At a national level the second largest amount of spending, 27 percent, goes towards health care including Medicare. The smallest investment is in energy and environmental science. Each is only 1 percent of the budget (Tucker, J). Yet environmental issues are often the cause of serious health problems according to...

There are many cultural groups in my community, identified in a variety of ways. These groups may have different health care needs. For example, my community has a substantial group of families with young children. Medically, they are most concerned with prenatal care, labor and delivery, and pediatric specialties. There...

Health research often cites a certain health outcome as being associated with, or more prevalent in a certain demographic groups. This implies that not everyone is the same and that membership in a certain group makes us more at risk certain health conditions than others. This is referred to as...

Cancer is a disease which body cells grow abnormally and spread to other tissues in one’s body. The signs and symptoms of cancer include weight loss, coughing and bleeding. The major cause of cancer is tobacco. It accounts for 22% of the cancer cases in Meriden. Other causes of cancer...

The cost of all of the interventions for one life-year mentioned in box 4-1 is totaled as 1,697,775 dollars (Tengs). This presents the issue of how to formulate a rule to optimize the amount of lives saved, given this number. One would go about doing this by factoring in which...