The Disparities between Crack Cocaine and Powder Cocaine The Disparities between Crack and Powder Cocaine Coca is a leafed plant that grows in the eastern slopes of the Andes. Cocaine is the world’s most powerful stimulant made naturally. This plant has been used be Indians for at least 5000 years. Traditionally‚ the leaves of the coca plant have been chewed for social‚ mystical‚ medicinal and religious purposes. Columbia is the lead producer of cocaine they supply eighty percent of the world’s
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The term disparities are referred to as differences. Health disparities are differences between groups of people in health. These differences vary from presence of disease‚ access to healthcare‚ from racial/ethnic groups‚ gender‚ age groups‚ environment‚ and socioeconomic groups. These differences exist largely in the United States with minorities consisting of African Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Latinos‚ and Native Americans. For example the cancer rate of African Americans is ten percent higher
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2008; Taylor‚ 2012). As a social work intern at Monroe County Correctional Facility‚ this topic becomes of great importance when working with inmates experiencing grief and loss. Providing treatment to these inmates mitigates the difficulties related to reentry‚ enhances the “ability to cope with prison life” (Hendry‚ 2009‚ p. 271)‚ and decreases the likelihood of recidivism (Hendry‚ 2009). Prevalence of Grief in Correctional Facilities The research that is accessible on grief and loss
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Issue Paper: Disparities in Access to Healthcare According to the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)‚ health disparities are defined as “population-specific differences in the presence of disease‚ health outcomes‚ or access to healthcare” (2013). In the United States‚ health disparities are a well-known problem among ethnic minorities such as African Americans‚ Asian Americans‚ Native Americans‚ and Latinos. Studies have shown that these groups have a higher prevalence of chronic
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Connected for Health The Potential of Health Information and Communications Technologies to Reduce Health Care Disparities In today’s technology-filled world‚ we have become dependent on the Internet for everything from doing any research (“Google it”)‚ making travel and restaurant reservations‚ paying our bills‚ managing our investments‚ finding recipes for dinner‚ making charitable and political contributions‚ all types of shopping‚ and on and on. And we communicate primarily by e-mail
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Disparity and Discrimination Essay Joy Garza University of Phoenix Cultural Diversity Issues in Criminal Justice CJA/344 November 09‚ 2011 Disparity and Discrimination Essay Throughout the United States discrimination has deeply threaded itself in the way people socialize toward different ethnical backgrounds. According to criminal justice system‚ disparity is referred to a numerous amount of arrests and sentencing for certain ethnic groups of people. It predominantly refers to racial and
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recidivism and young minority offenders are rearrested more often. Most new crime is normally nonviolent‚ less serious felonies and misdemeanors with violent offenders being the least likely to recommit another violent crime. The Department of Correctional Education offers academic‚ vocational and transition programs to those persons who enter the Department of Corrections. Academic programs include instruction in literacy (Literacy Incentive Program)‚ which is mandated by state law for those inmates
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A health disparity is defined by the Surgeon General as “a difference in health outcomes across subgroups of the population . . . that are often linked to social‚ economic‚ or environmental disadvantages”(n.d.). Healthy People has been trying to decrease the amount of health disparities since Healthy People 2000. They started with want to reduce the amount of disparities. Then for Healthy People 2010 the want to eliminate health disparities. Now for Health People 2020 the goal is to “to achieve
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Disparity and Discrimination Cynthia Valentin 11-03-2014 Judith Brodsky CJS/221 Disparity and discrimination in the criminal justice system causes lack of equality based on the certain individual’s religious beliefs‚ color of skin and background. We live in a world where discrimination and disparities should no longer exist but unfortunately they do. The people around us are the ones who make the world what it is today therefore seeing someone for the way they look and not looking
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Population Revision Notes * Population distribution is how a population is spread (distributed) over an area of land. * Population density is the average number of people living in an area‚ given as people per square kilometer. The equation is Population Density = * The terms densely populated and sparsely populated are used to refer to areas with high and low population densities. * The term population density refers to the average number of people in the area and tells is nothing
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