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    Minorities in WV

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    Western Governors University Minority Cultures in West Virginia Section D During the following pages I would like to explore Mexican and Chinese culture. I will take a look at their commonalities or differences among cuisine which will include popular ingredients as well as a one ingredient‚ dairy‚ which Asian cooks shy away from. Also discussed in this paper will be religious ideas in both cultures which will include historical background as well as current traditions

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    Vulnerable Population

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    vulnerable population can be a group of people that show factors of an increased chance of their health status becoming poor. This can be that they are lacking access to care and their chance of illness is higher than other patients (Stanhope and Lancaster‚ 2014). In other words‚ vulnerable populations are at risk for poor physical‚ psychological or social health (De Chesnay‚ 2012). One population in particular are adults living in poverty. Vulnerability can occur in any population leading to

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    Health disparity is the health outcome of between different populations. Health is put on a scale of either good or bad between populations. For example‚ people of different race‚ sex‚ age and so on (Healthy People 2020‚ n.d.). Healthy disparity is a health difference in people due to disadvantages of where people live‚ how much money they make and discrimination. 2.Which racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected by health disparities? Why? Many studies have shown that African Americans

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    Gender disparities between boys and girls pursuing STEM related courses is evident starting in primary school and are due to an array of factors‚ including societal‚ familial‚ and cultural influences. Although‚ access to education for women and girls have improved globally‚ disparities in the access to a basic education still persist‚ thereby influencing the gender gap in STEM education. To demonstrate‚ a study conducted in the United Kingdom‚ found at ages ten to eleven both boys and girls equally

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    There are several factors that contribute to the existence of health disparities. Such factors include‚ socio-economic factor‚ geographic location‚ education‚ culture‚ religion-belief system‚ gender and sexual identity. There are several models that explain disparities in health. (Coreil‚ 2010) describes several models that explain health disparities. Such models include the racial-genetic model‚ health behavior model‚ racial and ethnic model‚ social-economic model‚ psychological model and the structural-constructivist

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    “deinstitutionalize” the mentally ill – prisons and jails became the new de facto mental health asylums. In 2015‚ according to the Treatment Advocacy Center‚ in 44 of the 50 states‚ “the largest prison or jail held more people with serious mental illness than the largest psychiatrist hospital.” Therefore‚ in a country where incarcerating people with mental challenges seems to be a more viable option than treatment‚ it is inevitable to question the policies and

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    Supermax Prisons

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    The Federal Bureau of Prisons oversees 114 correctional institutions throughout the United States. Most of them are classified as Minimum to Medium security‚ Levels I-IV. These facilities house everyday criminals‚ and only contain a very small number of high-profile‚ high risk inmates. There are 22 prisons‚ however‚ that are dedicated to keeping the most dangerous humans in the country off the streets. These are Super-Maximum Security prisons‚ or Supermax. They are classified as Levels V-VI‚ and

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    Minorities are being overrepresented in the criminal justice system with numbers as high as “30% of the probation population (approximately 1.2 million people)‚ 44% of the prison population (est. 586‚300)‚ and over 40% for the parole population (est. 309‚000)” all of which are African American (Taxman‚ Byrne‚ 2005). The numbers continue to grow for the Hispanic population as well “12% of probationers (491‚700)‚ 18% of parolees (136‚000)‚ and 19% of prison inmates (251‚000) are Hispanic” (Taxman‚

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    Confinement In Prisons

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    States‚ with only 5% of the world’s population‚ holds 25% of the world’s prison population. There are currently 2.23 million juveniles and adults incarcerated in American jails‚ prisons‚ detention centers‚ and the like (Wagner and Rabuy 2015). With record-high rates of incarceration‚ it is not surprising that there is a great deal of controversial debate around the subject‚ including the ways in which incarcerated individuals are treated within prisons. While inmates all face different challenges while

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    Jails & Prisons

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    and role while having to be diverse. Jails hold a variety of inmates‚ those who have been arrested‚ detained pending trial‚ sentenced to short terms of confinement for minor crimes‚ and those being held for administrative transfer to another unit. These facilities face issues such as dealing with unknown offenders‚ managing medical problems and detoxifications and still provide the court with security and transportation for inmates. Jails were first created in England and originally used in

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