Essays on Pockets

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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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This study tends to analyze the article mostly with respect to organizational climate. The article talks in favor of strategic human resource management approach which is the modern approach of human resource. This study gives the brief scenario of the condition of human resource management in current practice and its sensitivity which is followed by the brief background of the article. The article has supported the strategic human resource management as the second wave of human resource management evolution after the first wave that has improvised much aspect than the traditional one with different cases, examples, and exhibits. The ...

CHANGE IN THE COMMUNITY

Nowadays democratic society has developed various institutions and programs in order to provide equal conditions for personal and societal growth of everyone. In particular, people, who are less well-off, have chances to get needed help from state. Apart from common material goods, so-called welfare recipients are able to get particular medical aid, job offers, whereas children are given education opportunities (grants, loans etc.). No wonder, similar campaigns are rather costly, hence, a considerable part of taxpayers’ money is used for such goals. There occurs a reasonable question: is it fair if money of those, who work fair come into ...

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On the 11th of May, Nigeria topped the BBC news headlines with the headline that Nigeria had decided to raise the petrol prices in order to ease the shortages in the country. For an economist, this kind of a news headline is bound to trigger your thoughts as to why this particular nation had decided to increase the prices having in mind the fact that the country is Africa’s largest producer of oil and also it has a fair share of the international oil market. The country’s legislative arm stated that it had found it wise to ...

The heat was intense. The orange light shone on the desert, drying up the remaining puddles of water into vapour, rising into the atmosphere. A lizard crawled slowly, almost dying, parched and with a hide so leather like, one would think it was crisp fried. Slowly, I heard the intense ringing of the siren. Waaang waaaang waaang. It was time to get inside our shelters. The shelters were not made of concrete. Unlike the olden days, concrete was the material of choice. All buildings were once made from stone, from cement mixed with water to form hard solid blocks. ...

Health Insurance in the United States was implemented as a means to help individuals as well as families to cope up with the rising medical expenses. The annual report by has stated that the number of individuals seeking health insurance coverage (public) has seen substantial increases since 2010. This finding is in line with the assumption that the rising medical assistance costs have been putting a tremendous amount of pressure on people. They have been finding health insurance as the only viable solution to meet their medical expenses. But paying for insurance is not a relieving matter either (especially ...

Diverticular is a disease that involves the appearance of pockets or small bulges in the intestine walls (NHS, 2016). The pockets may become infected or inflamed resulting into diverticulitis. Some of the symptoms of diverticular include bloating; and pain in the lower abdomen. Many people who suffer from diverticular do not exhibit any symptoms. In such a case the condition is referred to as diverticulosis. On the other hand, diverticulitis has some serious symptoms that include fever; diarrhea; and severe pain in the abdomen. The diverticular disease occurs on the walls of the colon. The responsibility of the colon ...

Healthcare is a profession that requires intensive documentation, timely actions and response, as well as high level of human skills for delivery of quality healthcare. There has been an effort since extremely long time to bring in information technology and digitization into the realm of healthcare. The result has been in isolated pockets and digitization is being witnessed more in diagnostic efforts and aids. These isolated pockets have resulted in extremely sophisticated diagnostic equipment starting from digital X-Ray machines, blood analyzers, ECG (Electrocardiogram) machines etc.. The digitization efforts has so much so intensified in the area of healthcare that ...

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Approximately 2.5 million individuals in the United States contract pneumonia annually, and 55,000 of those individuals die as a result. In fact, pneumonia was the eighth prominent cause of morbidity and is the number one communicable disease in the United States. Pneumonia is the leading deadly hospital-contracted disease and contributes to a sizable amount of deaths in unindustrialized countries as well. It is a grave illness that can impact individuals in all age groups, but it is especially serious in adolescents, the elderly population, and in people with fundamental medical issues such as ischemia, low blood sugar, and ...