Coverage Research Papers Samples For Students

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Although obliged to cover issues in their entirety, with no distortions made in the process, American media tend to misrepresent the reality, as was the case with the depiction of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime implications for the social welfare possibly for political reasons. The noble cause of saving the international image of the USA formerly allied with the late leader in the wake of the Gaddafi demonization could have been the driving force of misrepresentation of the myth related in part to ethical minorities. The knowledge of non-consequentialism and its principles, whether unconsciously or otherwise, allows readers to perceive ...

Healthcare can best be defined as the maintaining as well as the improving of one’s health through various aspects such as treatment, vaccination and so on. The deliverance of health care is mostly done by professionals of health in all fields. The access to health care services has been observed to vary across various countries, regions, ethnicities, social groups in society as well as individuals (Healthy People 2011). However, the main factors influencing access to health services have been reported to be the social as well as economic conditions of a particular place. The access to quality healthcare ...

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Numerous attempts to reform health care in the United States on the federal level have been made since the 1930s, but differences between each state represent a significant barrier to every previous federal health care reform. In 2010, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, but the current implementation and effects of the law are not the same across different states. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the effects of the health care reform in California and Florida, as well as the positions of the two states. It was found that the insurance ...

Introduction

The expansion of Medicaid is considered a key component of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) that focused on providing healthcare coverage to millions of uninsured Americans (Buettgens, Holahan, and Recht, 2015). Some of the low-income earners and poor people who do not have health insurance in the U.S. live in Texas. Medicaid is administered or run by individual states and the federal government. Individuals who enroll for Medicaid benefit by not paying premiums for healthcare coverage. The state hospitals are using about $5.5 billion annually for treating uninsured people. The uncompensated healthcare costs are, therefore, covered by insurance premiums and ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 was signed into law on March 23, 2010 (HHS.gov., 2015). Referred to as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), it is a health reform effort that has generated a great deal of controversy due to its complexity and wide range of impact. The ACA is mainly concerned with mandating that every person in the country have some form of health insurance. Almost immediately after the legislation was passed, marketplaces for health insurance appeared and businesses hurried to find coverage for employees. There were some very negative changes that resulted such ...

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This brief essay studied the uninsured and the health care disparities they face. Essential Affordable Care Act provisions and their effects were studied. Critical factors affecting the health care of the uninsured were identified; these included race, ethnicity, income, socioeconomic status, culture, language and income. Several research studies concluded that while access to health care has improved, the quality of this care has not improved for the uninsured. Although the number of uninsured has been reduced dramatically since 2010, insurance costs continue to increase significantly. Failure of states to expand Medicaid benefits has limited uninsured patients’ health care options. ...

Aetna, Humana and the United Health Group provide care by combining quality coverage and well-planned premiums. The coverage in the form of health insurance includes the preventive care, immunization for children, visits of doctors and hospitalization expenses. All these companies have recognized providers in every area and the formality of filling out the claim form is not required with these providers. The network of each company is spread across the country and has many doctors and hospitals included in it.

The plans offered by Aetna are Preferred Provider Organization Plan, Managed Choice Plan and Preventive and Hospital Care Health ...

The full implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) happened in 2014, introducing health insurance reforms and fresh health coverage options in Pennsylvania, California and other regions in the United States. Before the Affordable Care Act, under a waiver, California made several initiatives to expand the state’s Medicaid program – Medi-Cal – and made plans to restructure the health care delivery system within its safety net. Within the first two years after the ACA went into full effect, Medi-Cal, together with Covered California, which is the state’s health insurance Marketplace, facilitated the health coverage of millions of California residents. ...

1. Introduction
The health care system in the United States is considered to be unique among other developed countries, including those participating in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). What is more, the system is recognized as one of the most complex ones across the globe. This attitude towards complexity is mostly associated with high costs which derive from the necessity to cover the expenditures of doctors’ training and education, prices on drugs, equipment and technologies as well as costs of chronic diseases. Moreover, access to quality health care refers to another side of complexity, because uninsured ...

Millions of elderly people in the New York have extensive health care needs and expenses, but many have limited incomes or savings to assist them cover the cost of care. Virtually all elderly New York residents have Medicare, the federal health insurance program for disabled and elderly Americans, to assist pay medical bills (Stokes, 2004). However, limits in the scope of benefits, coupled with financial obligations and problems for coverage, can lead to a serious financial burden (Zahra, 2004). Elderly persons with low incomes are particularly vulnerable to these problems because they are more likely to have health problems than ...

Aetna. Inc.
Aetna provides advanced benefits to the consumers, businesses, health care professionals, and producers. Aetna is a managed care organization that provides traditional and consumer focused health care insurance plans and associated services including medical, dental, social health, long-term care, and ill health plans. Insurance plans grouped into Bronze, Silver and Gold for individual or family, medical insurance, student insurance and international insurance. Few of the many insurance plans from the company are Aetna Affordable Health Choices, Aetna Choice POS, Aetna Signature Administrators, Aetna Student Health Program, Aetna Savings Plus PPO, and Aetna Open Access Elect Choice .
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The articles I selected are “A federalist approach to health reform: The worst way, except for all the others” and “Medicare and Medicaid spending variations are strongly linked within hospital regions but not at overall state level.” In their article, Aaron and Butler (2008) suggest that the support for state actions should be instituted as part of any model of expanding the health insurance coverage. Political issues, which have lasted for over ten years, have been an obstacle to the national efforts to expand coverage. The researchers argue that some states have expanded the coverage while others have reiterated ...

IT133 – Week 3 Assignment

IT133 – Week 3 Assignment
4B/5B is a block encoding system that breaks up long strings of zeroes and ones but does not increase the frequency bandwidth by breaking them up in four-bit sequence. Table 1 shows each block of four bits replaced by a block of five bits. Due to this, there cannot be more than one leading zero and two trailing zeros. This means that the resulting bit stream has no more than three consecutive zeros (Figure 1). This bit stream is transmitted using non-return to zero inverted (NRZI) method and is used in 100BaseTX (Fast Ethernet) networks ...

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Medical care is an obligation of the government in the United States because all citizens are entitled to the access of healthcare services. Nonetheless, the healthcare programs are not only executed on the premise of providing health services alone; but such services are to be affordable as well. Medicare part D refers to the program where the United States federal government subsidizes the cost of drugs prescribed for the patients. It also covers the drugs and the associated insurance premiums, and all these are executed to benefit the healthcare beneficiaries. This paper analyzes the Medicare Part D and the ...

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Politics- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Civil Rights Events
The end of the civil war in America abolished slavery but racism still persisted in the country with segregation in education, public transport and housing being very prevalent. The civil rights movement in America has a long history and African-Americans have been fighting for equal rights since the beginning of the last century. Two events from the civil rights movement paved the way for stronger legislation and changes in how the African Americans were treated. On 17th May 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education ...

The paper deals with comparing and contrasting health care reform data for the two states of Minnesota and Arkansas.

Lack of Health Insurance
According to the last data recorded, Minnesota had 7 percent of its total population without any private health insurance, neither their employer nor the government has it for them (State Public Health Statistics, 2016). This percentage has decreased only by 0.9% in last one decade. For Arkansas, it is the state that ranks 35 when it comes to having health insurance for the state’s population. 13.9% Arkansas population lacks health insurance, privately, through the government or the employer (State Public Health Statistics, 2016).
Lacking health insurance privately put people in having difficulties accessing the ...

Genocide, which can be defined as the action intended to eliminate certain national, ethnic, religious, or racial group, is regarded to be one of the cruelest and most inhumane acts performed by people. Among most known instances of the genocide are the Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Bosnian genocide, the Armenian genocide, and the Cambodian genocide. Apparently, events that take place during genocides have incredibly painful effects on human beings and bring about variety types of suffering. It is particularly significant for the people to remember about horrible acts of genocide. The social institution which is capable to help ...

Business Plan

Business Plan

Executive Summary

A business plan is a particular statement that contains the goals of a business and the way of attainment of these goals. The paper presents a business plan that employs a business strategy in defining the business’s overall goals, management team, staffing of the organization and other factors. This plan ideally presents my idea of establishing a new business venture in the field of health care. Initially, the paper presents a well-detailed description of the business that is to be established. This includes defining the overall objectives of the business the particular products that the business ...

Natural disasters affect a large of people around the worked and this is rising because of climate change and the rising concentration of people inhabiting the areas that are more exposed to natural disasters. These natural disasters reduce the economic growth and a significant impact on poverty and social welfare, which affects the developing countries, and their most vulnerable populations. While natural disasters cannot be prevented, actions can be taken to reduce their human and economic costs. This paper looks at a large-scale natural disaster such as the Indian Ocean Tsunami of 2004, the effect it had on the ...

In January 2014, Congress passed an act that would promote reform of agricultural programs in the United States which would become known as the Farm Bill (GPO.gov, 2014) and it was signed into law in February 2014 (NIFA.usda.gov, 2016). In addition to agricultural programs, the bill supports employment and research within the industry (YouTube, 2014). It also relegates funding for tribal institutions for Native Americans and black institutions such as Central State University in Ohio.

Evolution

The origin of the farm bill began in the 1920s as farmers faced drastically lower crop prices at the end of World War I ...

Abstract

This paper explores various published articles that address employee insurance programs available for employees in an organization, particularly in the United States. The article discusses different aspects life insurance and disability so that when they are evaluated collectively, they create a rational analysis of the subject of the research. Hasman et al. (2004) explain the current employee insurance situation in the country. Martoccio (2010) and Fronstin (2007) provide a detailed discussion of employee benefits. The discussion available in these two sources tends to create several categories of both life insurance and disability insurance, describing how offering such plans may ...

Introduction

Medicaid is the public health care system used by the majority of citizens in the US. Health care services have become very expensive in recent days with the price tag of medical services expected to be on a steady rise for the next couple of years. Most citizens are burdened with the heavy cost of medical services. Various states are looking into means by which the Medicaid health plan can be made available to as many citizens as possible. Qualifications for the Medicaid health care plan is based on various factors such as income, disability, family, status and disability ...

The Patient and Protection Affordable Care Act dubbed ObamaCare is a health care reform in the US aimed at expanding and improving citizens’ access to healthcare and insurance. The act was signed into law by President on 23rd March 2010, but most provisions came into effect in 2014 (ObamaCare Facts, 2015). The specific objective of the law include things such as ; offering Americans more benefits and protections, allow for purchase of health insurance in a marketplace; expanding Medicare for the aged and disabled; improving Medicaid coverage in more states; increasing employer coverage; making it mandatory for people to have ...

Introduction

Compensation and benefit system is a division of the human resource management that is aimed at making policies concerning workers’ benefits. Compensation benefits can be referred as all the benefits that employees receive and are part of the salary, and which is given to employees as a reward for their labor. Compensation benefits can be divided into three major classes. These benefits can either be direct, indirect or non-financial (Lissy, 11). In direct compensation, the company pays its employee in form of salaries, remunerations, commissions and bonuses. In indirect compensation, firms and other enterprises reward their employees in other ...

Policy Analysis: Issue of Health Disparities in Alaska Natives and American Indians

Health disparities among Alaska Natives and American Indians (AI/ANs) have been reported since the initial contact that occurred nearly 500 years in the past. Moreover, the disparities are common in every age and across a wide spectrum of various disease categories (Sarche & Spicer, 2008). Accordingly, AI/ANs endure persistent health disparities that include health status decline, barriers to essential health services, and high uninsured rates. The group also experiences a lower status of health in comparison to other Americans (Frizzell, 2016). The disproportionate burden of disease and reduced life expectancy in AI/ANs can be attributed to cultural differences, discrimination in ...

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Health Insurance is a form of insurance where an individual is insured against the risk of paying medical expenses in case they are in need of various types of medical care. Health insurance may not appear beneficial especially when a person stays for many years without becoming sick or requiring any medical care attention. However, it is clear that health insurance is necessary for every individual as it comes with numerous benefits. These benefits include protection from running into a financial ruin, access to preventive and primary care services, access to follow-up care services, eligibility to options for offsetting ...

Introduction

The paper will examine the local and international media, which have played a crucial role in the Rwanda genocide. Local print and radio fueled the killings, while the international media did not take the news seriously and misconstrued events on the ground or even ignored the local reporting. The illiteracy rate was high at the time of the genocide in Rwanda and radio was one of the most important means to deliver the governmental messages to the wider public. It can be stated that the western media, such as CNN, BBC, The New York Times did not maintain the ...

Managed care does not involve an entity, rather a wider category that involves various healthcare delivery practices and structures, physician incentives as well as the developed relationship with physicians. Even though managed care structure undergoes the challenge of avoiding conflicts of interest hence leading to under-treatment, others are more challenged compared to some. Whether the MCO minimizes physician conflicts of interest depends on the manner in which they are organized and financed, the degree of physician involvement in managing patient care quality as well as the nature of the incentives used in controlling costs. The structure of managed care ...

Introduction

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) safeguards health care services in the United States. It embodies numerous statutory clauses that not only affect the health care system but also creates the necessary impetus for quality and precision in the sector (Schoenewolf, 2012). Before its enactment, the health care system in the United States was fraught with inconsistencies that were detrimental to the overall quest for quality health and wellness. Due to the broad nature of its provisions, the Act may take some time to be fully implemented (Schoenewolf, 2012). However, such a challenge should not deter the ...

The government has issued a lot of policies in the past years so far. One of the major moves of the Obama administration as far as policymaking is concerned was the issuance of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. What this policy is all about is overhauling the entire American healthcare system so that the focus would be placed on the affordability of healthcare for patients . Prior to its ratification, the focus of the American healthcare system was on the insurance companies and healthcare providers and institutions, at least based on theory as well as the preliminary research ...

Economic Environment of Peru

In recent years the economy of Peru has been showing an excellent performance and was regarded as one of the most fast growing economies both in the Latin America and all over the world. Even in 2009 when most of the countries registered the fall of major macroeconomic indicators due to the international financial crisis, Peru still demonstrated a slight GDP growth at a rate of about 1% (Memoria 2009,13). The Ministry of Economy and Finance of Peru in its economic and social outlook published in October 2010 claimed that “Peru overcame the global financial crisis relatively unharmed, maintaining GDP ...

Introduction

As part of his presidency bid campaigns, president Barrack Obama had promised people of the United States that he will do changes in the countries systems for the advantages of the people. Iin addition he made several promises for the purpose of making better the life of the American people. Due to his successful win over his opponent, he succeeded to become the president of the United States. He had the roles therefore to fulfill the promises he had promised his people.

One of the major changes that he had promised was reforming the health care sector. His main ...

GRIT 791 – Seminar in Instructional and Communication Technology

The effectiveness of social media in assisting the student in the understanding of classroom content as well as other relevant research work is one phenomenon that is gaining a lot of interest with the onset of time (Tess, 2013). Because of the changing trends in technological and social life progress, learning is undergoing a number of evolutions. Students tend to be obsessed with technology, especially Instagram as opposed to the previous use of books for gathering any relevant information (Tess, 2013).
Social media applications in the academic sector include computer software typically design to help learners gather and analyze ...

Employee Benefits Plans For Small Businesses

Employee benefits are very crucial in the lives of employees together with their families. Employees will consider benefits if they are to work for an employer. There are those benefits that employers must provide as required by the state while others are optional and it is the employer who decides whether they can offer the benefits or not. Most benefits provided include employee social security, unemployment insurance taxes, employee compensations, disability insurance, leave benefits, family, and medical leave (United States Small Business Administration, 2017). On the contrary, optional benefits may include COBRA benefits, employee incentive programs, health insurance, and ...

Sharon Fouquier-Simpson

Nowadays, hashtags have overloaded the world. People are using hashtags on social media right and left, but not very many people pause and think about how using of hashtags has evolved the English language. It is easy to use hashtags: it is enough to add sign figure # before any word or before the phrase typed without gaps, and they will automatically turn into a hashtag. In search result on this or that hashtag you receive all messages or pages with the same marking from other users. As it was noted above, most of content marketing specialists understands possibilities of ...

Insurance Plans

ABSTRACT
Insurance plans are optional benefits that an organization may offer to its employees. Although they are considered optional, it is standard in most industries to offer insurance programs within a benefits package. Employers may choose to include these benefits in a package and may choose to pay for the benefits or have the employee pay for the benefits. The life insurance plans available are term life, universal life and whole life. Accidental death and dismemberment may also be offered, and there are two types of disability plans that may be offered, short term and long term. It is ...

Introduction

Multinational corporations across the world usually consolidate and present their operational results in financial and non-financial terms at the end of every term, usually a year. The financial aspect of reporting is supposed to comply with a clearly prescribed set of regulatory standards. The adoption of the International Financial Reporting Standards and GAAPs was meant to ensure that all compliant firms across the world produce financial statements that conform to the industry specific reporting frameworks and thus achieve a degree of uniformity in reporting. Different firms in operating in multiple locations operate under the strict guidelines of the specific ...

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The United States Department of Veteran Affairs is grouped among the largest executive departments in the country. The committee is charged with the responsibilities of providing medical care to veterans and their families and offering financial support. Veteran’s health issues include; substance use disorder, mental health disorders, stress, and brain injury among others. Veteran health problem is much higher compared to the private health concerns. However, as the steady affair department advances, different issues have evolved, which have caused adverse effects on the veterans. The primary problems affecting veteran affairs include; increased wait times for patients, ...

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This paper evaluates several sources to try and determine whether the needs of youth in juvenile detention facilities are being met. While most youths consider counselling to be effective, more than half of them do not have the pleasure of working with professional mental health personnel. The education system used in most of these facilities tends to be ineffective because the needs of detained youth are different from the needs of their counterparts in the general population. Further, there are various disruptions, including court proceedings and security procedures that take up plenty of time that would be used for ...

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The Importance of Freedom

Freedom is taken for granted by many people because of the fact that they have never known anything else. Because of this fact; the importance of freedom is not even thought about. Freedom is very important to people for varied reasons.
Having the ability to speak freely and to also pursue happiness is just two of the benefits that come with being free. Another benefit is that freedom leads to enhanced expressions of creativity allowing an individual the ability to think creatively, to be productive, and to enjoy a very good quality of ...

Introduction

The Americans with Disabilities Act also called the ADA was signed into law in the year 1990. The act serves the purposes of protecting the civil rights of Americans with disabilities who are more that 50 million individuals in number. It further purposes to ensure that the disabled Americans are presented with the same opportunities in the social, political, and economic context as everyone else so that they can fully participate in public life. The act prohibits discrimination in all areas of life that include; employment, services in the state and local governments, public accommodations, telecommunications, education, as well ...

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Air Cargo Ships May Soon Alter Global Supply Chains

Abstract

Most companies across the world applying sophistication in their supply chain designs are engaging in the use of air cargo as a competitive advantage regardless of the costs incurred. These aspects occur with the reflection that air cargo being perceived expensive in terms of an alternative method for supply chains that rely on ocean transportation. However, the focus on air cargo does not emerge on the basis of the accidents or even crisis situations in the incorporation of logistics strategies to global manufacturers. Research indicates that the focus on air ...

Introduction

The 2nd amendment is one of the most important parts of the American Constitution, which gives an individual right to bear arms. “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (U.S. Const. amend. II) has raised many public debates about the controversy of the topic with trying to limit and even ban the right of the firearms from citizens. The 2nd amendment added to the Constitution on the December 15, 1791 has been questioned and seen different interpretations. The American ...

Public Policy: Health Care Policy Issues

Health care policies refer to the decision, actions and plans that are done in order to achieve health care goals within a society. There are several different explicit health policies in order to achieve different things as it defines an idea for the future of the people. This in turn helps establish targets and points of reference for other short term and medium term goals. These policies outline the urgencies and the likely roles of different groups and department in the government and the private sector. It also builds consensus and helps inform the people about how the government ...

The term representation is used to refer to the construction of meaning through various symbols and images (Sisler, 2008). Cultures, races, and religions are represented in different forms of media around the world, but in most scenarios these representations are filled with stereotypes making western cultural ideologies and beliefs as better or ideal compared to other forms of cultural ideologies. The portrayal of Arab- Muslim Americans or Muslims in general, within the media of the United States focuses on the idea of agenda setting and the dominant ideology which frames the perceptions of mainstream America (Gerhauser, 2014).
The United ...

Article Reviews: Political Challenges of the CHIP

Article 1: Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP): Accomplishments, Challenges, and Policy Recommendations. (n.d.). Retrieved May 03, 2016, from http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/133/3/e784
This article by Committee on Child Health Financing offers both the legislative background and evolution of the CHIP together with its accomplishments, of course, the key aspect of problematic issues are also addressed in the article. Towards the end, the article offers various recommendations to both healthcare providers and the government for consideration. This article not only acknowledges the signal successes by the ACA-(Affordable Care Act) in their extension of the health insurance covers including the CHIP, but ...

The Fair Sentencing Act

On August 3, 2010, President Barack Obama signed into law the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, for the first time in the History of the U.S (Grindle, 2010). This law was a response to the then claims of racial biases of the law in convicting drug dealers. This Act established new quantity thresholds, which were meant to trigger statutory mandatory minimum and maximum penalties for offenses related to cocaine. By so doing, this law amended the Controlled Substance Act and the controlled import and export of substance. This new law saw to it that the quantities of cocaine that ...

History of national healthcare reform

The quest for the universal healthcare in the United States has dominated political debates for the last 100 years (Shi & Singh, 2014). The proponents of a universal healthcare system have made frantic efforts to reform the system. However, each time they have attempted, they have often been met by challenges, which lead to defeat. Unlike other developed countries which have comprehensive health insurance for their citizens, the United States still struggles attain a universal healthcare system. In the initial days, the government made little efforts to subsidize access to healthcare. The federal government left the responsibility of healthcare to ...

On a particular issue of importance to Canadians, do the media present a range of viewpoints or political positions or do they reinforce and reproduce dominant ideologies?
Media play a major role in informing the general public of the current affairs entailing the issues that may directly or indirectly have effects on their daily lives (Carney 2008, p.18). In both the western and eastern world, mass media are recognized as the primary source of news, entertainment, advertisement, sports and recreation in general, and the education channel that aim to reach a large number of audiences. Media are deemed as ...

Audience + History
China Central TV, further referred to as CCTV, is a globally driven network seasoned in providing news from around the globe with an Asian target audience; however not limited to. Originally launched in Beijing on April 26th of 2010, the network spanned into America just shy of two years later on February 6, 2012 and also is reporting live feed in Africa, Europe and South Asia. Because CCTV is a major source in global news linked to Asia, the audience is mostly viewers from an Asian background or at the very least has significant ties to Asia.
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Abstract

There is currently a shift to the social determinants of health (SDH) framework in public health and the larger health system. The framework demonstrates that larger social systems impact individual socioeconomic position which predicts material, biological, and psychosocial circumstances. The resulting disparity directly impacts health. Disparity can be noted in diabetes and heart disease. Healthy People 2010 and 2020 have raised the issue of disparity at a national level which stimulated research and program and policy development to eliminate SDH. Advanced practice nurses have important roles to play as leaders, researchers, advocates, and care providers in the achievement of ...

The Effects of Climate Change on Allergies and Asthma Cases

Since the discovery of global warming or climate change, scientists have been warning the public of the possible implications this phenomenon could bring. They highlight erratic and severe weather patterns, changing ecosystems and the persistence of diseases that cannot easily be treated. While skeptics remain ignorant over these warnings and governments trying to make amends over their national policies, statistics show that these warnings should be taken seriously especially with regards to respiratory diseases such as asthma and allergies. However, it is a question as to what impacts climate change has towards the prevalence on allergies and asthma cases ...