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Childhood Obesity Statistics, Public Health Assessment

This paper pertains to low-income community assessment, and then presents statistics on childhood obesity prevalence. Three pages...

6 Questions on Calculations and Statistics II

was close to the middle of the distribution; and that values for 8, 9, 10 and 11 hours were higher than those for 3, 4, 5 and 6 ho...

Latin America to Ontario, Canada Migration

or region (University of Calgary, 2004). Trends in Toronto According to Bourne (1999), Toronto seems to be a magnet for im...

U.S. Immigration

poverty among immigrants who have been in the country less than ten years was 34.0 percent in 1994 and 22.4 percent in 2000; the r...

Teen Pregnancy and Case Management Protocol

care, family support, employment (financial support) issues, etc. For a case manager, this would involve arranging counseling on t...

Community Colleges, Hispanic Students, and the Impacts of Financial Aid During the First Year

is accentuate by the way in which students are admitted to college. Higher level institutions rate high schools and so they will l...

The Impact of the Growing World Population on the Supply of Fresh Water

cycle, nitrogen cycle and water cycles have been disrupted or destroyed, and those are just the cycles that are known. It may not ...

Middle School Curriculum Addition of Spanish Proposal

million people, 75 percent of whom speak Spanish (IMAC, 2005). Spanish is spoken by almost 400 million people in the world (IMAC, ...

Economic Stratification and Globalization

This thesis seems particularly valid when we consider the fact that an estimated two billion people in the world today earn less t...

Murder and the Dark Side of Domestic Violence

Through various case studies, Schechter found that many women were hesitant about coming forward to name their abusers, because th...

US Labor Unions in the Future

more male members than female (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2004). * Of Whites, Asians, Hispanics, Latinos and Blacks, Blacks are m...

Economy of Indonesia

costs in 2004 in Indonesia are 35 percent higher than they were in 1996 but there is no commensurate increase in productivity (Gue...

Income and Race Impacts Upon Crime Rates

structure to the ubiquitous bad guy, "society." It was only a number of years later that we began admitting that there is a...

American Epidemic of Obesity

is obese children (Neff 2359). Other health risks associated with obesity include, but are not limited to: high cholesterol, hea...

Nursing and Statistics

which both of those impacts are important. The question of what statistics should be collected in a medical facility, however, is...

U.S. Foreign Educated Nurse Licensing

also point out that "developed countries may not be well served by international nurse recruitment if it prevents them from addres...

Preventing Juvenile Delinquency

and drug abuse violations at a rate of 1,447.1, 1032.7, 699.5 and 561.8 per 100,000 youth population (National Center for Juvenile...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Native Americans and the Effects of Diabetes

The American Diabetes Association (2003) reports that individuals with diabetes are twice as likely to suffer from heart disease a...

Analysis of Costs of Decubitus Ulcers in Elder Care Facilities

Furthermore, if the ulcers end up in hospitalization, the nursing home is responsible for those costs as well. Even if the patient...

South Africa and Tuberculosis

significant need for labour in this industry; this contributed to the massive expansion in respect to the urban African populatio...

Statistical Analysis of the S.S. Titanic

journey to the United States. One problem is that the passenger and crew lists have been inaccurate due to misspellings and inaccu...

Chicago Veterans Attitudes and Characteristics

and 3,190 were interred in Illinois seven national cemeteries (Veterans Administration, 2003). This, of course is a small percenta...

America and Child Abuse

to mothers drowning their own children for convenience. Society must care for its children. There is a need for the government ...

Pathology and Treatment of Liver Cancer

Cancer, 2003). Of course the disease is serious, but it is potentially curable with the surgical intervention not accessible to m...

Domestic Market Challenges of GM

2002 (General Motors, 2003). Car sales declined by 6 percent and truck sales declined by 8 percent as compared to October 2002 sal...

Canadian Income Gender Gap

pay ratio would be 100 percent, if women earn less, the ratio is less than 100 percent and if they earn more, the ratio would be ...

Adult Literacy and Early Development of Language

In fourteen pages early literacy and language development are considered in terms of adult literacy, the policy of Welfare to Work...

Elementary Students and Alternative Assessments

are nothing more than a type of achievement test which primarily measures knowledge of standard English and exposure to the cultur...