employment. Pregnant women have significant legislated rights other than those under the Human Rights Code‚ hereinafter referred to as “the Code”‚ most importantly under the Ontario Employment Standards Act (ESA) and the federal Employment Insurance Act (EIA). These rights may overlap with the Code protections‚ or may provide additional protections. Common negative stereotypes and attitudes are often causes for discrimination in employment on the basis of pregnancy‚ such as the fact that a pregnant woman
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is very important for a mother to lead a healthy lifestyle when she becomes pregnant. She must eat healthy‚ get lots of rest‚ and exercise regularly. It is even more imperative that she avoids things that may harm her or potentially her baby. Amongst things she must avoid‚ alcohol‚ cigarettes‚ and drugs are the most vital. For a pregnant woman‚ drug use and abuse is twice as dangerous as for someone who is not pregnant. First‚ drugs will harm her own health‚ interfering with her ability to support
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Running head: SMOKING CESSATION Smoking Cessation in Pregnant Women Maureen Walker Sinclair Community College Nursing 230 – 02 Smoking during pregnancy causes long term effects on the unborn child. More than 10% of pregnant women smoke in the United States today (American Cancer Society‚ 2007)‚ and in some geographical areas that number is as high as 39% (Bailey‚ 2006). Managing smoking cessation during the prenatal period is a challenge that health practitioners are faced with
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Hypothetical: You’re 25‚ you’re pregnant‚ and you just got the promotion of a lifetime. Everything is great. That is until your boss calls you into his office. He’s disappointed. He doesn’t understand how you could be so irresponsible to get pregnant‚ you needed to dedicate all of your time to this position. You had so much potential and he expected more from you. You go home with a box of your belongings and tears in your eyes. Before us we have a similar situation‚ virtually the only difference
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this biasness from the perspectives of both employee and employer. It then follows with a study on the legal protections in place to prevent such behaviour. And lastly‚ it will analyse various ethical issues involved in this unequal treatment of pregnant employees in the workplace using ethical frameworks such as Utilitarianism theory‚ Kantian Ethics and John Rawls’ Justice as Fairness. These ethical frameworks will help highlight how pregnancy discrimination is morally wrong and in addition‚ more
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attempts. The many problems that arise are from a lack of social and environmental resources that leads to poor decision-making. Teen pregnancy has been on the decline since 1990 dropping 40%. In the United States about 975‚000 teens 15 – 19 become pregnant every year. Pregnancies for black and Hispanic teens are two to three times higher than white teenagers ("U.S. teen pregnancy‚" 2012‚ para. 3). Birth rates of 20.1 per 1000 teenagers from 15 -17‚ and 0.5 per 1000 for the youngest age group 10 –
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Unexplained infertility Some women get pregnant quickly‚ while for others it may take much longer. The question is that how long is normal? If couples cannot conceive after 1 year of regular unprotected intercourse‚ they may have a fertility problem which is defined as infertility. Infertility can be caused by many conditions such as lack of ovulation‚ blocked fallopian tubes‚ PCOS‚ endometriosis etc in female or low sperm counts‚ poor sperm quality‚ varicose veins etc in male. However in 30% of
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NOT POOR‚ JUST BROKE By: DICK GREGORY Page: 46 1. Pregnant people get strange tastes. I was pregnant with poverty. Pregnant with dirt and pregnant with smells that made people turn away‚ pregnant with cold and pregnant with shoes that were never bought for me‚ pregnant with other five people in my bed and no daddy in next room‚ and pregnant with hunger. Paste doesn’t taste too bad when you’d hungry. Why do you think the author compare Richard’s situation to the pennant’s situation? 2. Answer: Personally
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For some people getting pregnant can be the happiest time of their life‚ a wanted baby‚ the family you always wanted‚ but for some people finding out you’re pregnant can be unwanted and down right scary. As adults‚ for most of us‚ after the shock wears off‚ we start planning and come to terms that we are going to have a baby. Teenagers on the other hand are very different. They have different priorities and they don’t have the emotional stability to make educated life decisions and this has become
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------------------------------------------------- Methodological Basis of CDSS There are many different methodologies that can be used by a CDSS in order to provide support to the health care professional.[8] The basic components of a CDSS include a dynamic (medical) knowledge base and an inferencing mechanism (usually a set of rules derived from the experts and evidence-based medicine) and implemented through medical logic modules based on a language such as Arden syntax. It could be based on Expert
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