Health Disparities: Focus on the Filipino-American Population in the USA As a Filipino-American nurse living in Los Angeles‚ California‚ this writer has been a witness and an active participant in the multifactorial influences/aspects that affect the Filipino-Americans‚ in health and illness. Being a grandmother of wonderful grandkids has brought me further exposure to the plight of elderly Filipino-Americans in the United States of America. The Institute of Medicine’s Report on Unequal Treatment:
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Development Goals‚ including the eradication of hunger‚ reduction of child mortality and improvement of maternal health. Underweight‚ underheight One of the issues the 2008 NNS looked into is children?s nutrition. The research found that the number of Filipino children who were underweight and underheight or stunted increased from 2005 to 2008. The prevalence of underweight children aged 0-5 years increased from 24.6 percent to 26.2 percent‚ about 3.35 million children. The underheight rate increased
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Running Head: DEPRESSION AMONG MISSIONARIES Depression Among International Missionaries Jonathan E. Sullivan Liberty University Abstract Missionaries have a unique calling accompanied by unique challenges over the course of their service. As these individuals and families face these challenges‚ depression can be an enemy that hinders and even stops the good work they perform. While most of the time a professional counselor can be seen in the United States to help with depression‚ a therapist
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Sexual Initiation Among Filipino Youth Today‚ Filipino youth tend to engage in early sexual initiations. With our modern day culture telling them it’s perfectly okay to have sex even before marriage; the youth is misled with their true understanding of sexuality. Sexuality belongs within marriage and that it is not simply a pleasure done out of curiosity and without respect. Because of higher exposure to sex from the internet‚ magazines‚ TV shows‚ movies‚ modern music and other media‚ the youth’s
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“The Image of Filipino Women” The Philippines’ strongest resource is its people. Numerous people from the past to present have shown that Filipinos can achieve great heights through hard work and unity. Ninoy Aquino fought for democracy in the Philippines. Diego Silang conspired with British forces to overthrow Spanish rule. Andres Bonifacio is the father of the Katipunan. Jose Rizal died for the freedom of the Filipino people. All these men showed exemplary performance in shaping and developing
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”(Feldstein) The story is about a young mother who experiences with postpartum depression. While the narrator is clearly suffering from a kind of psychological distress at the beginning of the story‚ her mental state is worsened by her husband’s medical opinion that she confines herself to the house. Using the story and other research we can now see how the treatment for postpartum depression has improve and change over the years. Postpartum depression After using the term of “the rest cure”‚ a long time researchers
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MENTAL ILLNESS AND ITS TREATMENTS Postpartum depression is defined as‚ “a mood disorder that can affect women after childbirth… [and can cause] feelings of extreme sadness‚ anxiety‚ and exhaustion that may make it difficult for them to complete daily care activities for themselves or for others.” Today postpartum depression is a mental illness that is widely known‚ but in the late 1800’s when Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote “The Yellow Wallpaper‚” postpartum depression was not known. In fact‚ Charlotte
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actually what would have helped her get better in the first place. The best treatment to depression is to get up‚ go do stuff‚ and spend time with friends and family. Charlotte Perkins Gilman is trying to get across how women were seen as such fragile beings‚ and no one would listen to what they thought was best for them. John and other physicians of the time thought that the best way to treat postpartum depression was to pull the woman away from her baby‚ and bring her to a vacation home that was isolated
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the novel “A Women Among Warlords” the author‚ Malalai Joya‚ educates the reader on the historical suppression of both men and women in Afghanistan. While the novel focuses on Joya’s upbringing and ultimately her career as a teacher and as a member Afghan parliament‚ the novel brings to the light her encounters as a progressive leader‚ with both men and women whom has faced hardships due to unequal rights. Joya uses her encounters to educate the reader on not only the hardships women have faced but
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which resulted in Charlotte suffering from postpartum depression. Charles and Charlotte ended up separating‚ however she did remarry to her first cousin in 1900. Charlotte moved to California with Katharine in 1888‚ and it was at this time that Gilman became
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