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What can be done to promote better health for the American population? Cardiovascular diseases (CVD), diabetes and adiposity cause deaths, lack of quality life and economic effects on a global scale. Most of the conditions and effects can be prevented and are experienced at very early stages due to the lifestyle habits regarding poor diets, physical in-activities and excessive tobacco consumption. The resulting burdens to the families, societies and countries are very huge and unsustainable (Institute

The American population is overwhelmingly uninformed about the inner workings of the justice system. If the average American was privy to the harsh reality of the injustices suffered by the exorbitant prison population and the shortcomings of the justice system, I suspect a large portion of the population would support prison reform. Indeed, recently there has been major public discourse regarding the justice system. This discourse, among other reasons, made me personally invested in the flaws of

Achieving Better Health for the American Population Erick Dimalanta Western Governors University 000464183 Achieving better health for the American population Improving the health conditions of the American population ensures the increased quality of life. People eat for various reasons with the fundamental reason being for survival purposes. However, the issue of eating to live and living to eat affects people in different manners as most people develop poor eating habits that affect the

risk. Therefore, many studies were involved to check the accuracy of coffee and its effect on cancer especially prostate cancer (CaP). According to the article Coffee Consumption and Prostate Cancer Aggressiveness among African & Caucasian American in a Population-Based Study, there were two studies that examined the effects of Coffee on cancer risk; Meta-analysis and a report from the Health Professionals follow-up study (Arab, Su, Ang, Fontham, Bensen, Mohler, 2011). The meta-analysis indicated a

Healthcare financing for an Aging American population Introduction The following research paper discusses the healthcare financing for an aging American Population. In the discussion, it addresses both the negative and positive perspective of the healthcare financing of this particular population as well as personal position and thoughts. Overview of Aging and Health Care Financing in U.S Just like other parts of the world, the United States is no exceptional, it is an aging society. Between the

Introduction Arab Americans are such a diverse population of immigrants, who have roots that come from the countries of Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, and Palestine just to name a few. Arab American immigrants started to arrive in the United States during the late 19th century. The Arab American population since then has grown to be one of the biggest growing racial groups, next to Asian Americans. The Influence of Social Change and Advocacy A vast majority of Arab Americans were born within the

American homeless populations are around 71% in central cities. Bigger cities tend to have larger numbers of programs in place to help. Knowing this drives homeless people to larger cities increasing the percentage of homeless in these cities. When a person thinks of their career they move where the jobs are, on the other hand homeless people go where the help is. Not saying helping them is a bad idea, but it should be more spread out across our nation to reduce high percentages. To install another

Practitioners Serving Latin American Populations Review of the Literature Hispanic Americans are considered the leading ethnic minority in the United States of America composing 17.4% or 55.4 million of the national population with calculations proposing an increase to 28.6% or 119 million by 2060 (Velasco-Mondragon, Jimenez, Palladino-Davis, Davis, & Escamilla-Cejudo, 2016). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2015), Hispanic Americans primarily suffer from chronic

groups in the Asian-Pacific American population. The major ethnic groups consist of Chinese Americans, Filipinos, Indians, Vietnamese, Koreans and Japenese with the Chines Americans being the largest (Hays & Erford, 2014). There is a struggle with Asia Americans holding to their traditional ways while evolving new surviving skills which may result becoming isolated, enmeshed or disengaged (McCormick, Giordano, & Garcia-Preto, 2010, Landau, 1982). However, some Asia Americans are fortunate with the acculturation

of elevated risk of diet-related cancer and cardiovascular disease amid the U.S. African-American population. Furthermore, studies have demonstrated the importance of building interventions based on the social context as important factors influencing nutrition behaviors. With the problem identified, Shankar et al., (2006) examined a theory-based intervention to increase FVC among low-income African American women, N=212, living in urban public assisted low-income housing. Recruitment occurred via