A Better Life through Exercise and Proper Nutrition
A Better Life Joshua Wilkinson Utilizing Information in College Writing Com 125 Instructor Melissa Simms-Powell August 05, 2007 Within the last few decades th....

A Shortage of Care
We hear about it in newspapers, on television and over the radio. Today there is a shortage of nurses and healthcare workers and the problem is going to get worse over the next couple decades with the baby boomer generation getting older. The statistics show us just how bad this d....

Addressing Childhood and Adolescent Behavioral Problems
Introduction This paper shall examine the field of child psychology in respect to the topic of conduct disorder (CD). In child psychology, conduct disorder is an extremely difficult subject to accurately address and clarify, due primarily to the need to distinguish between normal childhood behavi....

AIDS the Dibilitating Disease
Since the first AIDS cases were reported in 1981, through mid-1994 more than 402,000 AIDS cases and more than 241,000 deaths have been reported in the United States alone. This is only the tip of the iceberg of HIV infection, however. It is estimated that nearly 1 million Americans had been infecte....

Alcohol Abuse in College Students
As stated by the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department of Boston University School of Public Health, based on the number and proportion of 18-24 year olds enrolled in college, data on alcohol involvement in injury deaths among 18-24 year olds and survey responses, we calculated the numbers of ....

Beagles: The new victim of animal testing
Beagles: The new Victim of Animal Testing Using animals for testing is definitely wrong and should be banned. They have just as much rights as we do. All day humans are using defenseless animals for cruel and often useless tests. The animals dont have a way to fight back. This is why there ....

Brain Drain in sub-Saharan Africa
http://drugabuseresource.com/drug-abuse-psychology.html The effects of migration of health professionals is bitterly felt in sub-Saharan Africa. Large parts of the continent have effectively no health care at all, with only 600,000 health care workers for a population of 682 million. In Uganda,....

Canada's Health Care System
Introduction Canada is the second largest country in the world in total area and the third largest in land area. It occupies approximately 40% of the North American continent. It is so large that it spans six different time zones. Even though Canada is a huge country, it is sparsely populated.....

Celebrating 75 years of Dettol
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Dettol and Safety have become synonymous terms over the years of its existence. Starting off as an Antiseptic liquid, it has built a relationship of trust and protection and is one of the most trusted brands in the country. Over the years, it has tried various brand extensions ....

changed and changing Korean Constitution
1. Prelude The Constitution is the supreme norm in a country. All national institutions should be found by the Constitution, which should be the standard of interpreting every legal order. However, the Korean Constitution has been a decoration under the long dictatorship. Although the Korea....

Child Obesity Is Not Gluttony
Child Obesity Is Not Gluttony. Approximately 30.3 percent of children ages 6 to 11 are overweight and 15.3 percent are obese.(AOA Fact Sheet) The number of children and adolescents who are overweight and/or obese are now higher than it has ever been before. Childrens weight problems are due....

Childhood and Adolescent behavioral problems
Childhood and Adolescent Behavioral Problems This paper shall examine the field of child psychology in respect to the topic of conduct disorder (CD). In child psychology, conduct disorder is an extremely difficult subject to accurately address and clarify, due primarily to the need to distingu....

Childhood Obesity, Who's fault is it?
Why Child Obesity is a Sociological Problem My hypothesis has gradually changed as I learned exactly what was meant by a sociological problem. There have been plenty of discussions as to the fact that child obesity is a problem, the causes, and possible solutions, but it wasnt until recent....

Children and Health Services
Children and Health Services Synopsis This issue of uninsured children has become a nation wide dilemma and concern. Many factors related to race/ethnicity, age, health status of the child, and the socioeconomic characteristics of the family, have added to the problem. After researching the su....

cloned organs
Cloning and Cloned organs Successful cloning became notable when Dolly, the first mammal to be cloned from adult DNA of another sheep was created. Feb. 14, 2003 she lived to be six years old and died of lung cancer (Cloning Fact Sheet). There are a few different ways one could go to get a cloned ....

concealed weapons
Concealed weapons and gun awarness Pro There have been many controversial, religious and political issues addressing gun control, concealed weapons and banning fire-arms in the U.S. that have been going on for many years. Gun Control is an action of the government that i....

Constitutional Case Studies: Same-Sex Marriages
Constitutional Case Studies: Same-Sex Marriages Same-sex marriage has been one of the most disputed topics since the 1950's and continues to reemerge even now. What makes this such a popular topic is due to several reasons. First, same-sex marriage is one of the hottest election issues debated b....

Crime Data Comparison: Murder Rates in The Big City and in The Crime Capital 2001-2006
Running head: CRIME DATA COMPARISON: MURDER RATES IN THE BIG CITY AND IN THE CRIME CAPITAL 20012006 Crime Data Comparison: Murder Rates in The Big City and in The Crime Capital 20012006 Jeremy Espinoza University of Phoenix CJA/323 September 27, 2007 Steve ....

cultural competence in social work
Running head: CULTURAL COMPETENCE IN SOCIAL WORK Cultural Competence in Social Work Cultural Competence in Social Work The purpose of this paper is to address cultural competence; both define it and illustrate how it is applicable to the practice of Social ....

Cultured Fat
Cultured Fat In the last forty years many things have changed in American culture, from the way Americans act to the way they eat. These cultural changes are not always in the best interest of the American people, many of which put their health and self esteem in grave danger. Changes in cultur....

Do Helmets Really Help Hard Heads?
Helmets for motorcycle riders are for safety. Helmets have helped save lives since the 1920s. Many people for helmet laws have used the saving lives as well as money spent on accidents and fatalities. Most states have adopted laws but there are few that let the riders chose. Motorcycle helmet la....

Drugs and Abuse
Abuse of drugs can have effects on the user even after the use of drugs has stopped. Different drugs produce different effects, depending on the user, type of drug, and severity of abuse. New research is done every day in the area of drug abuse that makes finding accurate results on the broad topi....

Ellis Island (immigration)
Ellis Island Much of what we say, eat, and even do is connected to something that an immigrant brought to this country years ago. Many of the foods that we as Americans enjoy, such as pastas, burritos, or even some types of sausages were brought here by Italians, Mexicans, and Ger....

Ethical Standards
ETHICAL STANDARDS FOR HUMAN RESEARCH During our team meeting we discussed the concerns associated with how researches involving human subjects are conducted and how the Nurember trials ensured the participates well being by instituting informed voluntary consent, assessing risk factor while maint....

Ethics of addiction
Philosophy on ethics 12/1/06 The ethics of addiction Critical Essay Addiction in America is seen to be an illness in the populations eyes. Being an addict is known to be the worst thing that you could be. The cliché of it all is that if you are an addict you dont know how to have ....

Euthanasia
The right to die with dignity and grace is one of a humans basic rights. Physician assisted suicide (PAS) and Euthanasia are highly argued issues in America and the world today. PAS is the ending of a persons life painlessly for mercy. We are hearing more horror stories about elderly killin....

Family and Childcare Issues for Single Head of Households
Abstract This paper is about some of the varied issues that families with only a single parent face is comparison to those with two parents, focusing mainly on, but not limited to, the problems with healthcare and childcare. As well as stating the problems and possible reason behind them, this p....

Family Planning
I. Cambodia Family planning helps couples to space the births of their children and to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Some family planning methods also help people avoid sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. In Cambodia, contraceptive use has increased and fertility rates have de....

Family Planning in Cambodia and Vietnam
I. Cambodia Family planning helps couples to space the births of their children and to prevent unwanted pregnancies. Some family planning methods also help people avoid sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV. In Cambodia, contraceptive use has increased and fertility rat....

Fast Food Frenzy
There is a growing epidemic of childhood obesity About 17 percent of U.S. children are considered obese and many doctors think heavy consumption of calorie-laden fatty fast food is partly to blame. I'd like to hear what readers think. In an era when childhood obesity is exploding, it's a scandal ....

Food industry in thailand
Executive summary Thai Pineapple Public Company Limited or TIPCO, TIPCO is major company in Thailand, TIPCO are doing in many types of business for example Petroleum & construction, Food, Hotel and Services that we will discuss in this project. However a kind of business that makes us knows....

From Combating the Poor to Curtailing Substance Abuse
Targeting the poor through Crime Reduction policies against substance abuse in the US must give way to Dynamic Harm Reduction, which addresses the issue at its core, if it truly wishes to alleviate the international ï¿½drug problem.ï¿½ In the early 1970s, the realization of the wide spread c....

Global Warming and Diseases
Global warming, which is defined as the increase in the average temperature of Earth's near-surface air and oceans since the mid-20th century and its projected continuation, caused by greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere naturally or by mankind acts. Global warming is now well docum....

Haitians
Health Related Beliefs and Practices Within the Haiti culture, illnesses are thought to occur due to either natural or supernatural causes. Natural illnesses may be caused by an imbalance with nature (hot food vs. cold food, light food vs. heavy food), and supernatural illnesses caused by s....

History of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB)
This paper discusses PCB and its important history. PCB stands for polychlorinated biphenyls, an insulator used many electric companies during the twentieth century. I will include the details about PCB, and its controversial history, especially the story of one producing company, Monsanto. Bef....

HIV Paper
Through my experiences, I knew quite a bit of information about AIDS and HIV. I also learned some new information about the deadly virus. For the longest time I thought AIDS/HIV could be transmitted by saliva. Not from kissing, but I thought that if an AIDS/HIV recipient spat into someones....

How serious is drug abuse
Drug abuse is a topic that most people talk about in the United States. Drug abuse affects drug users, their families, and society as a whole. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) estimates that drug abuse costs the United States as much as $246 billion each year. The NIDA define some of ....

How smoking bans are bad for business
Research Methods How smoking bans are bad for business. Following the governments White Paper on Public Health with regards to the ever-growing concern of the damage caused by passive smoking, a smoking ban throughout England in the majority of enclosed public places has been proposed. Such a ba....

Influence of Violence in Media
Influence of Violence in Media Researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine say, Brain scans of kids who played a violent video game showed an increase in emotional arousal and a corresponding decrease of activity in brain areas involved in self-control, inhibition and attentio....

Legalization of Marijuana
Take A Closer LookThose who oppose legalizing marijuana tell us that legalizing it would beseriously detrimental. Are they looking at the facts? Or do they justbelieve the same myths that our parents created when they were trying tostop us from becoming drug addicts? Let&rsquos take a closer look at....

Living a Better Life
Within the last few decades the world has become more educated then ever. The information we now have on medicine and general knowledge is helping people live longer and healthier lives. Many people seek the fountain of youth, but little do they know it is all about what they eat and how they exerci....

methadone
The use of Methadone Maintenance to treat addiction to heroin and other opiates was developed in the mid-1960 and has become the most widely employed treatment of opiate dependence in the United States. Consistent with its origins as an intervention to curb heroin addiction, methadone maintenance....

More beds in public hospital (Victoria)
1. Introduction There is an urgent need to address the high shortage of beds in the Victoria's public hospital system and the Liberal Party has proposed a policy to boost the number of hospital beds. However, with the past records of Labor Partys broken election promises from year 20021, the su....

Native American Women: Coerced, Stripped, and Abandoned
I had been sterilized at the age of eleven, at the IHS [Indian Health Service] hospital here in the early 1950s. I got married in the 1960s and I went to the doctor and he told me that I had a partial hysterectomy. [When I was a child] they were giving us vaccinations and mine got infected and a n....

Not only does music affect your dance moves, It affects your brain as well!
Not only does music affect your dance moves, It affects your brain as well! Songs with violent musical lyrics increase aggression related to thoughts and emotions, and this effect is directly related to the violence in the lyrics. Therefore, violent musical lyrics can negatively affect a lis....

Nutrition Labeling Laws Under Scrutiny
Abstract Regulations resulting from the Food and Drug Administrations passage of the Nutritional Labeling and Education Act of 1990 and the trans fatty acid labeling amendment effective January 1, 2006, have provided consumers with the information necessary to maintain healthy dietary practices. ....

Obeistiy and its growing affects on America
Obesity and its growing affects on America Obesity is a growing problem that has greatly affected America. Obesity has become a major issue concerning our children and America as a whole. The obesity rates have grown rapidly due to many changes in Americans lifestyles. Many of the causes ar....

Obesity
Obesity: A Part of American Culture There is a huge epidemic sweeping our nation. No one can hide from it as it is affecting children, adolescents, and adults. This disease was solely responsible for 11,909 deaths last year (McHugh 264). This number will continue to grow as more and more people ....

Physical Activity and Weight Control
Regular physical activity is an important part of effective weight loss and weight maintenance. It alsocan help prevent several diseases and improve your overall health. It does not matter what type ofphysical activity you perform--sports, planned exercise, household chores, yard work, or work-relat....

Poverty in 18th Century England
Why has poverty become such a major problem by the end of the 18th century? What attempts did politicians make to deal with the problem up to 1950? Poverty in the developed world has always been relative, and has always existed. In Britain, it was traditionally accepted as part of everyday life ....

Public Health for Nutrition Studies Risk Factors
Australia Institute of Health and Welfare, (2008) defines a risk factor as a term given to a health aspect which can impact on a person's health usually in a negative way. There are many different types of risk factors; they can be modifiable and non-modifiable factors. Modifiable factors have the p....

Race and Your Community
Introduction I live in Tuskegee, Alabama, which is the famous home of Booker T. Washington and George Washington Carver. In more recent times, the Tuskegee Airmen of World War II have been memorialized in books and movies. The infamous syphilis experiment of the federal government also took place ....

right to reproduce: a horrifying tale of involuntary sterilization in the US
Involuntary sterilization is a way of controlling society by limiting who is able to reproduce. The idea behind this social control is that a deviant parent will result in deviant and defective children. In order to decrease the amount of deviants in the world, the right to reproduce is taken away ....

Risk factors affecting the performance of our students in our school system?
There is an old saying that, the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. However, in order for society to advance and win this race, it is vital that our students be educated because in toda....

Risk factors affecting the performance of our students in our school system. How can they be corrected?
There is an old saying that, the course of civilization is a race between catastrophe and education. In a democracy such as ours, we must make sure that education wins the race. However, in order for society to advance and win this race, it is vital that our students be educated because in toda....

Roe vs. Wade
Jane Roe, whose real name is Norma L. McCorvey who claimed her pregnancy was the result of rape. Roe now says that she was lying, although at one point she went so far as to give a detailed account of her rape. The case originated in Texas in March 1970. Roe sought to terminate her pregnancy by abor....

Role Models
Role Models Wanted Role models are people who serve as an example of positive behaviors, values, and attitudes associated with a role. According to The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy role models can also be people who distinguish themselves in such a way that others admire and want to imitat....

social and economic impact of the railways on Britain
How far do you agree that the economic consequences of railway development in the years 1830-1914 were more significant and substantial than the social consequences? The arrival of the railways during the 1830s coincided with the on going industrialisation of Britains economy so by the 1840s ....

Teen Violence
Teen Violence Its hard to imagine a 16 year old murdered because they were caught in the cross fire of a teenage gang shooting or even an 11 year old who was killed by someone only 4 years older then her, unfortunately this is becoming a harsh reality in todays society. In the year 2002 alo....

teenage pregnancy is one of our nations most serious social issues
Teenage pregnancy is one of our nations most serious social problems resulting from a lack of parental supervision, morals, and peer pressure. It seems to be turning from a rare incident to becoming the norm. Why are teenagers having babies? Where are the factors contributing to teenage pregna....

Teens and Birth Control
Sex. It is a simple three letter word that can result in an overabundance of reactions, from nervous giggles of laughter to outright shock. Most adults, especially in an educational environment, choose to ignore that it is happening right beneath their noses. The fact of the matter is, kids have sex....

The federal government and medical marijuana
The American Medical Association's Council on Scientific Affairs should be commended for its report, "Marijuana: Its Health Hazards and Therapeutic Potential." Not only does the report outline evidence of marijuana's potential harms, but it distinguishes this concern from the legitimate issue of m....

The Legalization of Marijuana
A week and a half after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the federal government can block doctors from prescribing marijuana for medical use, Dr. Dale Schafer and his wife Dr. Marion Fry were both arrested by agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Western El Dorado County Narcot....

UNC-Chapel Hill Profile
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public, coeducational, research university located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States. Also known as The University of North Carolina, Carolina, North Carolina, or simply UNC, is the oldest institution in the University of North Carolin....

Underage Drinking
Underage drinking is a topic that is easily one that most people could relate and talk about. When people would normally talk about underage drinking they would be talking about the age limit and how that should be changed. An important factor that most people miss when they talk about underage dri....

Understanding Issues Facing Health Care Professionals
People today have become more and more aware of their health. In addition with rising health care costs, innovated technology, new diseases and treatments many health care professionals consumers are challenged by understanding issues concerning current and future health care. Podiatry is one health....

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