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PATRICIA A. SHARPE‚ PHD MPH U MARY L. GREANEY‚ MPH PETER R. LEE‚ MPH * SHERER W. ROYCE‚ MPH Assets-Oriented Community Assessment S Y N 0 P S I S Dr. Sharpe‚ Ms. Greaney‚ and Ms. Royce are with the Prevention Research Center at the University of South Carolina School of Public Health. Dr. Sharpe is Research Associate Determining how to promote community health requires that community health workers first assess where the community stands. The authors maintain that Healthy Communities
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of development of its member states‚ thus thwarting regional integration. Economic factors such as productivity levels‚ social factors such as education which relate to the employment rates and literacy of citizens‚ as well as the political‚ and geopolitical factors with respects to natural resources such as oil and natural gas‚ are a few of the issues which suppress the success of integration as envisioned by CARICOM. The ideology of CARICOM is that as an integrated region‚ the Caribbean would
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exported such as the United States. The importance of Colombia’s geographical location has also been stressed by others foreign analysts. Indeed‚ MacDonald in 1998 stated that: “first and foremost ‚ the South American country benefits from its geopolitical location. It is strategically located between the coca producing nations of Peru and Bolivia and the routes through the Caribbean and Central America that lead to the lucrative North American and European markets”. But MacDonald is not the only
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means that is diplomacy (Bensel‚ 2000). American has been through this process on different occasions whether self initiated or brought up by second and third parties. Imperialism comes about through several sources that include economic sources‚ geopolitical sources as well as cultural motives. These sources hold various degrees of imperialism depending on their application and their causative agents. Cultural motives vary from religion factors to gender diversity among other factors. On the religious
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The following text is about the regionalism after the end of Cold War. In also includes the brief introduction of the conflict‚ actions and circumstances which were happening after the end and which have a direct relations which the further situation. I would like to introduce briefly the main information about this particular conflict. Basically‚ the Cold War (1945-1991) was a political and military tension after the Second World War between two great powers: the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc
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diseases such as leprosy‚ illegitimacy‚ sexual orientation‚ gender identity‚ skin tone‚ education‚ nationality‚ ethnicity‚ ideology‚ religion (or lack of religion) or criminality. Attributes associated with social stigma often vary depending on the geopolitical and corresponding sociopolitical contexts employed by society‚ in different parts of the world. There are three forms of social stigma 1. Overt or external deformations‚ such as scars‚ physical manifestations of anorexia nervosa‚ leprosy (leprosy
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The Cold War was a conflict in international politics that arose between the countries of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Especially the United States and the Soviet Union in the period from the end of the Second World War in 1945 until the Soviet Union collapse in 1991. The cold war was a fight between American capitalism on one side against Soviet planned economy. The two sides warring ideologies fought each other on many areas such as militarily‚ technology‚ politics‚ economy and culturally. Especially
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‘entering the global community’ seemed utopian. Ukraine’s profile in the international arena was very modest and few people beyond the former Soviet space were aware of its existence – a state of affairs at odds with its central position on the geopolitical map of Europe and the world. The events of the Orange Revolution in December 2004 opened up new opportunities not only for Ukraine but for neighboring states as well. The Ukrainian people captured the world’s imagination with their struggle
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households. But with Europe being dependent on Russian gas imports with up to 90% could allow this to happen as it was proven by the situation in January 2006‚ when Russia cut off all gas supplies passing through Ukrainian territory because of geopolitical disputes about the price of natural gas supplied and the cost of tranzit. The result was that numerous European countries did not receive the gas in the middle of the winter. Since then‚ Europe has been looking for alternative gas resources finding
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