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African Americans and Health Disparities

This research paper pertains to health disparities that are evident among African Americans and then focuses specifically on type...

Public Health Outreach for Pregnant Women for an African American Population

15 pages and 19 sources. This paper considers the importance of public health outreach for women who are pregnant, especially wom...

Health Inequalities and Vulnerable Populations

This research paper discusses health disparities among African Americans from a public health perspective. Three pages in length, ...

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...

Healthcare Disparities, African American Residents of West Virginia

This research paper discusses disparities in health outcomes that characterize the African American population of Mineral County, ...

Health Education Professional Organizations and their Websites

This research paper offers an overview of the websites for the following health education professional organizations: the Society ...

African Americans and the Lack of Mental Health Resources In African-American Communities Has Created A Mental Health Crisis, Especially The Incarceration Of African-American Males

for decades to be a disease of the insane, mental conditions like depression that intensify juvenile delinquency have finally been...

African Americans and Racism

of the African Americans, up until just before the Second World War, the United States was also apparently guilty of trying to eng...

Uninsured Americans - The Racial Demographic

and whites (Overview of the uninsured ..., 2005). The picture is somewhat better for African-Americans. They comprise 12% of the...

African American Generals

anonymity and confidentiality. In any research that is expected to be effective, informative, and beneficial in any way it is impe...

Qualitative and Quantitative Research Studies

At the same time, it is also the case that Black women...

African American Playwright August Wilson

as befits an author who had been writing virtually one play a year since Ma Rainey had its first reading in 1982 at the Eugene ONe...

U.S. Workforce and the Role of African American Women

In 3 pages this paper discusses how women's involvement in the U.S. labor force was profoundly influenced by the role of African A...

Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

This 25 page paper provides an overview of the current literature regarding CVD in African American patients. Bibliography lists ...

Disparities in Cancer Health

at the greatest risks for cancer 20% of whites lack insurance coverage, and have a much lower risk for cancer Speaker Notes Canc...

Overview of Recidivism

continue to rise" (Hanke, 1993, pp. 22). Baltimore set an unenviable record for the number of homicides in 1992 of 331, which...

African Americans and the U.S. System of Criminal Justice

the largest percentage of ethnicity in the prison population were whites. Then, there was a huge jump in the numbers with an incre...

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 ...

Disparities in Health Care Access

Not every American has the same opportunity to access and receive quality health care services. There are a number of social, econ...

Blacks' Relationship to Whites/Sociological Analysis

this was the stance of antebellum Southerners who saw slavery as a functional and crucial part of their economic system. Propon...

The Course of African Americans Through the History of the United States

injustice of it all is recognized today but at the time preceding the civil war there was little sympathy for the black men, women...

Pontiac, Michigan and African Americans County Public Health Outreach Services

In ten pages this paper discusses a county public health outreach program for African Americans who have been consistently denied ...

Complexities Of Delivering Health Care In America

because they do not have the means to get medical attention (Center for American Progress, 2007). Health care costs seem to rise e...

Civil Rights' Struggles of African American Women

Rights Movement would emerge. From a sociological standpoint, Robnett recognized that dangers inherent in applying feminist stan...

Critical Assessment of the Article "African American University Students"

Steward and Neil, p. 88). They continue: "... findings suggest that todays African American students are somewhat consistent in be...

American Medical Policies and Black Americans

rapid rate in the African-American community. Even with the growing number of new cases of HIV, some African Americans are still r...

Economic Self Sufficiency and the Role of the African American Church

This author notes that, "The church fought against the social injustices that African Americans faced in America," which is clearl...

The Religious Views that Influence African American Beliefs

5 pages and 3 sources. This paper considers the nature of African American religious beliefs as they influence specific social/cu...

Black Americans in the Construction Industry

Kingdom - is still predominantly that of white male, with a low representation of ethnic minorities, including African Americans i...

The Legacy of Billie Holiday

music, which she may have initially embraced as a kind of personal salvation.3 While male lovers would betray her, seductive jazz...