Community Health Essays and Term Papers

Treatment And The Sex Offender

by Brent M. Pergram, Masters of Arts in Sociology The Martinson Report of the early 1970’s, said that rehabilitative efforts or treatment programs in general had failed to reduce recidivism. The Report led those in control of government and the criminal justice system to say that rehabilitation ...

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Analysis of the Human-Animal Relationship

Summary This essay proposes that companion animals have a calculable benefit to humans on a diverse scale. The study focuses on a three-tiered beneficial affect; highlighting how individuals benefit from companion animals, how the community can benefit from people owning pets and how ...

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Rural Healthcare

In 1976 over 53 million Americans lived in roughly 900 rural counties, which together make up about 40% of the land mass of this country. These areas are characterized by low population density, a disproportionate share of the country's poor and elderly, and shortages of all kinds (Bayer, Caplan, ...

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Anxiety And Depression In Afro-Americans

A major cause of mental health disorders such as depression and anxiety in individuals is stress. Defined stress is an internal response caused by the application of a stressor or anything that requires coping behaviour. For example the pressure of a job, supporting a family or getting an ...

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"An Ecosystem's Disturbance By A Pollutant

L. Lehr Freedman defines a pollutant as "the occurrence of toxic substances or energy in a larger quality then the ecological communities or particular species can tolerate without suffering measurable detriment" (Freeman, 562). Although the effects of a pollutant on an organism vary depending on ...

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Poverty

How This paper will discuss childhood poverty as it is a continuously increasing concern for the federal, state and local levels of government. Many policies are being considered or have been enacted to help reduce the number of children being raised in low-income families through prevention and ...

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Alternative Medicine

The health care industry has a variety of policies and standards regarding coverages for modalities. From a sociological standpoint, unconventional, alternative, or unorthodox therapies refer to medical practices that are not in conformity with the standards of the medical community. The New ...

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AIDS

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (), suppresses the immune system related to infection with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). A person infected with HIV gradually loses immune function along with certain immune cells called CD4 T-lymphocytes or CD4 T-cells, causing the infected person to ...

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Antibiotic Resistance 2

During 1997, an event doctors had been fearing finally occurred. In three geographically separate patients, an often deadly bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, responded poorly to a once reliable antidote--the antibiotic vancomycin. Fortunately, in those patients, the bacteria remained susceptible ...

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Organizational Skills

FfWalgreens - A Strategic Analysis Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 TABLE OF FIGURES 2 THE RETAIL DRUGSTORE INDUSTRY 3 BUSINESS ACTIVITIES 7 INDUSTRY OVERVIEW 7 BACKGROUND 8 MODERN DRUGSTORES 8 CURRENT ORGANIZATION AND STRUCTURE 9 CURRENT CONDITIONS 10 FUTURE INDUSTRY PERFORMANCE 13 HISTORY ...

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Alternative Medicine

The health care industry has a variety of policies and standards regarding coverages for modalities. From a sociological standpoint, unconventional, alternative, or unorthodox therapies refer to medical practices that are not in conformity with the standards of the medical community. The New ...

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Methods Of Therapy

Therapy, from a psychologist's viewpoint, has many different meanings. It can be physical or psychological, or even both. In this paper, several different aspects of therapy will be discussed. First the word therapy will be defined more clearly, and then psychotherapy and how it differs from ...

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Youth Violence

Youth Violence U10a1: Integrative Project HS5990 Integrative Project for Human Service Learners March 18, 2011 Background and Statement of the Problem Youth violence from juvenile and criminal justice sources indicate that 10% of the more than 20,000 homicides reported yearly are ...

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China New Approach In Africa Advantage, Concern And Implications

CHINA NEW APPROACH IN AFRICA ADVANTAGE, CONCERN AND IMPLICATIONS * INTRODUCTION From the late 1950s to the early 1970s, China provided support to several revolutionary movements in Africa. The Chinese Communist Party opposed liberal ideas ( democracy) supported by most western countries such ...

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Social Work: Vines Support

Service approach Vines Support works in a person centered approach based on the recovery model highlighting the need for individuals to take control of their pathway to recovery. We do strive to empower the service user to take ownership and full control of their long term personal stability ...

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Helping The Street Children in Paraguay

This paper describes a hypothetical project for helping the street children in Paraguay prepared by the Executive Director of a small non-governmental, non profit charity organization (NGO). The project report has been prepared for the approval of a donor agency that has allocated one million ...

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The Politics Of Education Reform

The Minister of Education and Training, David Johnson, announced the new Ontario high school diploma requirements in January 1998. With the elimination of grade thirteen, or Ontario academic Credits, it was foreseeable there would be changes to the requirements. However, one new requirement ...

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Scarlet Letter 8

Hawthorne's novel describes the life of an adulteress, Hester Prynne, who is shunned by her judgmental community. She gave birth to her daughter Pearl out of wedlock, while her “partner of iniquity,”(Hawthorne 59) a minister named Arthur Dimmesdale, never revealed his “black ...

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The Roy Adaptation Model

Roy began work on her theory in the 1960s. She drew from existing work of a physiological psychologist, and behavioral, systems and role theorists. She was keenly interested in the psycho/social aspects of the person from the start and concentrated her education on this aspect of Person. Thus, ...

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Reorganisation Of The Nhs

This paper is concerned with the major changes, which have taken place in the National Health Service (NHS) following the NHS and Community Care Act 1990. Any UK government is faced with a long list of health issues, this list would include macro questions such as the relationship of the ...

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