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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Health Law and Policy"”.
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Involuntary admission of young people to approved centres in Ireland: finding the voice of the young person a rights-based perspective
… of young people to an approved centre in Ireland. Children’s rights are an important evolving component of human rights-based law. This thesis is concerned with the voice of the young person, aged 16-18 years, in the involuntary admission process and the evaluation of proposals for reform. …
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New Jersey Overdose Prevention Act: Police Officers’ Experiences At A Drug Overdose Scene
… described as the “opioid epidemic.” Federal and state policymakers have shifted from a hardline punitive approach to a rehabilitative approach in an attempt to save lives. Good Samaritan Laws (GSLs) and advances in medicine have been implemented differently in different states. For example, …
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An Ethical Model for Mandatory Reporting to Avoid Preventable Adverse Harm in Health Care
… the dissertation is to undertake an analysis in healthcare ethics that focuses upon organizational ethics to resolve problems related to medical error in the U.S. The ethical argument focuses upon justifying a model of mandatory reporting nationally. While countless others have argued in favor of …
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Medical Error Disclosure: A Content Analysis of State Legislation
<p>Medical error is a public health problem in the United States (U.S.), causing approximately 250,000 hospital deaths per year. Health care leaders and policy-makers have identified medical error disclosure as one of many viable evidence-based solutions to address the problem of medical error – …
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A look at customer attitudes, influences of subjective norms, and behavioral intention regarding second hand smoke and smoking in public
… attitudes, influences of subjective norms, and behavioral intention regarding exposure to secondhand smoke and smoke free policy at a small family owned and operated restaurant. Research questions address relationships between customer attitudes and smoke free policy as well as likelihood of …
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The Fight Against Breast Cancer: A Policy and Programmatic Approach
… Breast cancer continues to remain a significant health issue for women. Previously thought to only occur among postmenopausal women, breast cancer has impacted women of different ages; and rates of breast cancer have various impacts among different ethnic groups. For women living in a toxic …
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Process and Outcome Disparities in NICUs: A Grounded-Theory Study
… units (NICUs) that may be impacting neonatal health outcomes, as perceived by NICU registered nurses (RNs).</p> <p><strong>Background:</strong> NICUs are one of healthcare’s most demanding environments. Persistent neonatal outcome disparities exist in birthweight, mortality, and care quality. …
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Sweeping Exposures: Lead Poisonings and Black Working Poor Populations in the United States
… impoverished neighborhoods through the idea and mechanism of <em>lead exposure</em>, by recognizing how specific exposure to the element <em>lead</em> and its by-products is both a symbol and a material cause of black urban poor illness and disability. There is no mistake that people living …
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Water and Life. A Cross-Sectional Study on Determinants of Beverage Consumption and Water Access in One Tribal Community
… to the obesity epidemic contributing to a public health crisis all over the United States. Native Americans, among other minority groups, suffer obesity disproportionately from the rest of the US population, yet they continually fail to be included in research on the subject. Traditional research …
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Exploring Locus of Control in Offender Cognition and Recidivism Paradigms
… inmates, we investigated locus of control and beliefs in the likelihood of continued legal involvement as possible antecedents to criminal recidivism. The surveys examined whether there was any connection between legal involvement frequency and the externalization of locus of control. We …
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Increasing Access to Primary Care Using NP’s: The Framework for an Academic Based Nurse-managed Center in California
<p>The dynamics of health care delivery and the role of health care providers is a changing canvas in the United States. The implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), sets a goal to increase access to health care. The systems that support the ACA are constantly under scrutiny as failing to …