Latino / A Income Based Statistics

experience gained in the city of Katy, Texas, U.S.A by exploring the health issue of childhood obesity in the city. This fieldwork will focus on children between the ages of 2 and 19 across all genders among the Hispanics, whereby 21.4 % and 22.4% of Latino males and females respectively aged between 2 and 19 years were obese (Texas Department of State Health Services, 2014). The paper seeks to analyze the health identified health challenge and outline measures to address the issue. Community description

assess the area for opportunities to improve the health of the community (Stanhope & Lancaster, 2012). There was a focus on the Los Rios Street neighborhood (see Figure 2, Appendix) in the central part of the city where a high number of low-income Hispanics/Latinos live (United States Census Bureau [U.S. Census Bureau], 2012). Statistical Information The city of San Jun Capistrano had an estimated population of 35,123 on 2011. The

are more likely to face stiff sentences” ("Shadow Report to the United Nations”). This can easily be interpreted by observing the data presented (see fig.1), according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, one in every three black males are likely to be imprisoned within their lifetime and one in every six Latino males are likely to be imprisoned within their lifetime as well, this in comparison to the fact that one in every seventeen white males are likely to be imprisoned within their lifetime is quite

environmental inequality. Current theories on environmental inequality have commonly concluded that the phenomenon has two major factors, race and class. The effects of environmental inequality vary across time place and population. Based on my research, mapping, and statistics I was unable to attribute this issue to a dominant factor. Like many cities

Inequality Among Latinos in Academic Achievement in Higher Education The Latino community has made strides forward when it comes to education. Adriana Kohler and Melissa Lazarin, analysists for education reform for the National Council of La Raza, reports that “The growth of the Latino student population has significantly surpassed that of other ethnic/racial groups (2). Even with these strides, the Latino community still faces obstacles in higher education. Kohler and Lazarin further report that

Amanda Tran Professor Alexandro Gradilla CHIC 305 13 January 2015 Latino Communities: Structural and Social Issues and How They Thrive For many Latino families, their image is misunderstood. The majority of Americans analyze Latino communities focusing on the individual. Asking individual questions such as what did that person do wrong to be poor? Why is that individual immigrating into the US? The real question we should be asking is what factors made them immigrate to a different country in the

(Martin, Beese 2015). By increasing police presence in schools, children are more likely to be searched, questioned, or targeted by police than they would be without police present. And as a result, “children are far more likely to be subject to school-based arrests—the majority of which are for nonviolent offenses, such as disruptive behavior—than they were a generation ago” (“School-to-Prison Pipeline”). For example, if a child was misbehaving in class in a school that had a police presence, they could

act against local problems and provide safety. Latino-Americans are affected by outward sprawl and the development of smart growth; yet, Latinos face economic and racial disparities in both rural and urban settings. Although Latinos have an affinity for new urbanism and the city, Latino families are moving outward into the suburbs which the population numbers are almost equally divided between city and suburbs (Pastor 82). The growing Latino population in the suburbs shows the sense of community

The paper is based on an interview with a healthy, non-institutionalized elderly Latino man in relation to the current nursing techniques. The focus on this individual helps to investigate the relationship between the race/ethnicity, psychosocial characteristics and the United States nursing home utilization projections. Notably, focusing on the individual aged 65 years and above helps analyze the characteristics of the baby boom generation in its entrance to retirement age. Consideration of this

is unaware especially in health care. A large percent of minorities are the majority of workers of America, in which requires the most of the health care distribution. But are they receiving the proper access to health care and prescription access based on their ethnicity/race? Discrimination and racism continue to be a part of the unbalancing inequality in society and have adversely affected minority populations, and the health care system in general. Analyzing some of the racial disparities in health