The Rate Of African Americans

Asian Americans face health disparities in cancer, chronic diseases, hypertension, and diabetes, mental health, and among the elderly (Sy, n.d.). I wanted to focus on what one of the most leading cause of Asian Americans or Pacific Islander is Cancer. Asian Americans generally have lower cancer rates than the non-Hispanics white population. However, disparities still exist in the certain type of cancer. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health, Asians are 40 percent less likely to have prostate cancer as white men, but they are twice as likely to have stomach cancer. Although Asians women are 30 percent less likely to have breast cancer than white women, they are twice as likely to have stomach cancer. OHM also conclude that Asian men and women have 2.1 and 2.3 times the incidence of liver and IBD cancer as the non-Hispanic white population. Asian are twice as likely to die from stomach cancer as compared to the non-Hispanic white population, and Asian women are 2.4 times as likely to die from the same disease (Office of Minority Health,

Over the past few decades, there have been a series of African Americans killed by law enforcement officers. Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, John Crawford III, Eric Garner and countless others. The aftermath: the officers who murdered the unarmed men have either been acquitted or there was no indictment. What happened in Ferguson is years, if not decades in the making. African Americans are simply tired of having to bury friends and family and discovering the officers, meant to protect the law and serve the people, are killing black lives and are almost always found not guilty.

African Americans were confronted with a practically unconquerable number of obstructions in 1900. Any way you take a gander at it, as far as the instructive framework, especially considering the way that the greater part of them, the expansive lion's share are still in the South. What's more, to the extent instruction is concerned, African Americans are given no road of training on the lower level, which makes it troublesome for them to seek to advanced education since they don't have the basics to get to that point. State funded schools are interested in African Americans just in little groups.

I plan to discuss Older African Americans and the disparity of the quality of care in nursing homes. In 2008, 3.2 older African Americans lived in the United States, making up 8.3% of the older population. (Administration on Aging) This number is expected to grow to 9.9 million by the year 2050, making African Americans account for 11% of the population. 50% of Black Elderly lived in 8 states, which were New York, Florida, California, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, Illinois, and Virginia. (Administration on Aging) 12% of older African Americans had a bachelors degree or higher. (Administration on Aging) Also in 2008, over 12% of Black older persons had a bachelor’s degree or higher. (Administration on Aging) In 2008, 30% of older black men

Throughout the past occurrences of African Americans, several recurring themes are prevalent. These themes shape their past and signify patterns that may be correlated to other topics in history. Trial and error proved highly pervasive in the history of African Americans as much of their progression in society stemmed from several unsuccessful attempts that eventually resulted in victory. Slave revolts, pleas for emancipation, and bids for equal rights were never initially successful when they involved violence. Each early attempt failed quite miserably, however, those who persevered learned from past failures of violent displays, and eventually found success if they were to approach it appropriately.

What is Mr. Watt’s risk factors related to colon cancer? Consider all aspects of his health, his family history and his culture.

The NHS have found that bowel cancer is one of the most common cancers in the UK, with around 40,000 new cases being diagnosed every single year. This means that approximately 1 in every 20 people will develop bowel cancer at some point within their lifetime. However, the earlier it is detected, the higher the rate of successful treatment and survival. This is why bowel screening is so important. It has been found that around 90% of those who suffer from bowel cancer are over the age of

The survey was administered on February 20, 2017. The survey was sent to 146 African American males who were graduates of Morehead State University. The emails and names of the participants were provided by Morehead State University’s Development Office. There were 10 questions that were asked of the participants and the survey was available for participants to complete over a three week period of time. Three of the questions were related to demographics such as if they were from Kentucky or outside of the state of Kentucky. The participants also provided their GPA when they graduated, and the length of time that it took them to complete their degrees. An email was sent to 146 participants stating the purpose of the survey. Students

When we hear the words “justice system” we should be thinking about fairness, justness, honesty, righteousness, but in contrary what comes to mind is inequality, injustice, corruption, dishonestly. The definition for institutional inequality is the existence of unequal opportunities and rewards for different social positions or statuses within a group of society (about.com) and this is what people of color are facing in a daily basis. On this project I intend to research about the ratio of African American and other ethnic groups incarcerated versus whites and other races, also how this affects the community, why such a high percentage of African American he age group 25-29 are incarcerated and the racial disparities that exist in the

The incidence rates varied depending on the type of cancer. Non-indigenous people had higher rates for:

I do agree that the population at large and myself have some degree of racial bias. The population may learn racial bias from family, friends, school, and their peers. Racial bias may also be learned where one was raised. For example, if one was raised in a small town, not with a variety of races, this may cause some bias towards a certain race or perhaps not at all. When compared to a person that was raised in a city with a variety of races. Many people have their views about a race. The test results suggested that I was slight automatic preference for European Americans over African Americans.

During the 1840’s the Northeast has the lower African American population. While Maine, Vermont and New Hampshire has the lowest population by percentage of African American. Maryland having the highest population by percentage of African American in the Northeast. While in the southeast the highest population by percentage of African American is 55+ percent. The lowest percentage by population of African American in the United States during the 1840’s is 20-24.99 percentage range. The states Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas has the lowest percentage. Louisiana and South Carolina having the highest percentage of African Americans during the time. Throughout the Mid-West, Michigan and Iowa has a percentage range of 1-.49 percentage stating to

“Gone too soon” are the words often used following the tragedy of death. Within the past few years, black Americans have been specifically targeted as victims of racial hate crimes. In 2016, more than 250 black Americans were killed by police (Huffington Post). The deaths of black Americans have become an epidemic, one that will have lasting effects on society. One effect is that of the “Black Lives Matter” movement which was birthed after the murder of an unarmed black teen in Sanford, FL. On February 26, 2012, Trayvon Martin was fatally shot by a neighborhood watchman while walking home from a convenience store. In “Skittles for Trayvon: A Diminishing Suite in Verse”, Lillian Bertram paints a vivid depiction of the events leading

African Americans have been through so much since being uprooted from their home in Africa. Most people do not understand what happened to African Americans and they understand what they had to go through to be where they are today. It went from being kings in the comfort of their home to being thrown on a boat packed like sardines to be forced to work in the fields. The trip was a massacre itself because many did not make it due to the treatment from others. African Americans have always been treated like outsiders and it took many people to sway the perception of others to be where they are today. Through all the ups and downs African Americans persevered and made it out the struggle. African Americans has always been treated badly all groups of people and they always looked down on African Americans. Throughout the history involving African American, it showed the constant inferiority treatment. African Americans were slaves years ago, people still look at blacks as less important than other people. Slavery has a huge impact on our society today because people are still bias and unfair towards African Americans, most African Americans are still living in poverty and don’t have proper education beyond high school which is why they don’t have the equal opportunity for jobs. African Americans still continue to sit in the shadow behind white people.

The questions that may arise are why are the rates of cancer in this group of people exceed other ethnic groups? We may also ask if social economic, risk factors, traditional values, education, language barriers halt the direction for reducing the alarming rate. The fact that China has the ninth highest incidence rate of liver cancer of males worldwide while lung cancer incidence among women in China is also the ninth highest worldwide, makes it deserving of special attention.