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How Psychology Can Help Enhance Health Care Delivery
<view this essay>.... influence a typical health care scenario; these are obedience, conformity and compliance. These qualities shall be explored in great depth revealing how the knowledge of psychology can help enhance a health care delivery.
Obedience, conformity and complience are known to depend on what is at risk, whata person loses will dtermine what he/she is going to do and to what extent the person carries given orders,(Rungapadiachy(1990 p.1).
The Focus of this discussion is to highlight on three crucial qualities that can influence a typical health care scenario; these are obedience, conformity and compliance. These qualities shall be explored in great depth .....
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Myotonic Dystrophy
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The presence of the genetic alteration may first be identified in a
family when a child is born with the form of the condition known as
congenital myotinic dystrophy. As the gene is passed on from generation to
generation, the condition may have an earlier age of onset and more serious
clinical features in each succeeding generation - a phenomenon referred to
as anticipation. Anticipation occurs more frequently when the gene is
passed from mother to child rather than from father to child. Anticipation
appears to be explained by the ability of the gene to expand from
generation to generation. Amplification is frequently observed .....
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Abortion: Is It Murder?
<view this essay>.... that they have
been killed legally because of abortion. Many people approve of abortion
because they consider that a fetus is not an individual human until birth.
Abortion is wrong and it shouldn't be legal. If a doctor killed a baby
one minute after it were born, they would be charged with murder. But if they
were to kill a baby one minute before it were born, and a minute before that and
so on, they would not be considered a murderer. At what minute can one consider
life worthless and the next precious?
Some people will say that abortion is not a matter of life and death,
but medical research proves that the fetus is a living organism. People also
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Angina Pectoris
<view this essay>.... angina pectoris is over
consumption of cholesterol. This chemical is only needed in minute amounts, but
is often eaten in every meal. In the body, cholesterol is responsible for the
stability of plasma membranes of cells, and hormones are produced from it. If
consumed at higher rate then needed it is stored in the tunica interna, the
innermost layer, of blood vessels. As it is stored it starts to build up
eventually clogging the vessel. As a result of this all cells feed by the
vessel die because of a lack of oxygen. If this condition is found early, it
can be corrected with surgical procedures or, in some minor cases, corrective
procedures. Surgical .....
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Can Genetics Cause Crime?
<view this essay>.... young men and minorities falling victim
most frequently". Sullivan also reported that about one in every 27
black men, compared to one in every 205 white men, died violently also 1 in 117
black women met a untimely end as compared to white women which only 1 in 496
were killed due to violent crimes. This is not surprising that young males
commit most of the serious crimes. According to an article in Scientific
American, only 12.5 percent of violent crime in the U.S. in 1992 was committed
by females. What is also surprising according to W.W. Gibbs the author of
"Seeking the Criminal Element," in Scientific American,(1995 March) pp 100-107,
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Depression
<view this essay>.... "Nearly 20 million people in this country are depressed." Twice as many women as men are affected with this disease. It is "the common cold of mental-health problems", striking the rich and the poor as well as the young and the old (Rosenfeld, 1999).
Experts think a genetic vulnerability combined with environmental factors may activate an imbalance in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters (Mental Health). seems to run in families and can be brought on by stress or physical illness.
Having a family history of increases your risk of developing the condition. Researchers have identified several genes involved in bipolar . But not everybody with a fa .....
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The Right To Die
<view this essay>.... as cancer, which leaves them in endless pain then that person should be able to die. In the United States 1,000's of people suffer tremendous pain from cancer.2 Most of these people wait and even pray for the moment of death that will end their pain, and remember they are forced to experience this pain because of the laws. If Euthanasia were legalized then these people would be able to end their day to day pain if they choose to do so. If those who are our designated healers (doctors) cant heal the sick then the control should be past over to the individual.
Those people who suffer from terminal illnesses are forced to live out life while losing their dig .....
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Rabies
<view this essay>.... man to man, rather the majority of infections occur from rabid dogs. After
a person has been inoculated, the virus enters small nerve ends around the site
of the bite, and slowly travels up the nerve to reach the central nervous system
(CNS) where it reproduces itself, and will then travel down nerves to the
salivary glands and replicate further. The time it takes to do this depends on
the length of the nerve it must travel - a bite on the foot will have a much
lengthier incubation period than a facial bite would. This period may last from
two weeks to six months, and often the original wound will have healed and been
forgotten by the time sympto .....
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