Health Care Essays and Term Papers

present crisis in significant sugar and caffeine consumption. There are so many sweeteners added to today's foods, and only because food companies are competing to have the sweetest and best tasting foods on the market. Caffeine is another substance,…

of finely cut tobacco for smoking, enclosed in a wrapper of thin paper. A cigarette contains tar; this is the harmful substance that caused 4.84 million people to die from smoking worldwide out of which 2.41 million are in developing countries like…

all the cool kids did, with peer pressure claiming another crop of nicotine addicts behind the bike sheds every year, but increasingly it is becoming only something the rich kids are able to do. After the introduction of large EU health warnings onto…

is the balance between all aspects of life - social, physical, spiritual and emotional. It impacts on how we manage our surroundings and make choices in our lives - clearly it is an integral part of our overall health" (youth healthne.ie 2003) I…

ill. Sarah is one of hundreds and thousands of people who suffer with debilitating forms of mental illness. Until a few years ago, Sarah, and many others like her were housed in institutions regulated by the State of Connecticut. Burdensome and expensive…

10,000 more people become infected with AID." - Kofi Annan Seventeen million people are dead. Twenty-five million more have the same death sentence hanging over their heads. An entire continent is held captive by the fear of this killing machine.…

                 Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is a viral respiratory illness caused by a corona virus. SARS was first reported in Asia in February 2003. Over the next few months, the illness spread to more…

year there is an increase in the amount of women who develop the disease cervical cancer. As we are developing a poster to encourage women to be aware of the disease, we feel it is essential to present the factors which put women at a higher risk. …

is a deadly disease that has claimed many lives, both young and old, across our nation and throughout the world. Due to the lack of education concerning this disease, many myths as to how AIDS is contracted is spread. Contrary to what people…

pubic lice. Pubic Lice is an STD caused by a small, light brown, flat, wingless insect called Phthirus pubis. It looks like a crab and so the STD is also called "crabs" or "cooties". This is because the insect has claws like a crab, which it uses to…