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Diabetes and African Americans/Epidemiology

interest and relevant population Diabetes mellitus is an umbrella term for a category of chronic metabolic conditions, which are ...

Black Films and Hip Hop Music Videos: Race Representation

is a mixed bag. In films that parody the past like Undercover Brother and in music videos, the most watched genre of film today by...

Community Policing and Terrorism

firing guns and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic, then turned over the ominous recording to a clerk at Circuit City in Mount Lau...

Diabetes in New Mexico and Community Health Nursing

of Health (NMDH) indicates that, as of 2007, it was estimated that 157,930 New Mexico adults, 18 years of age and older, had diabe...

African American Diabetes and Inner City

This paper suggests educational and community outreach projects that would help improve nutrition and level of activity among this...

Hispanic Farm Workers and Threat of Diabetes

In 7 pages the Hispanic community of agricultural workers is examined in terms of its high incidence of diabetes. There are 3 bib...

Overview of Diabetes Mellitus and Its Implications

In six pages diabetes mellitus is discussed in an overview of Type I and Type II and the implications these forms have in the long...

Pancreas and Diabetes

an autoimmune reaction to the antigens that are found in the islet cells located in the pancreas (King, 2005). What happens is th...

Patient Treatment Plan

She surveyed all of the independent living facilities in the local area and chose one; her grown children arranged and conducted t...

Adolescent Type I Diabetes Care Plan

much sugar remains in the blood and too little energy is transferred to other cells. The diabetic needs to take externally adminis...

Nutrition and Health Problems in the Elderly

self-reported diabetes ranged from 1.6% among persons aged 18-34 years to 12.5% among persons aged 65-74 years" (Current Trends Re...

Nursing, Diabetes, and 3 Research Articles

with a study sample of six female diabetes nurse specialists, who worked with a multidisciplinary team offering comprehensive diab...

An Overview of Existing Research on Stroke and Diabetes

In a three page paper, the author reflects on a range of studies on diabetes, stroke, and skin impairment in patients with comorbi...

Type One Diabetes Screening Tool

This research paper reports on the development of a revised, validated screen tool for disorder eating among type one diabetes mel...

Primary Prevention in Diabetic Care

can be easily determined via the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and by testing fasting plasma glucose (FPG), as these tests ar...

Teaching Patients and Students About Disease

There has been a dramatic increase in the number of people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, including an increase in the number of ...

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...

Diabetes Control: A Review of Literature

noted as statistically significant (Strine et al, 2005). The outcomes of this study are presented in a in a table broken do...

Black Lifestyle Choices and Diabetes

self care that is needed to keep diabetes under control and, in actuality, to even prevent is occurrence. While that may seem a c...

Diabetes and the Importance of Local Education Programs

associated with certain environmental factors and many times these factors can be changed to reduce our propensity for developing ...

Culture and Diabetic Management in African Americans

diabetes under control. Theoretical Learning Foundations Diabetes mellitus...

A Diabetes Overview

In nine pages diabetes and its various aspects are considered regarding illness management including medication alternatives, non ...

Black Students Educational Achievement

programs for a specific race or ethnicity. The research question, by default, then, is: What types of educational programs help B...

Du Bois & Washington on Education

times, Washington endeavored to alleviate the fears of the white majority by emphasizing that black people were not a threat to th...

Supermassive Black Holes

2005). Black holes are thought to have originated from the collapse of very large stars, but it is also hypothesized that mini bla...

The Culture, History and Artistry of Black America

vision, no true identity, and certainly does not connect with his African American culture. His mother, however, changes some o...

Black Masculinity

exhibit the most extreme misogynistic trends. Girls are often scantily clad, and dance provocatively. They are often dubbed "hoes"...

Washington & Du Bois/Who Was Right?

separate as the five fingers, and yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress" (quoted by Du Bois 24). This "c...

Marxist View of Black Violence

perspective, which draws on a Marxist perspective, as it examines patterns of "political, economic, social, and cultural organizat...

Post Civil Rights Movement and Black Leadership

In a paper that consists of three pages the history of the U.S. black civil rights movement is examined in terms of mainstream soc...