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Social Sciences and the Connection Between Causal Explanations and Empirical Regularities

cause with effect, regardless of the approach being employed (Causal Mechanisms, 2003). To this end, empirical regularities play ...

Children, Obesity, and Its Impact

Within the last thirty years in the United States, the rate of childhood obesity has more than doubled as it was estimated that on...

A Community Health Plan for Obesity

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

America and Obesity

2, diabetes. Today, according to the National Institutes of Health, Type 2 diabetes accounts for at least 30 percent of all new ch...

Description and Explanation of Collaborative Leadership

is not a leader because he or she is not leading the team in all aspects of the job or task (University of Edinburgh, 2002). Coll...

Health in Richmond County NY

This essay offers an overview of health and safety in Richmond County, NY (Staten Island). Demographic data and health data are in...

Obesity: Under-Diagnosis

This paper offers an abstract for study that pertains to the under-diagnosis of obesity. One page in length, no sources are cited....

Obesity/Chronic Disease

This paper pertains to chronic disease and its causes, focusing specifically on the influence of environmental factors, such as ac...

Treatment Options for Eating Disorders

In ten pages the components of bulimia, anorexia, and obesity eating disorders are examined in terms of treatment alternatives. T...

Crime Explanations by Social Theories

respond to them in that way and then the deviant reacts to the stimulus by engaging in untoward behavior (2005). This theory helps...

Brazil's Obesity Problems

in the US are 20.7% (Martorell, 2000). In general terms the many developing counties appeared to have obesity consecrated in the ...

Consumerism and Television for Children

endless parade of gorgeous people living fabulous lives; it is attractive and seductive, and that makes it an ideal platform for m...

Adolescents and Health

the ages of 12 and 19 were considered overweight (Surgeon General News, 2005). If that werent enough, this number is nearly triple...

Methodology Proposal on Depression and Obesity

- take the weight of the patient in pounds, divide this number by the square of the height in inches, and multiply this value by 7...

Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease

in both hypertension and other forms of cardiovascular disease. Though the overall mortality rates for coronary heart disease h...

Contemporary Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In five pages this paper considers 3 contemporary problems from the theoretical perspectives of Emile Durkheim including infant ab...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

decrease costs, which seems to be counter to increasing spending. Increasing spending on diabetic screening and testing, however,...

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...

Explanation of Social Theories

In ten pages this paper explains such social theories as alienation, social stratification, social strain, differential associatio...

Explanation of Mersenne Prime

In five pages this paper considers the Mersenne Prime in an information overview that includes its formula. Eight sources are cit...

Unique Murderers and Criminological Explanations

an early incident sent Gacy to prison for molesting a teenager and then his wife divorced him (1997). After he served a short pris...

Explanation of Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product

In five pages GDP and GNP are defined and discussed in terms of the differences between them. Four sources are cited in the bibli...

Obesity and Childhood

to play unsupervised or accompany them to a park. Immense social and economic changes have dictated shifts in how families ...

Community Obesity and Health Promotion

his ideal weight yet less than that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a ...

Fast Food Industry Obesity Case of Caesar Barber

and asked why he had been gaining weight, the doctor might have brought up his diet. Indeed, it seems common knowledge that fast f...

African American Writers/On Each Other

"this beautiful/and terrible thing," which human beings find as "needful a air" and as "usable as earth," will finally belong to b...

W.E.B. Du Bois/Double Consciousness

of measuring ones soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity" (Du Bois ch. 1, para. 3). In other words,...

Cognitive Learning Theories

information, linking new to old knowledge, schema, and scripts" (NSW HSC Online, n.d.). The major premise in the cognitive schoo...

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, Transtheoretical Change Model, and Rogers' Person Centered Therapy

Transtheoretical Model - Stages of Change Although change is typically perceived a an event at some specific point in time, it is...

Full Option Science System (FOSS)

. the scientific enterprise is both what we know (content) and how we come to know it (process)" (Lawrence Hall of Science, 2005)....