Proposal for Offering Dental Services to the HIV/AIDS Community
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A 5 page paper proposing training public health technicians and nurses to recognize the oral lesions that often announce the presence of HIV infection in otherwise asymptomatic individuals, particularly women of child-bearing age. Those women at highest risk are unlikely to visit the dentists who can readily recognize the lesions and refer the women for treatment, but those visiting public health clinics can still benefit from the screening there. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: KSdentalProp.wps

The EMTS Fight Against AIDS: The Role They Play
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This seven-page-paper gives an in-depth discussion in the role EMT'S play regarding the AIDS virus. How EMTS can show support to the family when they are called to the scene of an AIDS patient, as well as how they can help the community fight the disease are all included. Bibliography lists five sources.
Filename: CWEmttre.wps

The Influence of Social Determinants & Factors in the Health Care System on Wellness in Cuban Immigrants with HIV/AIDS in Miami, FL
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As HIV/AIDS continues to spread in minority communities in inner-city areas nationwide, concern for evaluating the social determinants and factors in health care that impact wellness is a significant and increasing concern. This 12 page research study is designed to consider the problem of AIDS/HIV in a single population, the Cuban-American population of Little Havana in Miami, Florida, and define the response of health care providers in addressing the issue of wellness for this community. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
Filename: Aidscub.wps

Health Care Occupations and Diversity
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This 4 page paper examines statistics in respect to higher level positions in the health care field. The paper claims that more progress needs to be made in terms of diversity but that some changes have already been accomplished. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA602div.rtf

Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
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This 7 page paper focuses on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) which is a precursor to AIDS. HIV is defined and explored. Treatment and research are also included. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: SA718HIV.rtf

Life Expectancy
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This 3 page paper looks at various aspects of life expectancy. Is life expectancy really much longer than it had been? Should people expect to live longer in the future? Causes and effects of longer living are explored. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: SA733lif.rtf

"Cordless Cautions": A Review of an Article Discussing Cordless Power Tool Safety Issues
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A 3 page overview of the November 2001 Tech Directions article titled "Cordless Cautions". In it authors Peter Domeny and Jennifer Uzumcu review the precautions which are necessary to safely and most effectively use cordless power tools. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPtoolPw.rtf

"Deaf Like Me"
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A 5 page book report of "Deaf Like Me" by Thomas Spradley and James Spradley. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAsprady.wps

"Nurses' willingness to care for AIDS patients and spirituality, social support, and death anxiety": A review of the article by Deborah Witt Sherman
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A 14 page analysis of the research strategies enlisted in this study, strategies designed to investigate the relationship between independent and dependent variables. The author of this paper delineates the research design and methodology of the study, outlines its statistical approaches, and comments on its findings. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: PPnrsWll.rtf

"Partners Health Care System, Inc.,(B): Cardiac Care Improvement"
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A 5 page review of a 2001 article by Gary Pisano (Harvard Business School) detailing the changes made at a Massachusetts hospital that allowed the simultaneous reduction of costs for caring for cardiac patients, the reduction of resource utilization and patient length of stay, and improved patient outcome. The author details the process the organization went through and concludes that although several problems still remained, the processes that had been put in place to resolve costs and patient outcome in the restrictions levied by capitated insurance contracts could be expected to be successfully utilized to overcome those problems as well. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: PPmedEf2.rtf

"People-Seeds": An Analogy In the Abortion Argument
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A 6 page discussion of the concept of "person-seeds", a concept introduced by author Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971. This paper outlines Thomson's analogy and uses it to delve deeper into the issue of the rights and wrongs of abortion. No additional sources are listed.
Filename: PPabrtSd.rtf

"Smoking Among Chinese Americans: Behavior, Knowledge, And Beliefs" - Summary And Response
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3 pages in length. Yu et al (2002) illustrate the prevalence of smoking within the Chinese American population, with a substantially greater number of men than women engaging in the addictive habit. The authors - who studied myriad aspects inherent to the incidence of smokers among Chinese American populations by utilizing Chicago's Chinatown as a viable representation - employed qualitative methodology via a questionnaire formulated in part by the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS). Six hundred forty-four respondents between the ages of forty and sixty-nine were queried for their input. No additional sources cited.
Filename: TLCSmokChin.rtf

"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down" by Anne Fadinman
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A 5 page paper which examines the professional behavior of nurses and other medical professionals as seen in Anne Fadinman's book "The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down." The paper also presents an overall examination of this book as it relates to the clash of two perspectives, the American medical profession and the Hmong people. No additional sources cited.
Filename: RAfldown.rtf

'Modern Day Health Issues Of African Americans'
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A 5 page paper on the health problems facing the African American of today. Problems with health care are addressed. As well as work hazards and specific beliefs. Stress is put on the need for better education. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
Filename: Africam.wps

'No Smoking' Policy For Portsmouth, NH
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9 pages in length. From airplanes to restaurants and public transit to movie theaters, smoking was considered no more dangerous to nonsmokers than thalidomide was for pregnant women in the 1950s and 1960s; since then, both secondhand smoke and the morning sickness pill have proven significantly harmful to the unwitting recipients. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: TLCNoSmokBan.rtf

'The Health Practices of Homeless Women / A Causal Model'
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A 5 page paper critiquing Linda Flynn's publication named above, an investigation into both observed and reported health practices of homeless urban women. Where medical records were lacking, the author attempted to estimate the level of health care these women had known previous to their homeless life. Limited to data collection only by self-reporting, however, neither the author nor the reader can be fully persuaded that the research accomplished its intended mission.
Filename: Homewome.wps

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