Health Without Gaps continues to support our vulnerable population.

Obesity

In the United States there are over seventy million adults that are considered obese.  Conditions that can be related to obesity include but are not limited to diabetes, stroke, and heart disease.  On an annual basis, the medical costs of obesity are over one hundred billion dollars with each individual costing fifteen hundred dollars more […]

Organization for Emotional Intelligence, Engagement, or Positive Personal Regard

            The issue of top talent employees leaving an organization can be explained through an idea, proposed by Leigh Branham. In the article of Lawler, et al (2008), Leigh Branham, the CEO of human resources consultancy –Keeping the People (KP), proposed the only most effective approach in which employees of Sambian can feel free to […]

Obesity in United States

Obesity is a complex disease involving an excessive amount of body fat. There are underlying chronic diseases associated with obesity. Obesity can be connected to increased threat for factors such as, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, arthritis-related disability, and some forms of cancers (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, n.d.). There is […]

Health as Means of Social Justice and the role of social supports in Health Information

The idea of social justice in relation to market justice is how fair distribution of society in terms of benefits, responsibilities and their consequences are allocated.  While considerable effort has been made to include more social, economic, and cultural perspectives, efforts to frame these issues became political phenomena, which have tended to be polarized. This […]

Healthcare Ethics and Patient Confidentiality

The need to exert influence to safeguard the health of populations and, to avoid abuses of such power are at the heart of public health ethics (Thomas, Sage, Dillenberg & Guillorv, 2002).  More than any other industry, issues that deal with patients and their welfare are of utmost importance in the healthcare industry. This is […]

Can We Learn from Cuba Healthcare System?

when looking at the U.S. healthcare system, we can see some factors shaping the strength of a single unchallenged status. Among them and as a consequence of an imperfect market for healthcare is the entry limits that prevent the number of providers who can run-through in a particular area (Altman, Reinherdt & Shields, 1998).  These […]

Intermediary Leaders and How Successful Leaders Do What They Do

             In a situation where a leader has to look up to the employee while ensuring his or her reputation is not put to the wall, is something that requires four personal resource skills— physical , emotional, spiritual and most importantly mental construction in self-guidance of  becoming successful at what you do. This guides in […]

Listening and Other Strategies to Effective Leadership

It is important to note leadership role as an important recipe of every business entity, whether small, private, public, multinational, medium, or large organization. It is also important to understand that common to the finest of leaders is the capacity to practice and deliver information creatively. For instance, this is the capacity to advance pertinent, […]

Public Health Organizations and Steps in Improving a Culture of Ethics and Responsibilities

The two steps to foster the change process in organizations include improving sound ethical behavior within the organization and focusing on the capacity for leaders to follow instead of lead. These are significantly essential steps, even in public health settings. It is important for many organizations, small or large to understand that ethical behavior in […]

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