National Health Service had been created in 1948 and for the last decades it has been facing numerous reforms and structural changes in attempt to raise its effectiveness and competitiveness and to reduce costs. This report focuses on STEP analysis of major external factors and trends that might influence future activity of NHS and shape…
Advantages and Disadvantages of Conceptualising Addiction as a Disease
The question of whether alcoholism or drug addiction can be correctly defined as a disease has been the subject of debate for well in excess of 70 years. It has, however, been a very fertile debate with many writers, thinkers and researchers contributing arguments on both sides which we will discuss in the course of…
Media Effects on Teenage Drinking
JOE: A Teenager’s Struggle Stephanie Mikalatos Schools, government programs and parents working harder and harder to educate children, to “just say no” (Levinthal 387) [i] to drugs. But the fight is hard against millions of dollars used for alcohol and prescription drug advertisements, that are doing exactly the opposite and trying to make adolescents and…
Review of literature related to menopause
A literature for review is a carefully designed, logically developed discussion that provides the rationale for the problem statement, significance of the problem, theoretical perspective, research design and methodology reviewing the literature provides a better understanding and insight which is necessary to develop a broad conceptual framework in which the problem can be examined the…
Human Resource Management in Residential Care Home
Welcome to Kindly Residential Care Rest Home Introduction The “Employee Handbook” here summarises the procedures, policies and strategic HR practices related to and with Kindly Residential Care Rest Home. The Kindly Residential Care Rest Home is headed by the “Executive Director” who will lead the concerned staff and responsible for the development and implementation of…
Features of Modern Society that Enhance the Risk of Infectious Diseases
Are there features of modern human societies that enhance the risk that new infectious diseases will appear and spread? Think about aspects such as speed of transport, population density, human spread into new regions, use of new foodstuffs, climate change, etc. What are some new diseases and how might they have been affected by these…
Ethical Issue of Elder Abuse in Care
Twyla Roberts works at Marion Home Care Agency as a physical therapist. She offers physical therapy primarily to the elders but will treat children as well. Twyla does a big majority of her work in a home setting. She does treatments throughout the community, and the agency is interconnected with two area hospitals and several…
Case Study: Adolescent Type 1 Diabetes
Mary is 19 old female as she just come for higher studies in university. She was diagnosed diabetes type 1 at the age of 11. Her objective data shows the symptoms of uncontrolled diabetes. Diabetes have many complication include diabetic ketoacidosis, hyperglycemia, hyperosmotic non-ketotic state, and hypoglycaemia. In Australia 3.2% of female and 4.0 %…
Study On The Changes Of The Nhs Nursing Essay
In the last five years, United Kingdom has experienced a significant change in its national health services (NHS). This paper therefore focuses on that change. The first section is a detailed description and the main objective of the change. Using appropriate models and frame works, the second section identifies the key drivers to the change…
Addiction to Prescription Drugs in the UK: A Public Health Disaster
Prescription drug abuse is a growing problem all across the UK, dependency on prescription drugs can be just as harmful as addiction to street drugs, such as cannabis. The most common prescription drugs to be misused are opiates, antidepressants and stimulants. Prescription drug addiction of medications such as painkillers, are carried out by people who…