Racial and ethnic disparities in health disproportionately affect minority Americans. One of the greatest challenges facing the US healthcare system is the persistence of disparities in infant and maternal health among the different racial and ethnic groups. Now a day a major concern which is affecting communities on overall pertaining to childbirth is preterm births in the United States of America. In fact‚ preterm births and low birth weight have negative consequences not only for the infants
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a possible solution to end the ongoing ethnic conflict in The Philippines. The Muslim Filipinos of Mindanao and the Christian Filipinos have been fighting the second oldest internal ethnic dispute in the world. Over 120‚000 people have died and 2 million have been displaced in this four decades long battle.1 For many years‚ the central government’s attempts at peace‚ institutional restructuring‚ and regional autonomy have failed. It is clear that this ethnic conflict must be resolved in order for
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The Meaning Behind ‘Traditional Marriage” “In Sacred Rite or Civil Right‚” Howard Moody‚ a Baptist minister‚ discusses his inner thoughts on the subject of marriage. He explains the tradition of marriage and informs the rights and freedoms of the people along with describing how it all affects people whether they are against it or with it. Most Christians of all denominations believe that a “traditional marriage” is the union between two people of the opposite sex and only have one significant
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where people are allowed to practice and conserve their ethnic Identity. But this never was the general case in Indonesia. There is this insidious ordinary racism in the country that takes place in their everyday living. Because this sacred diversity is however limited to ethnic groups with claims to a territory: this includes the Javanese‚ the Sundanese and the Madurese. There are other local groups that are not as significant. For the other groups that can not have the same claims‚ it is another story
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Discuss how far sociologists would agree that crime statistics exaggerate crime levels among particular ethnic groups… Many sociologists would agree that crime statistics exaggerate crime levels among particular ethnic groups whilst others would suggest that ethnic minority groups do commit crime at higher levels. There is growing evidence that crime statistics for ethnic minorities are not an accurate valid representation of crime in society. Statistics say that young‚ black people are eight times
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Canon Company History and Background Canon Company is one of the largest corporations in the world which produce camera‚ printer‚ photo state machines‚ and other digital imaging. The Company was founded in 1937. The main quarters are placed at Tokyo‚ Japan. Until now the Canon Company already established all around the world. The Canon Company was founded by Takeshi Matarai‚ Goro Tosida‚ Saburo Uchida and Takeo Maeda. For the first ten years of company operation it was named as “Kwanon”. They changed
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Transracial adoption also known as TRA‚ is defined as the adoption of children of a different race or culture from their adoptive parents‚ has been a controversial issue in the United States. Social workers are usually the one that match the child with the “parents” when it comes to adoption. The number of adoptive parents does not relate with the number of adoptive minority children. Therefore‚ more parents of a different race are able to adopt them. Many social workers see transracial adoption
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Filipino Traditional Games for Kids While I was walking yesterday‚ I saw a group of children playing ‘luksong baka’. They were having fun while enjoying the game. Then I remember my childhood days twenty five years ago. I also use to play that kind of game with my neighboring kids especially on weekends. As years went by‚ these Filipino traditional games for kids are slowly disappearing. You can rarely see Filipino kids playing patintero‚ tumbang preso‚ luksong tinik‚ luksong baka‚ taguan‚ syato
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Religion and Ethnic Diversity Religion and Ethnic Diversity This video discusses the mass diversity of religion in the United States‚ especially in Los Angeles. Los Angeles is a place where immigrants go to escape the poverty and disparity of their homelands yet keep a strong hold on their religious beliefs and practices. Rather than falling into American culture the immigrants are able to keep a strong hold on their individual religious beliefs. In Los Angeles there are over one hundred languages
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Being an ethnic minority and the contextual factors that come with it contribute to anxiety disorders among youth. All the disadvantages that come with being a minority interact in a way that produces a stressful environment‚ furthering feelings of anxiety. The most commonly associated variable with minority status is low socioeconomic status. Both of these factors are related to symptoms of anxiety. From a socio-ecological perspective racial minority status is part of the exosystem‚ which forms
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