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Employers' Tool for Healthcare Outcomes Management

that which takes his BMI past the boundary for obesity (Fontanarosa, 1998). Either condition is a leading contributor to poor hea...

SURFBOARD RIDING AND OBESITY

And obesity is definitely an issue that needs to be addressed in Australia. Though the issue is a high-profile one in the nation, ...

Social Justice : Hiv/Aids, Obesity, Aging

HIV/AIDS cannot be spread through hugging or touching someone with the virus, Americans are still very much afraid of this disease...

Problem of Obesity

Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) is one of the main ways that the problem of obesity is tracked in the US (Hensrud and Klein, 20...

Fast Food Nation

environmental issues literally for decades - such as when actor Ted Danson announced decades ago that the ocean would be "dead" in...

Persuasive Essay on Why People Should Not Eat Fast Food and Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation

products. In addition, Schlosser and many nutritionists have argued that eating fast food is responsible for a record number of c...

Article Critique/Dypsnea in the Obese

review or even a description of their own research, which led them to the conclusions that they indicate. The inclusion of even a...

How Research is Used by a Distribution Company

generalized research which took place many years ago. In more recent years there has been research that can be seen as specificall...

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...

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 (...

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...

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...

Fast Food, Microwaves and Society

metropolitan area and 14.1 for the affluent Westside" says the L.A. County Department of Public Health (Mcnew). Fast food restau...

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...

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...

Ethical Issues with Regard to Marketing Prepackaged Foods to Schools

of revenue for under-funded schools, it is difficult to get them removed (Van Staveren and Dale, 2004). They contain, in addition ...

Obesity Worldwide

country, the often ate "traditional diets ... high in grains, fruit and vegetables and low in fat" (Hoffman). Once they arrived in...

Media's Responsibility for the Obesity Epidemic

would work to resolve the problem and in fact, some people report that religious activity has helped them lose weight. The author ...

Obesity in the United States

balance between calories-in and calories-out differs for each person" (MedlinePlus, 2008). Frighteningly enough, CNN (2007) claims...

Variables and Clusters in Research

those who have a body mass index of below 35 m-2 tend to have similar activity patterns when the energy expenditure levels are cor...

Obesity in America

genetic problem. The first position-that one can eat right and be healthy despite obesity-is a part of a recent fat acceptance mov...

Article Critique/Online Cancer Support Groups

these elements were viewed as variables that could significantly influence patients attitudes(Im, et al, 2007, p. 706). This quest...

Data Coding and Measurement Analysis

and are categorized by those familiar with and trained in criminology, law enforcement or other area of expertise. Methods of Clas...

Article Critique//Charge Nurse Competencies

does not address the topic of specific competencies. In other words, the most recent literature that is even remotely related to t...

Qualitative Reasoning

variety of researchers have shown the value of the use of qualitative designs in the assessment of best practice methods in health...

Evidence of the Integration of Quantitative Methods in U.S. Society

This 8 page paper provides an overview of the use of qualitative methods in U.S. society. This paper uses examples from AT&T, Coc...

Women Asylum Seekers and the Welfare State in the UK; Research Methodology

and the scenario and has the aim of developing that knowledge and proposition that can then be used for further research (Yin, 199...

Codebook for Social Research and a Research Prospectus for Cardiovascular Disease (CVD) Among African Americans

5. Poor INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE CODING Inductive coding, which is represented most by the more open questions regarding t...

Shift Work and Human Research Management: A Research Proposal

other health care organizations commonly require the use of shift workers in order to provide the necessary care for patients arou...