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focusing equally upon causes and prevention as it is upon treatment and sustained recovery (Feig et al, 2006). Also known as uter...
state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, h...
can develop serious complications including limb amputations, blindness, kidney failure, cardiac disease, cerebral hemorrhage, and...
future and freedom for African Americans but there were many racial tensions during this period of Reconstruction with federal arm...
to five-times the risk for CHD, which contrasts sharply with the double risk encountered in African American men. There is also a ...
things for the good of all the community, and that winning is good for all, not just the individual. There are apparently...
in response to cognitive and physiological challenge" (Covelli, 2007, p. 323). Diet: Both the intake of dietary sodium and potas...
hypoglycemia require different nursing responses. Mild hypoglycemia, which is defined by the symptoms listed above and a glucose r...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
making records, and the arrival of Al Bell, who was hired to make Stax a national brand and succeeded so well he ended up the trag...
verbal abuse, neglect or abandonment, and psychological abuse (Tauriac and Scruggs, 2006). Physical abuse is the most common, and...
other ethnic group. Covelli (2007) maintains that risk factors for hypertension in African Americans goes back to precursors of c...
social factors that influence access to care and the application of preventative strategies in African American populations. Th...
and take notice of the horrible injustices around them. Making a society take note of their oppressive nature and the injus...
generally limited, as mentioned, to very menial positions such as messmen, firemen, stewards, and passers (Gibbs, 2001). At the ...
well as aid those Latinos/Hispanics who have been diagnosed with diabetes, nurses have to confront the problems involved with poor...
in this case the whites, because the white people were "sufficiently uncommitted to the values of European culture to make such a...
remain marginalized; when it comes to choice, few believe they have any options at all (Street, 2007). Street notes that whites, a...
2002). However, taking the postcolonial perspective means that ecocritics need to rephrase their questions in order to "broaden th...
a shock for white audiences. Poitier invested his character with dignity and strength, and although later that tactic no longer re...
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...
great deal of information on their Web site. This type of support is referred to as remote because it does not involve face-to-fac...
In six pages the antiabolitionist intent of Stowe's novel is compared with the African American stereotypes it was responsible for...
In nine pages diabetes and its various aspects are considered regarding illness management including medication alternatives, non ...
African slaves brought to the New World were sent to what is now the United States (Horton, 1997). Most of the rest went to the Ca...
One of the more interesting roles women took on during the war was as volunteers in the war effort. For...
a "handful" of real designers as opposed to entrepreneurs who launch a clothing line as part of a sort of media empire; Sean Combs...
can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...
This paper traces key events in African American history dating from the time they were free in Africa to the post Civil War era. ...
December 21, 1928, was by far the most productive, as Hurt cut three spirituals and five blues works during this session (Obrecht)...