Just need to know numbers. I dont know where to find it. Ive googled everywhere. A reference would be AMAZING. How much money does the US spend informing the public of ways to prevent disease and live a healthier life?

The reason you can't find anything is that you have misunderstood the terminology. I probably won't answer your question, but let me just clarify below.

When you hear "preventive medicine", it may sound like it's talking about informing people of living more healthily, but don't be misleaded. Preventive medicine actually pertains to medical malpractice. It's talking about preventing doctors from making mistakes in their practice. When you hear that 40% of all healthcare costs go to preventive medicine, it means that for every $100 a patient pays a hospital for a treatment, $40 goes to malpractice insurance. The reason that hospitals and doctors are losing money and that so much money goes to malpractice insurance is that doctors are being sued unreasonably and abusively. Depending on how persuasive a lawyer and his/her patient client is, an obsetrician/gynecologist can be sued as much as $10 million for a miscarriage. Among that $10 million, the patient probably gets to keep less than 30% of it. Most of it goes to the greedy lawyer. True, when a physician makes a mistake, he should be held accountable, but we don't need the lawyer making multi-million dollor profits. This is why health care costs are so high. When hospitals are being essentially robbed by medical malpractice lawyers, patients ultimately have to pay the price, and unless we have tort reform, this will not get better. Unfortunately, everybody thinks doctors are rich, and people don't care if a doctor gets sued a couple million bucks (the average MD in the US makes about $140,000 per year. Believe me, it's not much for how much expensive training they go through, work they do, and how much they get sued.).

Back to your question about informing the public of ways to prevent disease and lie a healthier life. This is not the responsibility of the healthcare system. In fact, it would be ineffective for the healthcare system to do this. We rely on journalism and the media for things like this. This is the job of someone like Dr. Sanjay Gupta on CNN, for example. You can't really throw money into getting something expressed in the media.

Ok, so, my dad got this really small,red,novelty optical mouse he got as a price from work (1.7×2.5 inches) and it's really cute so he gave it to my mom since his hands are big but my mom doesn't use it so I decided to use it for the first time since I borrowed her laptop and I was just wondering what health problems can arise from prolonged use of this mouse.

Any condition that exerts pressure on the median nerve at the wrist can cause carpal tunnel syndrome. Tendon inflammation resulting from repetitive work, such as uninterrupted typing, can also cause carpal tunnel symptoms.

http://www.medicinenet.com/carpal_tunnel_syndrome/article.htm

Buy a better one. It's not worth the discomfort.

We had a baby 3 months ago, but I am looking for health insurance that is good and affordable for my wife. Any suggestions?

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Here you can get free quotes from different health insurance companies in your area, its the best way to find an afforable health insurance with a reliable company.

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We had a baby 3 months ago, but I am looking for health insurance that is good and affordable for my wife. Any suggestions?

Yea it sucks how our health-care system hasn't caught up yet. It makes me furious. Anyhow, I've heard Blue Cross/Blue Shield is good and I believe it's the most inexpensive. I had Cigna for a while and that was good. Health-Net is pretty good only if you don't have any pre-existing conditions otherwise they really raise the premium. Look into Eatna as well. I've heard there a little more pricier in comparison to the others but I've also heard that they seem to cover more.

My health insurance is through my employer but I have to pay part of the premium and it is deducted from my paycheck each pay period. I am filing my taxes and am being asked if the premiums are paid for with after-tax dollars. Any answers?

Premiums are tax deductable as a part of your medical expenses if you are filing long form. You add up every co-pay you made to doctors, hospitals, and prescriptions and the total cost you paid for these premiums and then you get a percent of that total back on your taxes. Anything that you paid for any type of health care is deductable as long as you have a receipt (or in the case of health premiums you pay) they are on the W2.

We would not have any kind health insurance to cover any thing that would arise.

The work we will be doing will be strictly volunteer.

Are you traveling from the continental US? If so, then you shouldn't have anything to worry about. I've visited Hawaii several times and never had to worry about my health.

The tourist industry is huge, and there are lots of military personnel traveling back and forth so most diseases or illnesses on islands or mainland travel back and forth. You won't be exposed to anything new.

What type of qualities would you want your health care worker to have.

Like compassion, good social skills. ETC.

And if you can how do those qualities help make a good health care worker?

I think being non judgemental is extremely important. You want to be able to talk to your health care professionals without feeling embarrassed or like you're scum. empathy is important too, put yourself in your clients shoes so you can understand how they feel and so you can explain things to them in language they will understand.

the most important things you want from a health care professional is good treatment and to do that you need to understand what is wrong and what needs to be done about it and you want to feel like what you say is not being judged and no one else will find out about it which comes down to the health care workers attitude and whether it inspires trust. and both of these come from a good, non judgemental attitued and empathy

i need to write an article about healthy living. i already have a structure:

para 1: talk about someone who was unhealthy, the consequences, how they improved, how they are now

para 2:health tips

para 3: personal health changes

the main problem i have is how to start it… suggestions?

thanks

It helps if you are healthy yourself.

I'm researching and am able to find lots of information comparing different countries and how much they spend on health care within their total GDP. However I can't find information of how GDP changes within one single country such as France or Canada, when they switched from their old health care system to a universal health care system? Does GDP in this area decrease or increase.

goes up as both neither patients nor doctors are interested in keeping costs down