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3) Which one of those below is not used to define a profession? A profession

Kleinman’s questions are more applicable to deaf people in general who are more in favor of and interested in improving their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implant, and/or speech therapy. Therefore, they would be more likely to answer his questions even though they do contain the term sickness as these people are more to likely view deafness as a disability compared to people who strictly identify themselves as a part of Deaf culture. Also, Kleinman’s questions can be especially applicable for hearing parents with deaf children who want to raise them as hearing children. According to the ninety percent rule, ninety-percent of deaf children have hearing parents and ninety-percent of hearing children have deaf parents (Sparrow 141). Since hearing parents want to raise their children in the hearing culture, it is ideal for them to be able to utilize Kleinman’s eight questions as a means of providing a way for their deaf children to improve their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implants, and/or speech

The United States traditional majority consists of white, middle class individuals who speak English. We chose to focus on the United States in general because deafness is not associated with one state alone, but all over the world. Based on a survey taken between 1988 and 1994, 14.9% of children age six through nineteen experienced hearing loss (Hearing Loss in Children, 2015). Compared with the traditional majority, the children affected

All Americans are at risk of developing obesity, with an obesity rate of 36.5% of the population (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). The increase of obesity in the United States has led to the development of other costly comorbidities, such as diabetes, cardiovascular disease, stroke, and even some types of cancer, and therefore should be avoided at all costs (Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2017). Although all groups are at risk for obesity, vulnerable populations such as low-income children, face

The inability to obtain health information to prevent weight-related gains play an important part to how community health can intervene to address preventing the associated risk of CVD in the disability communities (Elias-Boneta et al., 2015; Garza et al., 2011; Kuenburg et al., 2015). The primary health issue in the DHOH community of Puerto Rico is the undermining by the lack of understanding of the relationship between hearing loss and weight gain. A health surveillance dataset taken from the housing surveillance 2005 collected to provide insight on the association between DHOH and weight gain respondents. There is a growing need to collect data to understand the fundamental issues to address health care disparities for those who are DHOH due to their intense health inequalities issues (Kuenburg et al., 2015; Pick, 2013). Several resolutions are needed to end health disparities in Deaf people, especially disease like CVD weight associated gains that is

Furthermore, these individuals subside the average person due to their obesity; a disease that affects 70% of American adults. Consequently, this disease causes an increasing amount of heart diseases, strokes, high blood pressure, and diabetes in our current community. It is agreed upon our society that these individuals who suffer of obesity have been looked down upon and are put at risk of discrimination regardless of how hard we try to end it. To make the problem worse than it already

Obesity and heart problems have accelerated the clarity of vision for people in terms of what they eat and other lifestyle decisions but not everybody can design a program to be followed by a large number of people. The program needs to cut across races, weight groups, age groups and gender paying attention to a myriad of conditions and variables that can affect the effectiveness of the program.

The research article published in BMC Pediatrics shed the light and provide a thorough insight about the perceived barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity for children with disability. In this article the author Shields. N (affiliated with Department of Rehabilitation, Nutrition and Sport, School of Allied Health, La Trobe University) and

“Program sustainability or survival is increasingly recognized as an important outcome of health programs. Substantial resources are often committed to community-based health programs, yet programs are often short- lived” (Mermelstein, Sporer, Emery & Curry, 2009). For maintaining a viable health promotion program it is very important to understand the different factors that will affect the sustainability of the program. “Planning for sustainability requires, first, a clear understanding of the concept of sustainability and operational indicators that may be used in monitoring sustainability over time. Important categories of indicators include: (1) maintenance of health benefits achieved through an initial program, (2) level of institutionalization

These stakeholders will be using the findings of the evaluation in different ways and for different purposes. Robert Wood Johnson foundation would want to know whether the program is working or not and use it to determine if the program should be funded to continue or expand its services. The staff of Department of Health and Social Services would want to know how to enhance or refine the program in order to implement change and to increase health insurance coverage for children. The clinical

90% of all deaf children are born to hearing parents who never thought much about the deaf community (Bat-Chava). That is why in mainstream society, the quality of being deaf is seen as a disability rather than something to be praised. The common view of deafness is that it is simply a person who cannot hear and “is deficient in some way because

2. They are trying to find out how the internet affects the deaf community. The authors are trying to see how deaf people communicate in Europe through text, video chat, blogs, and vlogs.

Obesity has become a normality in the states and around the world. There has been a big push on social media lately to accept all body types and stop hate and discrimination of overweight people, yet weight bias still remains one of the most prevalent and most accepted forms of bias. Typically, we associate obesity with a lack of exercise or an excess of caloric intake or just laziness on the part of the patient. However, patients who suffer from Trisomy 21, or Down Syndrome, often seem to present as obese. In fact, according to Polednak and AulifFe (1976), 20% of males with a learning disability were obese while 17% of females were obese. While this should come at no shock due to the prevalence of obesity in our society, it is a major concern.

I started participating in medical prep programs in middle school, dissected my first cadaver in high school, and attended the top university for preparing undergraduate African American medical doctors. My ten year goal for becoming a doctor was on track, there was only one problem; I wasn't excelling in the pre-med program. My university's pride lies in its science core and specifically designed courses to train medical students. This triggered my existential crisis, I became depressed and it showed in my academic work. My future plans were as tarnished as my grade point average, how can I work in healthcare if I can't pass anatomy and physiology?

The Safeguarding Public Health Program (U.S. PIRG) advocates for protections and specific rules the chemical industry, pharmaceutical industry, medical devices industry, and of course, the food industry have to follow to ensure the food, drugs, medical devices, and several other products are safe for the public to use. The U.S PIRG first formed in the early 1970’s college campuses that lobbied for harsher rules to follow to ensure all consumer products are safe. This main advocation hasn't changed over the 45 years it has been around. 1971, the U.S PIRG officially emerged in Minnesota, and was then followed by Oregon and Massachusetts. In 1981 a fund was established for the organization. A a key individual is Ralph Nader, the founder of U.S