Health Disparities in Maternal Health and Birth Outcomes of Women in the United States The Health Resources and Services Administration, defines health disparities as “population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care” (Mandal, 2014). This paper will focus on the health disparities existing within the United States between women of various ethnicities. Specifically, the disparities we will discuss incorporate preterm births, low birth rates, and
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The documentary Latino Americans: Pride and Prejudice revolves around the civil rights movement of chicano Americans. The documentary describes societal issues concerning hispanics in the mid 20th century and how the chicano community worked to overcome the injustice set upon them. The documentary describes a program instated during WWII called the Bracero program which allowed for hispanic laborers to immigrate to the U.S. for work that involved manual labor. These chicano laborers were a very
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1) The Spanish title of the essay allowed me to believe that this essay will have some connection with the Spanish language or the Hispanic culture. When we translate the title of the essay it means “I can speak Spanish.”. Therefore, I thought it will be about her frustration and journey of learning a new language, or fitting into the Hispanic culture. Reading the essay further reviled that not knowing Spanish or having the Spanish accent made it easier for her to fit in with the students in her
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Jorge Ramos, a journalist and a Hispanic advocate, is inspirational to me because he represent what I one day hope to become. He came to this country as a student in 1983. At age 28, he became one of the youngest national news anchors. Since then, having accomplished many countless effects on this country he has become “the voice of the voiceless” for other immigrants like himself. He is also an anchorman for Noticiero Univision, in addition to being an anchorman he works as the host of a show that
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However, the growth in college degrees for Latinos is almost flat. The failure over more than three decades to make any progress in moving more Latino students successfully through college suggests that what we have been doing to close achievement gaps is not working. This fact has enormous consequences for the United States, as the job market continues to demand more education and Latinos continue to make up a larger and larger portion of the
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Reason for Admission On 4/12/11 A.G., a 16 year old Hispanic American female voluntarily admitted herself to Aurora Behavioral Health Care (ABHC) due worsening depression and suicidal ideation. Pt stated that she had been feeling depressed for the last six months but felt as if her depression was worse now than ever. Upon admission pt was thinking seriously of acting on her thoughts of suicide by overdoing on sleeping pills or by cutting herself. For the past few months the patient had been seeing
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other censuses but it was not easily retrievable and some parts of the data were missing. The different quantitative variables I am using separated by neighborhood are median household income, total population, ethnic makeup (divided into white, Hispanic/Latino, Black/African America, ect…) total crimes, and housing units (vacant, occupied). The categorical variables I am using are neighborhood, community (group of neighborhoods, direction (North, South, East, West), income level (above or below average)
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Miquel Dominquez, a 51 year old minority small business man, is a resident of East Los Angeles and is just one of the thousands of the 94% Hispanic residents in the area (Census 2000). In 2013 notices from the state toxic substances department began appearing on his door steps about a company that was barely heard about, Exide Technologies (photographed below) which is a battery recycling plant that has been in the community since 1922. Soon enough community activists began knocking at his door explaining
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KEEP THIS BOOKLET FOR YOUR RECORDS Assistance Application Information Booklet Welcome to the State of Michigan Department of Human Services (DHS) We have programs to help you and/or your household (everyone living in your home) with food, medical care, child care, cash and emergencies. We can also tell you about other programs and resources that may help meet your needs. We look forward to helping you and your household. If you need help with reading, writing, hearing, etc., please tell us.
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Education reform has a major impact on teaching children of poverty. For decades, education reform has been a leading topic on the national political agenda. It is an epidemic issue which has led to various legislations to include: the Elementary and Secondary Act of 1965 (ESEA), No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and the most recent, Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). Few Americans realize that the U.S. educational system is one of the most unequal in the industrial world, and students routinely receive
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