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Need to Know, Number 02, October 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-10)
Need to Know, Number 03, November 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-11)
Need to Know, Number 01, September 2007
(Sinclair School of Nursing, 2007-09)
Missouri Energy Summit 2009 Program
(University of Missouri (System), 2009-04)
The program for the Missouri Energy Summit 2009, held at the University of Missouri-Columbia, April 22-23, 2009.
Body Project 2008 conference schedule, University of Missouri, April 12, 2008
(The Body Project, 2008)
This is a two page schedule of the 2008 Body Project Conference. The conference was divided into four sessions and also featured an all-day poster session and a keynote address.
Findings from Year Two of the External Evaluation of the Healthy & Active Communities Initiative
(University of Missouri - Columbia Institute of Public Policy, 2008)
The Missouri Foundation for Health has funded 33 projects under its Healthy & Active Communities (H&AC) Initiative in two-year funding cycles. A set of 15 projects was funded beginning in 2005 while a set of 18 was funded ...
Ethical Issues: Reflections on HB 905
(Center for Health Ethics, 2005-04)
In times of crisis there are opportunities to grow and learn. With the suffering and demise of Terri Shiavo patients, families, and health care providers again find themselves in doubt as to what to do in the midst of very ...
Ethical Issues: The Uninsured
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-06)
There is ongoing debate as to the importance of the “problem of the uninsured” in this country and in Missouri. This institution, as an academic state hospital, seems to get more than its share of uninsured patients who ...
Ethical Issues: “The Patient Just Wants to Go Home”
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-08)
Not infrequently in the busy practice of medicine we come across patients who, regardless of the severity of illness or need for acute care, demand to go home from the hospital against our advice. At these times the physician ...
Ethical Issues: The Pope and Terri's Tube
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-07)
On March 20, 2004, in a papal allocution delivered at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II made statements regarding the feeding of patients diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state. These statements have rekindled ...
Ethical Issues: Communication
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-05)
Nothing is more important to the welfare of patients, providers, and health care systems than effective patient centered communication. This occurs by having the knowledge, attitudes, skills, and organizational infrastructure ...
Ethical Issues: Caring for the Caregiver
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-03)
One of the important details we tend to overlook when taking care of patients with debilitating or life-threatening disease is the welfare of those family members taking care of the patient at home. The burden of providing ...
Ethical Issues: Malpractice Crisis
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-04)
Medicine is in crisis. Doctors, especially those in high-risk specialties like obstetrics and neurosurgery, are leaving their practices in response to ballooning malpractice costs. Malpractice rates for physicians are ...
Ethical Issues: The Difficult Family
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-01)
Some of the most difficult situations faced by physicians have been when loving and caring families, often out of guilt or misunderstanding, disagree or become demanding. This challenge intensifies when those demands do ...
Ethical Issues: Spirituality and Health Care
(Center for Health Ethics, 2004-02)
Faith and spirituality, and their place in professional relationships, are getting a great deal of press these days. From an airline pilot proselytizing to his captive passengers at the beginning of a four hour coast to ...
Organizational Ethics Committees
(Center for Health Ethics, 2009-10)
The first official healthcare ethics committee convened in 1971. But the origin of such committees came years earlier in response to a rising tide of moral concern in health care. “Committees for the Discussion of Morals ...
The Terri Schiavo Crisis
(Center for Health Ethics, 2003-11)
Terri Schindler-Schiavo has lived in a persistent vegetative state in Florida for thirteen years, since her collapse and resuscitation at age 26 due to apparent severe hypokalemia. She has been kept alive with a jejunal ...
Vulnerabilities and Economic Wellbeing of Hispanic in non-Metro Missouri
(Cambio Center, 2007)
Non-metro Missouri has observed a net in-migration in the last decennial period and great part of these immigrants are Latinos (Lazos and Jeanetta). The literature contends that Latinos are being pulled into the rural areas ...
The role of effective principals in reducing teacher turnover in disadvantaged schools
(Institute of Public Policy, 2009)
Rates of turnover among public school teachers in the U.S. are substantial. Among all teachers, national estimates indicate that 16.5% of teachers left their schools between the 2003-04 and 2004-05 academic years, the most ...
Health Literacy and Health Care Quality
(Center for Health Policy, University of Missouri - School of Medicine, 2008)
How health literacy affects the quality of health care.