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HIV and African Americans

This research paper offers an overview of the significance of HIV/AIDS within the black American community. The discussion focuses...

What is Fair Pricing?

The writer looks at the idea of fair pricing explaining what it is and how the perception of fair pricing will vary depending on ...

Two Topics, Self-Efficacy/Childhood Obesity

Self-efficacy is a concept that refers to the degree to which individuals perceive themselves as having the ability and capability...

Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs in Low Income Communities

when put into practice, especially when they targeted "low-income inner-city minority youth" (Thiel & McBride, 1992). They did thi...

Does School Based Intervention Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy

Introduction Teen pregnancy is a very real problem...

UTIs Pressure Sores Pneumonia in the Elderly

higher risk for UTIs than others. Risks include older age, poor hygiene, and/or poor hydration. Two of the greatest risks can be p...

Nursing Course Evaluation

It also is clear that readily accessible primary care services are essential to achieving effective health care reform. The World ...

Fall Prevention in the Elderly in Home Care

percent of that total population lose their ability to walk (Tonarelli, 2010). Hip injuries and falls of any kind can reduce the ...

Visual Images and Communication

forceful idea behind this image is that AIDS should be a collective problem, one that sparks a community-based response. ...

Nursing Home Falls - A Literature Review

of falls in nursing homes, it was essential to collect information from as wide a variety of credible sources as possible. Title s...

Brain Injuries and Their Impacts

Brain injuries can result in tremendous impacts to mental function and even physical performance. The brain is an extremely compl...

Dehydration, Effects and Prevention

has a negative impact on cognitive and physical performance and a loss of 7 percent "can lead to body collapse" (Suhayda and Walto...

Secondary Prevention and Family Violence

facts concerning domestic violence. First of all, research data shows that domestic violence rates are high, as there is lifetime ...

Article Critique of Scott, et al (2006)

and fall-related injuries among the adult clients in home support services. Hypothesis/hypotheses While the hypothesis of the stu...

New Methodologies in Treating Skeletal Injury and Disease

Upper extremity injuries can result in tremendous pain and physical impairment. Treatment approaches vary substantially according...

Public Health Organizations

Both Winslow and Acheson make the link between society and health, and the role of social actions; a concept that was seen in many...

School Programs to Reduce Obesity

The same results were not seen for boys. Shaya and colleagues conducted a similar study in 2008. The results of the empirical re...

Factors Influencing Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in Relation to Health Education

behavioral choices or at-risk status have been indicated. Q-2) What are some barriers to health promotion in your own community?...

The Tertiary Level of Prevention

family violence has occurred relate the importance of a community base and social support mechanisms for reducing recidivism by pe...

Designing Community-Based Prevention

any demographic characteristics. Considering these principles from the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the fact that drug a...

Physical Injuries and the Corresponding Psychological Stress

Life seems to be punctuated with stressful events. These events can be entirely psychological, they can be physical or...

Intimidation

the most recent evolution of this age-old behavior. Cyber-bullying refers to use of any type of technology such as cell phones and...

Anthrax Cause and Response

The disease known as Anthrax is caused by the highly infectious microorganism Bacillus anthracis. The bacteria...

Making People Healthier

of the annual physical checkup (SAMHSA, 2010). By the 1960s, health promotion was gaining in popularity in the U.S. and gained eve...

Hate Crimes Legislation

history, and how politics and media have affected it can help shed light on this relevant issue. The Hate Crimes Prevention Ac...

Importance of Isolation Precautions

most effective forms of primary prevention for the spread of contagious diseases (Gould, 2009). There are five principles regardin...

Liberalized Trade and Economic Growth of Zimbabwe

This 4 page essay studies Zimbabwe and the influence of the WTO and the IMF on AIDS. This paper argues for increased liberalizatio...

Smoking and Lung Cancer in Women

a Machiavelli. This assertion could be argued in challenging the central premise of this article. In fact, in order for effecti...

Bringing CPTED to the University Campus

not directly under campus managements control. University of Tennessee pre-vet student Jessica Smith parked her car after g...

Laws About On-The-Job Injuries

to all workers in the state (U.S. Department of Labor, 2009). The specific qualifying criteria and benefits may differ from one st...