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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Health agency"”.
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Investigating Burnout at a County Mental Health Agency
… followed by a specific look at the population of agency-based mental health counselors versus private practice mental health counselors. Research focusing on self-care and it’s interaction with burnout is reviewed concluding that self-care is a possible treatment strategy used to prevent and …
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Examining the Relationship Between Local Public Health Agency Inputs and Outputs
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Factors Associated With Local Public Health Agency Participation In Obesity Prevention, 2008
<p>Obesity is the leading public health problem in the U.S. Obesity rates in every state are increasing. Local public health agencies (LPHAs) are tasked with prevention and are the foundation for health efforts on the community levels. Conceptual frameworks show that good infrastructure leads to …
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Understanding government Web communication strategy as applied within the Public Health Agency of Canada
… up the Web communication strategy of the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC). The thesis focuses on the extent to which PHAC's Web site reflects its mandate and implements the Government of Canada's public policies that regulate its Web presence. The Web communication strategy is analyzed from …
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Characteristics and Resource Utilization of Patients of a Proprietary Home Health Agency in Rural South Central Kentucky
The home health industry's introduction to managed care raises the prospect of reduced access to health care and poor outcomes for a vulnerable segment of our population—the rural elderly. Before effective intervention strategies can be accurately evaluated, a clearer picture of the …
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An identification of the core variables that assist people diagnosed with mental illness in a time of transition
… exiting a non government community mental health agency. The variables of interest are those that assist individuals to cope during this time of change and transition. The specific transition involves participants leaving or exiting from a non government mental health agency that provides …
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Effectiveness of a treatment approach for comorbid major depressive disorder and borderline personality disorder: a case study
… Personality Disorder in a community based mental health agency. The client's psychosocial assessment is presented and the empirical treatment literature related to the client's diagnosis is reviewed. A variety of outcome measures were used. Results indicated the treatment was effective: the client …
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Effectiveness of a treatment approach for comorbid panic disorder, major depressive disorder, and alcohol dependence: a case study
… who underwent treatment in a community mental health agency. The client was diagnosed with comorbid panic disorder, major depressive disorder, and alcohol dependence. In addition, the client experienced a variety of psychosocial stressors. The client's psychosocial assessment is presented, and …
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CDC’S COVID-19 VACCINATION MESSAGES AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT: A STUDY ON FACEBOOK POSTS
<p>Government health agencies utilize social media for public health interventions. This study examines how CDC, the national public health agency of the United States, use <em>Facebook</em> to disseminate COVID-19 vaccine messages and to get public engagement towards them over the past two years …
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System interactions and mental health outcomes: rural African American men with serious mental illness, their social support networks, and community mental health agencies
… illness experience disadvantages in mental health care resulting from both race and gender. The intent of this research is to better understand how rural African American men with serious mental illness and their social support networks interact with each other and the institutional context …
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Teacher Leadership to Enhance Day Treatment Services
… regular classrooms due to their need for mental health care and treatment. The unique design of day treatment classrooms combines individualized educational programming provided by publicly funded teachers and mental health treatment provided by workers from a children’s mental health agency. The …
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Cross-Training Home Health Clinicians in Advanced Illness Management
… project focused on the cross training of home health clinicians in Advanced Illness Management (AIM), in order to improve patient care. This project allows patients to receive more timely and patient centered care, by reducing delays caused by having separate clinicians for home health and AIM, …
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Homecare Portacath Protocol in IVIg Administration
… My microsystem is a medium sized Home Health Agency with a specialty of in home infusion therapy. While evaluating protocols for immunoglobulin (Ig) infusion I found that there was no protocol for the administration of Ig by portacath. After consulting with the Director of Nursing (DON) …
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A Needs Assessment of Communicare's Children Mental Health Services
… of conducting one. Communicare is a mental health agency that serves the Lincoln Trail Region. Currently, most of the revenue from their children programs comes from Medicaid, which is a fee-for-services payer source. The Kentucky Medicaid Program is in the process of contracting with …
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Home Health: The Process of Assigning an Appropriately Trained Skilled Nurse to Provide Safe Patient Care
… patient safety, and lack of education of home health nurses. The population included home health patients in the Bay Area of San Francisco of all ages. The project had its base at a home health agency office in Emeryville, California with no actual hands-on patient contact. A CNL was added to …
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Sexual Health Education (SHE) in Ontario: Exploring a Sample of the Public Discourse Surrounding the 2015 Update to Ontario’s Human Development and Sexual Health Curriculum
… social ostracization and bullying, and mental health challenges) associated with sexuality and sexual health (Brady & Halpern-Felsher, 2007; Drouin, Ross, & Tobin, 2015; Public Health Agency of Canada [PHAC], 2008) on their way to adulthood. The need for relevant sexual health education that …
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Changes in Functional Status of Home Health Cardiac Patients from Admission to Discharge
… diagnosis of cardiac disease in the home health setting. The independent variables of dyspnea and service were examined for the effect on discharge functional status while controlling for the effects of age, gender, race, admission functional status, primary and secondary diagnosis. A …
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Essays on the economics of health insurance
… three essays on issues in the economics of health insurance. The first study considers the effects of average per-patient caps on Medicare reimbursement for home health care, which took effect in October 1997. I use regional variation in the restrictiveness of per-patient caps to identify …
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Modeling the Impact Of Environmental Factors, Diapause and Control Strategies on Tick and Tick-Borne Disease Dynamics
… In order to address this problem, the Public Health Agency of Canada has dedicated an entire section of its website to discuss the risks and the possibility of preventing, recognising and treating tick-bites. It is therefore important to analyse tick and tick-borne disease dynamics in order to …
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