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Poverty and the Typification of Poverty in the U.S.

the NASW website discusses poverty and argues that it is about "much more than money alone" (Poverty, 2009). Poverty is the result...

Famine in North Korea

by a number of North Koreans who have defected to escape both the famine and the "repressive political regime" of Kim Jong-Il (Spe...

The Typification of Social Problems

(Bartusch, 1996). These labels are mostly employed to the powerless, disadvantaged, and poor, in part because the background goes ...

China and Tibet

as the conflict between the two has been going on perhaps since the treaty was first agreed upon. One of the conflicts that altere...

SWOT Analysis of a Construction Site's Hazardous Working Conditions

project, with each employee being run through the rules, tested for their knowledge of the rules and demonstrating the correct and...

High Nursing Turnover Rate

based on a research study that surveyed over 2,000 RNs who provide direct nursing care in three mid-western hospitals. This result...

Georgia Tech - Parking Case Study

cost $4,000 per parking space to construct. Ground parking lots cost $1,000 per space to construct. The mathematical model upon w...

Lincoln Community Hosptial Cost Regression

$4,722,847 (anticipated revenue) and then dividing that by 25 (number of beds) x $119,655 (the cost for each additional bed added)...

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...

Article Review of Barbara A. Dennison's 'Television Viewing and Television in Bedroom Associated with Overweight Risk Among Low Income Preschool Children'

significantly to the problem. The allure of the silver screen, whether that screen be that of a television or a game pad, has tra...

Corporate Conspiracy of 'Junk Food'

had a disease, there would be a widespread and enthusiastic campaign to find a cure. However, because obesity is not considered a ...

Studying Lifestyles of Sedentary and Teenage Obesity

obesity, research includes differences in reports between teens and their parents (Goodman, Hinden and Khandelwal, 2000); and stud...

Global Epidemic Prevention of Obesity

a false ideal body weight, there is an epidemic within the psychological world of those adolescents and indeed, people of all ages...

Case Study Analysis of Disease and Heredity

which would have put him at greater risk for dying of heart disease, regardless of his genetic makeup. Smoking is considered the ...

Narrowing Protection and Arteries Structure

Tunica media. This is the middle layer of the artery wall, composed of smooth muscle and elastin. It is the muscle of...

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...

Major Issues in Obesity

at least 30 kg/m2" (Allison et al, 1999, p. 1530). It was found that approximately 22% of adult Americans, about 40.5 million pers...

High Fructose Corn Syrup and Obesity

prevalence of obesity more than doubled, from 15 percent to almost one-third of the adult population" (Poirot). As it relates to c...

Increasing Spending to Hold Down Costs

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

Obesity and America's Youth

obese, but that their lifestyle, perhaps a lifestyle set down by generations, is the reason for the obesity. The nation cannot ent...

Children and Obesity

above the ideal standards based on the National Center for Health Statistics growth charts (Jerum and Melnyk, 2001). While weight ...

An Article on Obesity, Diabetes, and the Effect of Estrogen Reviewed

instance, causes "rapid onset of severe hyperglycemia associated with the progressive loss of islet area and insulin immunoreactiv...

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...

Workplace and Obesity

speaker can establish a certain intimacy with the audience by asking them if they have seen the movie Shallow Hal. Audience member...

Managing Weight and the Influences of Environmental, Psychological, and Physiological Factors

highest prevalence of overweight teens (British Medical Association, 2004). Research indicates the prevalence of overweight and o...

Obesity, Surgery for Weight Loss, and Their Psychological Impacts

may bear little resemblance to the overweight person from before. Many who have weight reduction surgery also feel that they are...

Obesity Research and Motivation

Lingering Myths about Content and Process Models As shown above, recent research is starting to dispel the myths of one-sid...

Childhood Obesity and Public Health Nursing

The funding agency chosen for this program is the Childrens Aid Society, a nonprofit organization that has been dedicated to impro...