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Childhood Obesity/Focus on Kaneohe, HI

Melnyk, 2001, p. 606). Children today live in a social and cultural climate that "idealizes thinness," and also "stigmatizes being...

Using PrOACT

moving onto the objectives, looking at the alternatives and considering the consequences and the trade offs. In this paper we will...

Disease Management/Hypertension

management (DM) concept Disease management (DM) is defined as a "systematic clinical improvement process," which addresses both ...

Protection from Socialized Medicine

of a minimum wage. As will be discussed below, the same principles apply to health care, not because there is any market-level co...

Reiman's "The Rich Get Richer And The Poor Get Prison" - Drugs

also appear to be constantly fueling the social problem of illegal drug use and drug-based criminal behaviors. In essence, the s...

The Effects of Immobility, Injury, and Aging of Joints

impact on joint function. Typically, fractures are pulled back in place and the injury is immobilized using a plaster cast or som...

The Effects of Second-Hand Smoke on Children

risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke: even small amounts of secondhand smoke exposure can be harmful to peoples health"...

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...

Homelessness, Mental Illness, and the Advocate Role

Housing is of obvious concern as is successful intervention in the destructive pattern of behavior that has led to the homelessnes...

Global Solutions for Health Care from a Social Work Perspective

their infrastructures are concerned, but health care is something that has severe ramifications. That is, the lack of health care ...

The Problem of Inequalities of Health Outcomes for Indigenous People

have indicated that socioeconomic disadvantages are more significant than genetic vulnerabilities (Durie, 2003; National Health Co...

Health Care and the Financial Impact of Y2K Problems

on electronic data will or could be read as the year 1900 rather than 2000. The Y2K problem is real, caused by an outmoded, two-di...

Common Health Problems and Healing Through Nutrition

In fifteen pages Dr. Wright's Book of Nutritional Therapy is discussed in terms of its premise, case studies, and the data it pres...

Problems with Health Care Access in the United States

This issue is examined in eight pages in an argument favoring privatization. Thirty two sources are cited in the bibliography....

New Jersey's Health Care Delivery System and Its Problems

governor should strive to at least make a dent in the problem in the next four years. It seems that the most pertinent problems ar...

Black Youth Gangs in Toronto

reputed leader of a Tamil gang whose pitched battles with rival gangs on the streets of Toronto claimed the "lives of more than a...

Solutions for Health Care Staffing Problems in Rural America

Resource Management Systems," 2007). Acquisition relates to recruiting employees as well as the selection process ("Contemporary P...

Policy Analysis/Gaming in Mississippi

at both the pros and cons of gaming in the state in order to accurately determine and evaluate its social and economic effects. Ba...

Hoarding as a Mental Health Problem

larger disorder, research has revealed that a problem in the fourteenth chromosome may be the culprit (Wilkerson, 2010). Therapis...

The Global Health Problems Posed to Asian Children by AIDS

women are five times more likely to be abandoned at the hospital (Neff-Smith, Spencer and Taval, 2001). The leading cause of aband...

Problems with Regulation/Legislation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act

Health Act also established the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which under the auspices of the U.S. Departm...

Sweden and Germany

A 7 page research paper that compares these two countries. Germany and Sweden share many similarities. They are both democracies, ...

The Marcellus Shale: Drilling and Issues after Recent Environmental Problems

efforts to extract the abundance of natural gas in the Marcellus shale. Table of Contents 1. Introduction 1.1 Glossary 1.2 Pur...

Literary Realism and Social Problems

a very unexpected place: her fears. She is so terrified that life is simply going to pass her by that the thought nearly paralyze...

Social Problems and Children from Broken Homes

counterparts, in that it relates to emotions the students are only just beginning to cultivate. Indeed, college-aged children, wh...

Sociologist Malcolm Klein on Gang Culture as a Social Problem

This paper examines how Malcolm Klein evaluates gang culture's causes, problems, and what solutions he offers in 7 pages. One sou...

Social Problems and the Theories of Emile Durkheim

In ten pages the theories of Emile Durkheim inclusive of anomie are applied to such social problems as poverty, homelessness, and ...

Domestic Violence as a Social Problem

Domestic abuse and its biological and psychosocial factors are the focus of this paper consisting of eight pages. Ten sources are...

Computers and Social Problems

In five pages this report examines the social problems associated with computers and increased technology in the twenty first ce...

Is Addiction a Social Problem or a Disease?

In 4 pages the causes of addiction are considered through examples of biopsychosocial and disease model comparisons. There are fi...