advancing or getting anywhere in this Firm. That why for my own good, my best bet is going to school and be a success As far as my reading goes, I did completed my book. “A Warrant to Kill by Kathryn Casey. A non-fiction about a woman named Susan White. Who was mother of one child named Jason. Jason was a trouble kid. Who’d always be in a conflict. Susan was gifted woman, she was in the Navy and she was a Nurse. Her trouble started when she met this young cop. Who wanted a relationship with her, in which she declined. Kent Joseph McGowen was his name. He had a bad reputation, he was what they referred to as a womanizer. He used this job as a passport to sleep with women. The tragedy started when Kent McGowen used Jason’s best friend Mike Shaffer...
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...NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM AND LABOR MARKETS Brigitte C. Madrian Working Paper 11980 http://www.nber.org/papers/w11980 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 January 2006 Written for the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 50th Economic Conference, “Wanting It All: The Challenge of Reforming the U.S. Health Care System,” June 15-17, 2005, Chatham, MA. This paper draws quite extensively on three previously written papers: “Health Insurance Portability, Labor Supply, and Job Mobility,” July 2004, written for the Inter-American Conference on Social Security; “Health Insurance and the Labor Market,” in Huizhong Zhou, ed., The Political Economy of Health Care Reforms (Kalamazoo, MI: Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 2001), and “Health, Health Insurance and the Labor Market” (with Janet Currie) in Orley Ashenfelter and David Card, eds., Handbook of Labor Economics, Volume 3 (Amsterdam: Elsevier-North Holland, 1999). The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. ©2006 by Brigitte C. Madrian. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. The U.S. Health Care System and Labor Markets Brigitte C. Madrian NBER Working Paper No. 11980 January 2006 JEL No. I10, J3, J6 ABSTRACT ...
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...Health care in the US-a system or not Angela Stafford University of Phoenix Health care organizations and delivery systems HCS/531 Russell Arenz III November 08, 2010 Health care in the US-a system or not A system is defined by Mosby's medical dictionary as "a group of interacting, interrelated, or interdependent elements forming a complex whole" (Mosby's 2009). Health care system is defined as "the complete network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of health care in a specified geographic area" (Ginsbury, Doherty, Ralston, & Senkeeto, 2008, p. 55). To make a system complete there has to be parts that bring it together. This paper will explore some of the components of a health care system, fundamental goals of a system and whether or not these components and goals interact with each other to form a whole. How medical treatment is arranged, financed and delivered are components of a healthcare system. Treatment is organized by the providers that offer the treatment and whether the providers are practicing in private practice, in small or large groups, or in corporate associations. Financing treatment includes any entity involved in payment of treatment services including the individual who requires the service or any type of insurance agency. Treatment delivery refers to the place treatment is provided, for example, rural or urban locations and inpatient or outpatient settings. Three fundamental objectives of a health care system include...
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...The US Health Care System Danny Gomez HCS/531 February 7, 2012 The healthcare system in the United States is very complex. Both its inherent composition and the external factors that shape it include a multitude of elements that add to its complexity. This paper will present a definition of the health care system in the US, describe the implications of beliefs and values on this system, and offer examples of the various health care delivery models that comprise it. A health care system can be defined, as a grouping of organizations, institutions, and resources functioning with the intention to fulfill the health care needs of communities and/or populations. Such a system includes components that cover four major functions – financing, insurance, delivery, and payment. In a functioning system one would expected to find its components carefully coordinated and interrelated. However, the US this system is comprised of independent components that work simultaneously but not always collaboratively to deliver and fulfill the requirements of health care. The reality of the US health care system is that its components function independently, in a loosely connected fashion, and without a single central agency governing and regulating it. This characteristic is contrasting to systems in many other countries that have a national heath care program designed to provide a set of equitable health services to all its citizens. Access to health care services in the US varies,...
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...The U.S. Health Care System Yusara Millan Phoenix University HCS/531 Kenneth Feldiman February 20, 2012 The U.S. Health Care System Today’s health care system is a constant focus of debate those who argue about the American system been the best health care system in the world but there is also the part that argues that the U.S. waste more in health care system than any other nation in earth and yet many Americans have not insurance coverage. The intention of this paper is to search the health care system of the U.S and identify as well as understand the structure of the health U.S. health care system. According to Chua, K. (2006) the United States has a very distinctive health care system; it is not like any other health care system in the world. The US health care system consists of private and public insurers in which the private component dominates the public component. Public Health Insurance Medicare is a federal program that covers disabled individuals as well as over 65 individuals, which is funding by federal income taxes, payroll tax shared by employers and individual premiums. According to Chua, K. (2006) the benefits of Medicare Part A covers all the hospital services, the Part B covers the physician services, and Part D offers prescription drug benefits. The Medicare Part C refers to Medicare Advantage, which is HMO’s that control Medicare benefits (Chua, K.2006). According to Chua, K. (2006) there is many breaches in the Medicare coverage, which...
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...Health Services Organization Assignment #1, Health Care issues in the United States Dr. Rashida Biggs Alexander Johnson October 20, 2011 Explain how health is affected by behaviors, economics, and social structure. Imagine a world where no one smokes cigarettes. This would be an amazing phenomenon due to not only a major economic factor but the health concerns that would not be an issue. Smoking is a behavior issue that has been argued since smoking ever was introduced. This behavior began more than 400 years ago (Schuman, MD) and has continued to be a huge health concern worldwide. There is historical data on tobacco use in the United States through the US Department of Agriculture with dates as early as the 1880’s to support the consumption by US citizens. With such a behavioral issue, the health care will always have a concern due to the effects of cigarette smoke and other tobacco related products. Health issues like cancer and cardiovascular diseases are directly related to this behavior. Although the rates of the diseases listed have shown somewhat of a decline, the health issues still remain and will for some time. Alcohol and illicit drug use are other behaviors that effect the health of Americans. When citizens use drugs, alcohol or tobacco, there are behaviors that are attributed to the use of such items that effect the health of individuals. These behaviors also play a role economically in the US. It has been studied that the behaviors discussed are addictive...
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...Financing Health Care in the U.S. Tim Johnson HCCUniversity NURS 3006 Section 02, The Context of Healthcare Delivery Nov 24, 2013 Financing Health Care in the U.S. Financing healthcare in the U. S. continues to be a major concern, and going forward it could become a monsoon. There are many methods available to finance healthcare in this country, and some people have access to several methods. However, a large percentage does not have access to any methods, and as a result they are uninsured. Among the methods used to finance healthcare are private insurance, Medicare, and Medicaid. We will discuss Medicare, and some of the issues the federal government is facing with rising health care cost. Money and how to pay for things are always at the forefront of the problems. Unlike other healthcare funding issues Medicaid is funded totally by the federal government. Private insurance is funded by employers, employees and private citizens. Medicaid is funded 2/3 by the federal government and 1/3 by the state government. Medicare is currently funded by tax payers and the federal income tax. The population is getting older, and many baby boomers are nearing 65 years of age and will be eligible for Medicare. If the current trend continues many experts believe the system will be bankrupt within 10 years. As a result, the government will have to increase the federal income tax, or find a way to reduce cost. One of the main issues is that curtailing cost normally means...
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...The Future Challenges Facing Health Care in the United States Gregrey McDaniel Professor: Manuel Johnican, PhD Strayer University HSA 500 11 June 2011 Identify and describe at least three of the most difficult issues facing health care in the United States today. One of the most difficult issues facing the United States health care system is combating diseases. Even with mortality rates continuing to decrease and with life expectancy rates continuing to increase, these trends are masking concerns with specific diseases, injuries, and population groups. The diseases that still give us a formidable challenge include many varieties of cancer, some kinds of infectious diseases, and influenza. The second difficult issue is health disparities. These disparities are widespread. Differences in how patients receive treatment and the access to treatment are measurable through financial, physical, and attitudinal indicators. Disparities affect all groups of our population. These disparities are related to race, sex, language, genetics, age, and income. We all could benefit from a more efficient system which removes or minimalizes disparities. The third difficult issue facing the health care system in the United States is paying for health care. In the United States, we have had insurance as the biggest payer of health care for many years. There has been evolution in the types of insurance and how they manage aspects of the business. Insurance companies have been held...
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... Lack of health care coverage is a serious issue for the citizens of the United States. Imagine if you were a non-citizen, or even worse, an illegal immigrant to this country. In 2005, the United States population included 36 million foreign-born residents (Lee & Choi, 2009). In this same time, non-citizens were 1.6 times less likely to access health care compared to the citizens (Lee & Choi, 2009). Non-citizen refers to foreign-born people legally in the United States, and follow the same rules and rights as US Citizens, but do not have the right to participate in political issues (Lee & Choi, 2009). Illegal immigrants will describe persons who have entered this country without proper authority or who no longer have a valid visa (Lee & Choi, 2009). The effects of health care, or the lack of health care, affect persons in the United States regardless of status of citizenship. Disease and accidental injury do not discriminate based on citizenship, nationality or financial class. Treatment of disease and injury currently does vary greatly. Access to Health Care There is a shortage of primary care physicians and specialists across this country, and this provides the flexibility of these provides to choose who to provide care to in the physician office. Private physicians may refuse to treat patients who have Medicaid or cannot pay to time of service. Even persons with health insurance may find accessing...
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...coverage of health care and personal choices about your own health care. The average cost of insurance for an American family is approximately $17,000 per year with health care insurance companies raising rates almost every year. Insurance offered through employers is usually at least partially paid by the employer. Health insurance is mandatory for all families and people face large tax fees if they are uninsured. Germany also has mandatory health insurance for all of it’s citizens. German...
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...The costs of healthcare in the United States has skyrocketed over the last several years. According to CMS, as cited on unitedhealthgroup.com (2015) the GDP has grown from historically 11% to an estimated 19.6% by 2021. This trend indicates that the cost of healthcare in the US is rapidly excessing the income level of those who pay for it. Over 60% of employed individuals that receive healthcare benefits from their employers have experienced such a rise in premiums and out-of-pockets expenses that it has more than doubled between 1999 and 2008 (ssab.gov, 2009). While there are multiple components of the healthcare system and multiple populations that the healthcare system needs to cover one of the largest single population that will be a tremendous consumer of healthcare is the elderly population. As we have discussed many times throughout this class, the elderly population is growing by huge numbers primarily due to the baby boomer generation hitting retirement age. According to the American Hospital Association (2007) the aging Baby Boomers will cause the over 65 population to almost triple by year 2030. Along with this immense population group they will bring with them demands and challenges for the healthcare system as 6 out of 10 will be living with multiple chronic illness. With Medicare being the primary source of payment of healthcare in the over-65 age group it has been noted that the median annual out-of-pocket cost to Medicare beneficiaries will reach approximately...
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...transparent and regulated by a government committee, everyone needs health care to stay healthy because health care should be available to everyone in the us and why health care cost so much in th us. Healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee, everyone needs health care to stay healthy given that health care should be available to everyone in the us. Everyone needs health care to stay healthy even though healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee Even though healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee, availability health care in the usa is important because health care should be available to everyone in the us and why health care cost so much in th us. Healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee, availability health care in the usa given that health care should be available to everyone in the us.Even though healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee, everyone needs health care to stay healthy because health care should be available to everyone in the us and why health care cost so much in th us. Healthcare costs should be more transparent and regulated by a government committee, everyone needs health care to stay healthy given that health care should be available to everyone in the us. Everyone needs health care to stay healthy even though healthcare costs should be more transparent...
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...discuss and compare two health care systems in the USA, the GPs and NHS systems, the relation between expenditure on these systems and efficiency of them. Another aim of the essay is to compare heath care systems in different countries and find out whether the dominance of public or private spending is optimal for the society; here the comparison between UK and USA health care system will be appropriate. Question #2 In the USA nowadays the Private Health Insurance system is the major provider of health care cervices. Is this situation adequate to the demands of the tax payers and is it effective for different categories of people who need medical treatment? Should the ratio between private and public sectors in health care be changed and should the organization of both systems be reformed? Let us first of all define what is health. These can be two ways to define it: 1) Negative: the absence of disease 2) Positive: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.” (World Health Organization, 1946). Therefore we can outline two aims of health policy: to improve health and to reduce health inequalities. In terms of the first definition, the US health care system is efficient. In terms of the world-accepted definition, the second one, the US health care system is expensive and in many cases not efficient. Let us analyze the relation between costs and effectiveness in this system. First of all let us trace the development and progress of both health care systems. The basis...
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...compare heath care systems in different countries and find out whether the dominance of public or private spending is optimal for the society; here the comparison between UK and USA health care system will be appropriate. Question #2 In the USA nowadays the Private Health Insurance system is the major provider of health care services. Is this situation adequate to the demands of the tax payers and is it effective for different categories of people who need medical treatment? Should the ratio between private and public sectors in health care be changed and should the organization of both systems be reformed? Let us first of all define what is health. These can be two ways to define it: 1) Negative: the absence of disease 2) Positive: “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being.” (World Health Organization, 1946) Therefore we can outline two aims of health policy: to improve health and to reduce health inequalities. In terms of the first definition, the US health care system is efficient. In terms of the world-accepted definition, the second one, the US health care system is expensive and in many cases not efficient. Let us analyze the relation between costs and effectiveness in this system. First of all let us trace the development and progress of both health care systems. The basis for current health care system was established after the World war II, when private doctors were serving most of the market. The traditional perception of health care as one of the...
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