Teen Risk-Taking: A Statistical Portrait Contents Portrait Highlights Measuring Health Risk Behaviors Changes in Overall Risk-Taking‚ 1991-1997 Multiple Risks and Positive Behaviors Reaching Multiple-Risk Teens A Time for Cautious Optimism Endnotes Portrait Highlights The most serious threats to the health and safety of adolescents and young adults are preventable. They result from such risk-taking behaviors as fighting‚ substance abuse‚ suicide‚ and sexual activity rather than from
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Racial Profiling Against Hispanics Racial profiling is the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense. Racial profiling against Hispanics includes people from North American‚ South American and Central Americans. An example of racial profiling against Hispanics is by the color of our skin‚ which the majority skin tone (Color) is brown but not all of them‚ some may be a different color and are Hispanics. Sadly‚ our identity is defined by the color of
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Alcohol Abuse among Hispanics Hispanics are the largest and most rapidly growing ethnic group in the United States‚ making up about 17 percent of the population‚ or more than 50 million people. Research shows that drinking patterns among Hispanics are different from those of non-Hispanic Whites and other ethnic or racial groups (National Institute of Alcohol and Alcoholism‚ 2015). Hispanics’ drinking problem is associated with low socioecomic status such as poverty and low education‚ acculturation
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The Hispanic Community Grand Canyon University Concepts in Community and Public Health NRS-427V-O104 October 27‚ 2013 The Hispanic Community Based on the United States (U.S.) Census Bureau in 2011‚ there were roughly 52 million Hispanics living in the nation‚ which represented about 16.7% of the total population (Zepeda‚ 2011). People of Hispanic origin are the nation’s largest ethnic minority group (Zepeda‚ 2011). Arizona’s Hispanic
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On October 12th I volunteered in union with the Multicultural Center at the annual Hispanic Heritage Celebration‚ the apex of a series of events that took place across Hispanic Heritage Month‚ helping to educate the campus about Hispanic culture. The celebration took place in the Galaxy rooms in the SU from 7to 9pm which featured a talent show‚ a country flag display‚ a mariachi performance‚ a poetry recitation‚ followed by a traditional cultural meal. I chose to volunteer at this event because
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The Hispanic Challenge According to Samuel P. Huntington‚ Mexicans and Hispanics are threats to American culture because the Anglo-Protestant culture is what originally started the United States of America‚ not Hispanics. Samuel believes the United States identity is being challenged by the large-scale of Mexican immigration‚ bilingualism‚ and failure to assimilate. Samuel argues that the contiguity encourages immigration and that it has steadily been increasing. The number of immigrants coming
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My Hispanic culture and ethnicity means more to me than just being able to speak Spanish. Being Hispanic captivates my personality and lifestyle from being raised in a Puerto Rican family. While my father is African American‚ I’ve always lived with my mother and her family‚ influencing me more with the Puerto Rican culture. The Catholic religion is very important to my family and culture‚ however I do not go to church that often. But‚ I do believe in all of the principles in ideas that are represented
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Part 2 Female Patient Patient ID: Miss. F Date of Birth: 06/10/1993 Gender: Female Race: Hispanic Occupation: Works in a Factory in Yukon Marital status : Divorced Source: The patient gives her own history and appears to be a reliable source. Chief Complaint: “I am having abdominal pain” History of Present Illness Miss F is 23 year old Hispanic female who presents today complaining of sharp‚ epigastric abdominal pain of 3-4 months duration. The pain has not changed or worsened acutely;
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Abstract In this paper the theories of multigenerational family therapy and structural family therapy are applied to the Melendez family. Beginning with the biography of the Hispanic family‚ assessment of the strengths and vulnerabilities of the family‚ stage of the family life cycle‚ cultural elements that impact the family and explanation of the types and qualities of relationships depicted in the Melendez genogram and ecomap the foundation for therapeutic goals and interventions are set. Goals
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Music from the hispanic carribean has become a major part of the culture accross major cities in the United States‚ which there has been many influences on music in the Hispanic Carribean. There’s a variety of genres with music in the Hispanic Carribean such as merengue‚ salsa‚ Spanish-language hip hop‚ Latin jazz‚ reggaeton‚ and many others. There’s many culture differences between the Hispanic Carribean nations‚ but according to the reading‚ “a certain pan-Latino sense of identity‚ of shared values
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