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"Episode 1: What Is the Health Humanities

WEBEpisode 1: What Is the Health Humanities? An overview of what the health humanities is and why the field is relevant to health care today. The Health Humanist is a Health

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The United States Should Have a Universal Healthcare System

WEBThe U.S should opt-in for universal health care. Lack of healthcare results in poorer health for individuals, communities, and the entire nation by limiting opportunity, health, and …

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The Health Humanist Medical and Health Humanities Program

WEBThe Health Humanist is a Health-Humanities take on health and health access. Produced by the Medical and Health Humanities program at Misericordia University, this podcast …

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Is American Healthcare a Right or a Privilige

WEBPromoting and maintaining health. Preventing and. managing disease. Reducing disability and early death. Achievement of health equity for all Americans. (Healthy People 2020, …

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Is Healthcare in the United States a Right or a Privilege

WEBHealthcare is a right, not a privilege. Individuals deserve the right to preventive care and tertiary prevention for illnesses. Our society has an obligation to make adequate care …

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Universal Healthcare: Good or Bad

WEB1. The economics of Universal Healthcare. • A study done by the University of Colorado and the University of Pennsylvania shows that people who have health insurance miss, on …

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The United States Should Have a Universal Healthcare System

WEBIn December of 1948, the United Nations passed a bill that codified our human rights, including the essential right to health (Healthcare as a Human Right). All other …

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A Nurse's Impact on Global Health Concerns

WEBNurses should advocate for enhanced measures for prevention, detection, and response to global health concerns within their own institutions. Big changes can only be achieved if …

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Is Street Medicine Effective in Improving Access to Healthcare

WEBWe are taught to provide equal healthcare to all patients regardless of their background. Healthcare should be available for all patient regardless of housing status.

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Why Uninsured Americans Burden The Health Care System

WEBThis poster exemplifies the burden that is put on the health care system specifically emergency rooms when Americans are unable to afford health insurance. It …

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College of Health Sciences and Education Misericordia …

WEBMisericordia University is organized into three academic colleges that offer programs on the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels. The College of Health Sciences and Education (CHSE) is dedicated to the education of future and post-professional health care practitioners and educators through both traditional and graduate programs, certificates, …

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"Nurses Can Make A Difference on the Impact the …

WEBThe uninsured rate has increased from 2016 to 2019 and due to the Covid-19 outbreak in 2020 and unemployment, that number has likely jumped. Health care has …

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"Do Core Measures Improve Patient Outcomes in MI, Pneumonia, …

WEBImplementation of core measures developed by the Joint Commission improves health outcomes in patients with Acute Myocardial infarction (AMI), Congestive Heart failure …

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"A Systematic Review of the Effects of Horticultural Therapy on …

WEBA systematic review of the benefits of horticultural therapy (HT) on persons with mental health conditions was conducted. A review of research from 1992 through 2015 located …

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Politics in Healthcare: The Benefits of the Affordable Care Act

WEBWith the enactment of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, the quality and access of health care was further reformed in an effort to aid in the prevention and …

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Global Health Concerns: Can Nurses Make a Difference

WEBPandemics, climate change, pollution, access to food and clean water, life expectancy, noncommunicable diseases like diabetes and cancer, and health education are very …

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Nurse Residency Programs, A Solution to the Nursing Shortage

WEBHibbett, Kylie, "Nurse Residency Programs, A Solution to the Nursing Shortage" (2020). Student Research Poster Presentations 2020. 33. The nursing shortage has become an …

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Nursing Migration and its Impact on Source Countries.

WEBThe number of new jobs expected to be created for nurses in the United States over the next decade is one of the highest for any occupation. A shortage is forecast of between 400,000 and 800,000 within the next decade (Pittman et al., 2017). In Zambia, the nurse to population ration is 0.22 to 1,000, a figure that is more than 40 times less

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Why Uninsured Americans Burden The Health Care System

WEBThe uninsured/underinsured population puts a significant burden on the American health care system. This burden stems from this populations inability to get access to health care,. The burden the underinsured creates is clearly seen in overcrowded emergency departments. For example , a simple medical condition such as strep throat would

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