b) Focus of on super-utilizers, for example the patient population at CHAS is high for hypertension, primary-care doctors should work with such high-risk patients to help them control illnesses and improve the health of such patients • Medication management: Identify enrollees with a history of high prescription
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a community recovers from a disaster is just as important as the preparations taken to minimize the effects of that particular emergency or threat. The neighborhood community has a forest located along the banks of the Neighborhood River with a population of 64,000 residents. The past five days firefighters are trying to control a wildfire west of the forest, which is raging out of control, and is not contained because of the early windy season that is causing destruction of acres of
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1950s America in an Italian-American neighbourhood under the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. Brooklyn is a very poor area. It is a corrupt society in which laws are not obeyed and many people have a low social status. The vast majority of Brooklyn’s population was Sicilian. Brooklyn is described by Alfieri, the narrator, as the slum that faces the bay on the seaward side of Brooklyn Bridge. To the audience, the bridge not only shows the poor separated from the rich but a symbol of hope for the people
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Name Instructor Course Date Social Problems in children’s healthcare Child health care has faced tremendous changes in the society, and it has embarked on multicultural strategies to necessitate competitiveness and effectiveness in the society. The focus has been on sociological perspective. According to Lerner (2002), sociology involves an analysis of social life of human being, societies and groups. It incorporates analysis of human interaction as they mature, both mentally and physically
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A Look at Human Trafficking Nicole Kohrmann Liberty University Abstract There is a world full of passionate people that want to bring awareness to human trafficking. Human trafficking exists on a global level affecting many men, women and children, in a variety of countries. Although there are some case studies available that involve this criminal activity, the lack of recorded data complicates the continued progress forward on the awareness of the real existence of human trafficking. The
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dominated the American Bottom. They were a unique and special tribe, who were complex politically, religiously, and socially. They were also an independent people until French colonizers came to settle in the area. The French Creoles became the dominant population in the region, effecting trade and implementing French Creole culture in the region. The French would not be the last group trying to develop and profit from the American Bottom. When the United States gained control of the territory, it changed
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Introduction According to the Human Rights Watch, “the meat packing industry is considered as the most dangerous job factory job in America.” (Human Rights Watch, 2005). People employed in slaughterhouses are exposed many types of hazards on a daily basis that can jeopardize their health. Since the 1900s, there has been a significant incline in the demand for meat within the United States, which requires more people to work in production. (2013). A majority of these employees are classified as
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Bangladesh Centre for Advanced Studies, 1998). According to Habib (1999), the fisheries industry contributes employment to 12% of the total working population in various forms of livelihoods activities. In the mid 1990s fisheries contributed about 10 percent of Bangladesh’s export earnings. The Meghna Estuary Study (May 1998, first draft) estimates the population living in coastal marine fishing villages at the end of the 20th Century at 7.3 million. According to the same source, in these areas fishing
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a) an understanding of what these socio-cultural competencies are, Cultural competence refers to an ability to interact effectively with people of different cultures and socio-economic backgrounds, particularly in the context of human resources ,non-profit organisation , and government agencies whose employees work with persons from different cultural/ethnic backgrounds. Cultural competence comprises four components: (a) Awareness of one's own cultural worldview, (b) Attitude towards cultural differences
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dominated the American Bottom. They were a unique and special tribe, who were complex politically, religiously, and socially. They were also an independent people until French colonizers came to settle in the area. The French Creoles became the dominant population in the region, effecting trade and implementing French Creole culture in the region. The French would not be the last group trying to develop and profit from the American Bottom. When the United States gained control of the territory, it changed
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