Essays

The medical field is broad in terms of definitions and terminologies because of the different specialties and areas it has. If a person has little or no background at all in health and medicine, he or she might find it …

Primary health care is normally the first point of contact with the health care system, often through a family physician. It is at this stage that promotion and education efforts are undertaken and one of the outcomes for any health …

Nurses are perhaps the last people that one would expect to be activist in nature. After all, nurses are defined as caring assistants in the medical profession whose job is limited to assisting the patient and doctor in their needs. …

Introduction Osteoporosis is an important public health concern especially in today’s health-oriented era. The growing number of those affected by osteoporosis has led to a growing concern in health care circles about the disease that has been called, “the hidden …

This paper contributes to a discussion on how to understand class, gender and health. Understanding is a sympathetic, empathetic, or tolerant in recognizing somebody’s or something’s character and situation. Differences in view on class, gender and health are social factors …

Human existence can be viewed and accepted differently: positively or negatively. It’s the usual order of things—light vs. darkness, white vs. black, obscurity vs. luminosity, yi vs. yang. I see know in between’s in the order of the world. These …

The role of vaccine manufacturers in pandemic threats is limited to what its designation directly implies, that is to manufacture vaccines upon demand regardless of whether such demand is real or is itself manufactured. Being profit-oriented private entities, its main …

In sum, proponents of nationwide immunization are seriously considering the mere possibility of a pandemic, and the fact that the unknown viruses that struck some of the athletes were indeed the avian influenza virus. According to them, a probability that …

Meanwhile, the President, who while being able to recognize the opportunity to show his decisiveness had failed to do so and instead, resorted to the safer measures, that is to announce in a press conference his approval of the National …

Similarly, the mid-level budget officials who immediately saw through the plan, and were in agreement that there was insufficient evidence to justify the Immunization plan, did not in any way bother expressing their opinions. They knew what was happening but …