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The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Alcohol Use of Polices Among the Indigenous Population in Australia

(Kelly and Kowalyszyn, 2003; Saggers and Gray, 1997, Weller et al, 1992), however in many instances the attention has been focused...

The Unfair Treatment of Brazilian Indians

celebrations, for example, the calls made by the organization Comissao Indigena 500 Anos actively opposing the celebrations (Lupiy...

Access to Services for People with Disabilities

conversation with MaryAlice Mowry," 2003). Many people do not realize that government benefits aligned with disabilities would be ...

Access To Health Care

strange since the data reported for 1998 was 83 percent of pregnant women who had received care in their first trimester. That fig...

Improving Health Outcomes in the Elderly

In a paper of five pages, the author reviews strategies to improve health outcomes by reducing barriers to health promotoin progra...

The Failure of Health Issues of the Homeless to Be Addressed by NHS Policies

The homeless population in the UK suffer a high level of inequality in terms of quality and access to healthcare services. The pap...

Eye Health Among Australian Indigenous Populations

US and New Zealand have succeeded, in varying degrees, to raise the health standards of their indigenous communities since the 198...

Australia and Substandard Health of the Aboriginal Population

to Aboriginal Australians. Aboriginal Health In writing for the British Medical Societys journal The Lancet, Leeder (1998) expla...

The Issue of Equality and Efforts to Achieve Equality

be representative numbers of minorities within the results. Feminists and activist groups not only took to the equality of opportu...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

goals and interventions which are compatible with those identified in "Healthy People 2010". Eight assessment parameters will be ...

Importance of Health Care Communication

to adopt healthy living habits (Schiavo, 2007). The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) says health communication is ...

Rising Inequality/Threat to Democracy

on the non-working poor" and that adults should be able to support themselves (Burtless 547). However, this position overlooks the...

Problems Facing Native American Nations

This difference resulted in friction between the peoples of this new nation (and in particular its government) and the Native Amer...

Problems Striking a Balance in New Zealand

people who have been misinterpreted in regard to their cultural interactions since their very first contact with Westerners (Rount...

Structural Inequality And Diversity

Plessy vs. Ferguson case in 1896, the court ruled that "separate but equal" was fine, it was okay to have separate schools for whi...

3 Issues Pertaining to Latin American Society

In six pages this research paper discusses women's roles in Latin America and the economic effects, the Catholic Church throughout...

The Health Care System in the United States and Access by Black Americans

have deleterious effects on the health outcomes of the residents in these areas. Many researchers have arrived at the same conclus...

A Review of The Broken Spears The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico

arrival of the Spanish using Aztec omens. Chapter 2 provides us with the first impressions of the Spanish presented from Aztec ey...

Stop Smoking in Psychiatric Ward

Numerous articles conclude that people who have mental health disorders are more likely to smoke than people who do not have such ...

An Overview of the Health Care System in the United States

The estimated increase for 1999 is between 7 and 10 percent.4 Of the expenditures in 1997, 33 percent went towards hospital costs,...

Why are Women Underrepresented at Board Level?

increase the potential for women to gain equality with men, a raft of equality legislation has been introduced in many countries a...

Creating a Greater Level of the Quality in Healthcare Services for Women and Children in Poor Nations

and the developing world. Maternal mortality rates (MMR) are heavily biased towards the poor environments. Overall 98% of the 600,...

Canada's Regionalized Health Care System

others did not. Alberta was one province that did not comply and they lost $3.5 million of federal funding (Clement, 2007). After ...

Diabetes and the Aging Native American Population

serve to further complicate these problems. Many elderly Native Americans suffering with diabetes, for example, may have been att...

Nursing Concerns at Large Hospital System

fail to assure patient safety and a reasonable working environment for themselves. Sutter Health is a large system of hospitals an...

Organizations, Motivation, and Taylorism

et al, 1996). The next step from this sub-division of labour was scientific management, founded by Frederick Winslow Tayl...

Children And Adolescents in the Group Home Environment

to treat our children who suffer from mental, psychological, emotional illnesses and behavior and conduct disorders. But, as of ye...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Health from a Sociological Perspective

having insufficient income to purchase services and items required to maintain good health, with many mothers go to in order to fe...