Cardiovascular Disease the Silent Killer in the Hispanic Community The purpose of this paper is to discuss the community teaching proposal based on the necessities of the Hispanic population in South Florida. It will present the primary prevention and health promotion in cardiovascular disease. This writer will discussed the summary of teaching plan, epidemiology, evaluation of the teaching experience, the community response to teaching and the areas of strength and improvement for individuals
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meticulous data gathered from consumers to create the most effective marketing plan to reach are targeted consumer. The following is an outline covering important demographics of three major minority groups in America including; African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian. I. AFRICAN AMERICAN A. Total numbers in the U.S. a. 2011 Black Population: 43.2 million, 14.1% of US In 2011 US Census Bureau estimates 43,884,130 African Americans 14.1% of the total population of 311.5 million
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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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The Hispanic American that I am writing about is George Lopez. George Lopez has impacted all of our lives by being a funny comedian, an impressive actor and an impressive talk show host. The first thing you must know about him is his child hoop and early life. Both of his parents are from Mexico, so he is of Mexican descent. He was born in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California. At the age of two months old his father left the family and when he was 10 years old so did his mom. He was raised after
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tribulations in new lands, struggling to reinvent their identities while continuing to embrace and nurture their Latin American identities. The United States is undergoing major demographic and cultural changes primarily driven by Latinos, leading to the Americanization of Latinos and the Latinization of America as a new Latin Republic in the United States develops where immigrants can embrace their transnational identity. I will detail the adversity Latin Americans endured immigrating to America described
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HISPANIC AMERICAN DIVERSITY 1 Hispanic American Diversity Nicole Eth/125 1/15/12 Hispanic American Diversity 2 Abstract When you think Hispanic many groups come to mind, Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Columbian and the list goes on and on. Research will identify these four Hispanic groups to see their commonalities and differences, along with linguistic
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lower than in any year since 1968. Almost seventy five percent of black and Latino students attend schools that are predominantly minority.”Suburban schools, which are primarily made up of white students, are given a far superior education than urban schools, which are primarily made up of Hispanics and African Americans. In Brooklyn, New York, at Adlai Stevenson High School, “97% of the students population are black or Hispanic, eight-tenths of one percent were white” He further offers some explanations
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discrimination is a constant reality in the lives of Hispanic Americans in the United States. Due to alarming migration rates over the past several decades, the United States has experienced significant growth in ethnic and racial diversity. However, racial minority groups like the Hispanics; “the largest and fastest growing population in the United States, continue to struggle for full acceptance and equal opportunity” (Louie, 2005, Para 1). The migration of Hispanic groups such as the Puerto Rican Americans
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representations in the media Latino portrayals in the media has been painted in a bad light for a while now. Historically they have also been ignored to a huge extent, and when they were portrayed it was through offensive stereotypes. They have been excluded from most American Media. This is evidence is backed by “The Annenberg School of Cultural Communicators Project which found that between the years of 1969 to 1978 only 2.5% of primetime television characters were Hispanic”. The reason why this figure
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song was when he stated most of the army was either black or Latino. What he might’ve meant was how before and in the early Vietnam war era, Many middle and upper class white people avoided being drafted by going to college, while blacks and Latinos were unable to do this since they could not afford it, so they were drafted to the army. But besides this, statistics show that more than half of the U.S. army is Caucasian while Hispanics and African Americans combine for around 30%.
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