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Employee benefits issues: How employee health interventions can decrease costs

Effect of Gluten and Casein-Free Diet on Autism

Childhood obesity has become an epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the incidence has more than tripled in the last thirty years. Obese youth are more likely to have risk factors…

Government Control on Public Food Choices

How does your selected health care organization segment the market(s) that it serves?

This paper analyzes a specific public policy issue (food insecurity and poor nutrition) from a variety of ethical perspectives: consequentionalism, deontology, virtue ethics, relativism, and determinism. It explains the theory and then applies the specific theory to the issue. Finally it concludes with a reflection on the value of studying ethical theory for public policy-makers.

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Abstract The rising rates of obesity in Australia have been a thorn in the flesh for the federal government, the civil society, and other stakeholders alike. The country currently ranks fourth in the world, with an obese population that exceeds a quarter of the total. Various stakeholders have devised policies and strategies aimed at curbing the spread of obesity and overweight. This text explores one such strategy – the government’s ‘fat tax’ proposal. It examines the arguments both for, and against the proposal, from an Australian Medical Association (AMA) point of view, and gives a personal stand on the same.

One nursing theory which resonates with me and has influenced my personal philosophy of nursing is that of Nola Pender's Health Promotion Model. Pender's concept of nursing is linked to patient self-empowerment and the…

Americans are getting fatter--but the reasons for this trend remain opaque to scientists. This essay does not come to a final conclusion about why obesity rates in the United States have been climbing so high: rather it examines three recent articles on the subject and examines how the authors come to complementary, but slightly different conclusions as to why this is the case.