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Public Policy Issues as State and Local Levels

have stayed essentially the same for decades and that single mothers are most often poverty-stricken. Social Welfare programs, ...

Heart Failure Readmissions

The incidence of heart failure is so great, it has become a public health concern. The readmission rates are very high for heart f...

Crimes Against Medicare

The Office of Inspector General, Department of Health & Human Services publishes several reports each year in addition to giving t...

"Cancer Alley" and Environmental Justice

This paper describes the case made against Shell Oil Company by the residents of "Cancer Alley," a stretch of the Mississippi with...

Treating Childhood Obesity

This 10 page paper gives an overview of childhood obesity. This paper includes how combining mental health treatment with family h...

Politics and Health

If public health and health care could be integrated, it would result in numerous benefits, however, there are barriers and challe...

Epidemiology and Climate Change

It should be clear that the health of the planet has a direct impact on the health of humans. In fact, each has an effect on the o...

Safety and Health

also places emphasis on the role of ongoing training and self improvement. Even if we look at commercial models for the way an org...

Pediatric Asthma and Interventions of Public Health Peer Education

In fifteen pages this paper features the results of a Chicago case study regarding the importance of peer education for families o...

Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Child & Adolescent Obesity/U.S.

"hyperlipidemia, hypertension, blood glucose disturbances, Type 2 diabetes, sleep apnea and asthma," while emotional effects inclu...

Health Promotion Proposal/Childhood Obesity

low self-esteem," but there are also serious health repercussions that can follow children into their adult years (Henry and Royer...

Epidemiology Questions

likelihood of autism to occur and to be noticed. d. To calculate the increase in autism between 1987 and 2002 we need to calculate...

Nigeria - Health

this country (Hargreaves, 2002). Tuberculosis is another one (Hargreaves, 2002). It has to do with a lack of inoculations against ...

Child Development Activities 2

floor so the babies can crawl inside and play" (Miller, 1991) Begin to spark imagination "Have blankets and scarves for infants ...

Living With AIDS

combination of these drugs is prescribed although there are some drugs that are combinations within themselves, such as Combivir, ...

Childhood for the “Fat Kids”

of people who are constantly trying to lose weight, if they were heavy as adolescents they are at increased risk of dying younger ...

Fighting Global Hunger

a major concern for not only national leaders but individuals, activists and support groups as well. For decades now, people have ...

Poverty and the Role of Education

In a paper of four pages, the writer looks at global poverty. Efforts to fight poverty through education are examined. Paper uses ...

Definitions of Poverty and its Effects

to the industrial subsistence patterns of today. If we define poverty from a strictly numeric perspective, as the so-called "pove...

Schools, Families and Poverty

lived within the poverty level in 1994 (Rigsby 12). This is based on the designation made by the federal government that any fami...

Global Poverty Reduction

International releases an annual Corruption Perception Index, which does not seek to measure actual levels of corruption present i...

Poverty in Thailand: Internal or External Causes?

extending on into her future. Under the leadership of Pridi Banomyong (a man whose life had been immersed in the effort to ...

Poverty, Class and Worldview

to more radical ideas from the people they meet socially and through education. Each individual is likely to believe that their wa...

Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

population. Roosevelt called for "a decent standard of living for all individual men and women and children." He said, "Freedom fr...

World Community and Poverty's Effects

our own sense of security has somewhat eroded. This is true not only from a security threat standpoint that the discontent people...

Comparison of Contemporary Poverty and Charles Dickens' Depiction of Nineteenth Century Poverty in Hard Times

rather than the shameful exception" (Trevelyan, quoted in Johnson, 274). But even more dramatic was the change in attitude towa...

A Poverty Explanation

In nine pages the reasons why poverty exists are probed with a culture of poverty thesis, the importance of a work ethic with refe...

Poverty and Children

the Institute on Race and Poverty (2000), an area of "concentrated poverty" occurs when forty percent or more of the population of...

Contemporary Society and Poverty Causes

the student to consider the fact that those in poverty typically do not have many of lifes basic necessities, such as enough food,...