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Considerations of Stereotypical Cultural Representations in the Literature

be erased, we must do so through more constructive means that taking away one of the most treasured liberties of free societies. ...

Nurses and Pediatric Injury Prevention

educating parents as to the failure of seat belts along to protect young children from injury (Philbrook, et al, 2009). Children a...

Choosing an HR Information System

product will not be of value unless intended users know how to use it and how to gain the greatest benefit from it. Likely the be...

Security and Risk Management

Emergency preparedness is something in which societies often invest tremendous...

Comparing and Contrasting TQM and BPR

result in improvements (Mintzberg et al, 2008; Reed et al, 1996). Defining TQM is difficult, there is no standard definiti...

How Can We Stop Harassment?

understand definition, which looks as harassment not by defining different types of behavior, thats when looking at the impact of ...

The Influence of Environmental Factors on Falls

This paper is an annotated bibliography written in support of a nursing paper examining environmental factors which may influence...

Weight and Self-Esteem

The percentage of obese children between the ages of 6 and 11 was 18 percent in 2012 while 21 percent of adolescents are obese. Th...

The World is Getting Fatter

Obesity is a global issue that is nearly an epidemic. The CDC reported that over the last 30 years, obesity has more than doubled ...

Overweight Children

It is no secret that a large percentage of the American population is overweight or obese. The tragedy is that a large proportion ...

Taking a Toddler’s Blood Pressure

pressure There are three types of high blood pressure observed in children. The first type is called "white-coat" high blood pres...

McDonald's and Obesity; A Case Study

eating. This will help empower them to make decisions regarding their own diet. It will also placed pressure on the companies to c...

Healthy People 2010/Obesity Objective

in nutritional value. High risk also results from the fact that poor neighborhoods frequently lack "well-maintained sidewalks and ...

Children And Obesity

for one full of simple sugars, worthless carbohydrates and empty calories, a cycle perpetuated by parents who fail to provide thei...

Obesity

Human Services: National Institutes of Health, 2008). Actually measuring a persons body fat is not a simple procedure such as step...

Obesity in the United Arab Emirates

the UAE (Join the movement to tackle obesity, 2004). The UAE is the fifth most obese nation in the world, following the "United St...

Preventing Falls

Institute as one of the top 100 hospitals in the country, which set the benchmarks for success (Jackson and Gleason 37). St. Clare...

Delimitations, Summary Sections for Proposed Study

the research team will use a convenience sample of women recruited from a specific geographical area, and the team may choose to l...

What Schools Can Do to Stem the Obesity Epidemic

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Preventing Attacks: A Comparison of Two Approaches in Reducing Susceptibility to Becoming a Victim

The articles reviewed for the purpose of this paper parallel one another quite closely in terms of the criteria that they identify...

Preventing Network Attacks

preventing attacks. Angell contends, in fact, that "only neurotics thing they can use technology to control the real world" (Info...

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...

Health Promotion/Childhood Obesity

14 hours per week of television and spend an average of 6-7 hours per day viewing various media" (LeBlanc, 2003, p. 329. Furthermo...

Preventing Nursing Injury in the Workplace

such as "human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), hepatitis B virus and hepatitis C virus" (Shelton and Rosenthal, 2004, p. 25). The gr...

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...

Action Plan; Reducing Obesity in 18 - 25 Year Olds

of healthcare by primary healthcare givers to the conditions which require more immediate and urgent treatment is understandable (...

Impact Of Intervention Techniques Used In Preventing Workplace Injuries And Illnesses

and disregard on the part of the employer. That Luther feared the same fatal outcome as Joe suffered is reason enough to understa...

Food Addictions, Symptoms and Treatments

took her two children, a toddler and an infant, out in 20 degree cold to get Snickers bars (Eller, 2006). Littleton claims she was...

Critique of Qualitative Study/Nutrition

their level of obesity, but, until this study, little was known as to whether or not there is a "relationship between dieting and ...

Contributing Factors to Adolescent Obesity: A Research Proposal

researchers maintained that obesity is on the rise in adolescent populations and may be the product of social constructs. There ...