Running Head: Community Assessment and Analysis Community Assessment and Analysis: The State of Arizona Team Purple Grand Canyon University: NRS 427V September 9, 2012 Community Assessment and Analysis Arizona is a state located in the southwestern region of the United States. It is also part of the western United States and the mountain west with the state’s capitol and largest city being, Phoenix. The second largest Arizona city is Tucson, which is then followed
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Hispanic Identity Lecture Sociology 337 Hispanic Identity Lecture Ethnicity is a difficult topic to discuss. When discussing terms of ethnicity it is challenging to truly identify a Hispanic. The reason for this is because the term Hispanic is used for what seems to be a variety of ethnic backgrounds. If one looks at the term Hispanic in attempts to identify its origin, one will be taken back to a time when the Romans used the root of the word, Hispania, to refer to the Iberian Peninsula (Gracia
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Examining Government Regulations I have researched the aging Hispanic population where I live in Texas. Texas is one of the largest areas where Hispanics reside. With the older Hispanics in Dallas, the city where I reside, 40.5 percent are estimated to be poor, or near poor (Mahone, J. 1988). There are major barriers to getting needed services to the aging Hispanic community. These barriers range from language to an overloaded staff with aging services (Severence
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze the prevalence of asthma in the Hispanic population and the importance of the recognition of risk factors for asthma symptoms, proper assessment, and treatment in the primary care setting. In order to treat this population is crucial to know their culture, believes, and practices to received their cooperation in the prevention and care of their medical condition. Hispanic population traces their ancestry to countries that were previously under
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class or working class. The majority of people in this community, work in lower tier job, they are compensated for their job with a minimum hourly wages, and are Hispanic. This culture tend to Base on their income, this community tends to consume products that are affordable, necessary, or a fundamental feature of this cultural. The Hispanic culture is also very religious culture and very often uses a religious jewelry made of gold, or give religious jewelry made out of gold as important gifts. (http://en
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countries, the infection has been steadily increasing. American citizens born in foreign countries are infected with Tuberculosis more than 9 times of the American citizens born in the United States. The Latino/Hispanic born Americans are more exposed to the disease and the cases oh the Hispanics reported was more than 10 percent of the US population. This was reported in the year 1996. About Tuberculosis: Tuberculosis disease is transmitted from individual to individual through the help of Air pollution
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effectively in order to influence the behavior of the Hispanic community. Values of the Hispanic/Latino group that we would focus on would be the importance of language, family, and religion. Hispanic/Latino teens respond best to bilingual ad messages—especially from English-language celebrities “who happen to slip in some Spanish” because it mirrors their own usage patterns.” (Cheskin Research, 2006). Research shows that even though Hispanics use every type of media, they do seem to have
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Becoming American In the film “Becoming American” it explains how Hispanic people that come to this country to have a better life for their families have better health then most Americans. Americans tend to have a lot of health issues like high blood pressure, diabetes, and different diseases due to stresses in their lives like their jobs, worrying about financial situations, and the way the eat. In the video a family from Mexico live in a rented house struggling to make ends meat, but yet had
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Austin Carey 09/20/15 Eng 1010 Blah Blah Blah!!!!!! Have you ever been in that awkward situation where someone is talking to you, and all you hear is blah blah blah blah? Growing up having a friend from a different culture there was a lot of things going on that I couldn’t understand at a younger age. I meet my friend Johnathan at age of 5. We hung out together, ate together, went to school together pretty much did everything together
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were from another country; she felt she was above Hispanics and didn't want to be one. As a teenager, Tanya confessed to her father that she disliked being thought of as Mexican. After that, her father decided to send her to Mexico City in hopes that she would have a better understanding and appreciation of the Mexican culture, but it would take time. By the time she finished school she began to see herself as what she called “an odd Hispanic hybrid” (pg. 59), she could understand the language
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