Health Care in the U.S. And Spain What Can the U.S. Learn About Health Care from Spain? In 2009, Spain's single-payer health care system was ranked the seventh best in the world by the World Health Organization (Socolovsky, 2009). By comparison, the U.S. health care system ranted at 37 (Satiroglou, 2009). The Spanish system offers coverage as a right of citizenship that is constitutionally guaranteed. Spanish residents pay no expenses out-of-pocket, with

The state of Virginia may be considered a pioneer in wine making in that the very first wine cultivation experiments for the purpose of wine making were held here in the early 1600 (Biancalana 2002). By the end of the 1800s, Virginia was already an important wine-producing state, although interrupted by prohibitionism. The industry was revived by local produces and investors who started investing on quality production again in the

Youth Market in U.S. Wine Strengths of the Wine Industry: Awareness about the health benefits of wine drinking is growing Wine Industry has been able to produce high quality wine at affordable prices of late Development in biotechnology means that plentiful grape production is likely in future Weaknesses: The wine industry has mainly catered to the older generation of wine drinkers thus far The passive attitude in the industry that the young generation naturally grows into wine

health of the American economy is predicated on favorable financial conditions. Economic indicators serve as a barometer of the country's economic health, which in turn can spell profits or ruin for most companies. Economic growth provides a template for investor expectations. If an investor notes that leading indicators, such as contracts for new home sales, are rising then he or she knows that a perfectly distributed index fund that

Humor and Health: The evolutionary benefits of laughing easily According to Mora-Ripoli (2012), the old cliche that laughter is the best medicine is really true: laughter, even in the absence of something that is funny, can actually be healing. "Laughter can lead to direct physiological changes to the muscular, cardiovascular, immune, and neuroendocrine systems, which would have immediate or long-term beneficial effects to the body" (Mora-Ripoli 2013:57). Although humor can provoke laughter,

Family Health The X Family Family X consists of a father, mother, and two children (ages seven and nine). Both parents work as lawyers but the mother is able to work partially at home, which gives her more time to care for her children when they come home from school. Sometimes she works late and her husband takes over the 'second shift' of overseeing the children's homework in the evening. Mealtimes are described