vulnerable population. Vulnerable because of their limited access to proper health care and a resultant risk for poor health as a result of their economic status‚ age‚ ethnicity‚ disease process and other factors. (Vulnerable Populations: Who Are They?‚ 2006) A first of its kind 2012 Gallup poll will help give a clearer picture. Poll results show 3.5% of the U.S. population identifies as lesbian‚ gay‚ bisexual or transgender (LGBT). On a state-by-state basis the distribution of this population doesn’t
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Advocate Christ medical Center Health Planning and Policy Management EHC 4498 Heather Cooper 2/2/2014 Advocate Christ Medical Center‚ opened in 1961‚ it is a teaching hospital that is ranked as a top one hundred facility and is located in Oak Lawn‚ Illinois. Advocate Christ Medical Center is a seven hundred sixty-four bed medical center (Center‚ 2014)‚ in 2012 this facility had forty thousand seven hundred and sixty seven admissions. In 2012 alone this hospital performed eleven thousand
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Population Health Working in a rural emergency room‚ this author cares for individuals‚ on a daily basis‚ who suffer from drug abuse and addiction. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention identifies these individuals as Persons Who Use Drugs under the Specific Populations category (Healthy Living‚ 2017). Working with persons who use drugs (PWUD) daily is difficult for some in different ways. One may become sad seeing the destructive path that is formed from drug abuse or one may become
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Sangamner India’s Growing Population Abstract The population explosion is a curse for the developing countries like India‚ the population explosion is a curse and is damaging to the development of the country and its society. The developing countries already facing a lack of their resources‚ and with the rapidly increasing population‚ the resources available per person are reduced further‚ leading to increased poverty‚ malnutrition‚ and other large population-related problems. The present
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Status of Aged in India J. Balamurugan‚ Research Scholar‚ Department of Sociology‚ Pondicherry University. Dr. G. Ramathirtham‚ Associate Professor‚ Department of Sociology‚ Pondicherry University. INTRODUCTION Ageing is a byproduct of physical‚ psychological and social processes. While contextualizing the process of ageing‚ the main thrust of the sociology both as a discipline and movement‚ is to reflect on how and to what extent transformations in the society and of the individual
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quickly released but Oggi was in prison for eight months before finally being released to his paraplegic‚ wheelchair-bound‚ and now clinically depressed owner‚ Brian. Zack and Oggi are dogs. The sad truth is that Brian‚ Zack and Oggi were lucky. Breed Specific Legislation (BSL)‚ a law introduced in 1991 banning the ownership of
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Population growth in yeast Aim: To study the population growth rate of yeast‚ a microorganism Saccharomyces cerevesiae Variables: | | Units | Independent variable | Time the readings were taken | Hours | Dependent variable | Absorbance (increasing yeast population) | - | Controlled variables | Units | Possible effects on result | The wave lengths | Nanometer | since the transmission and absorbance is being measured at a specific wave length‚ so if we change it the results
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Specific Language Impairment is a concept to discuss as it is generally considered that 5-11% of the population suffers from it. Additionally being able to communicate is important to the children’s social and emotional development. SLI occurs when children do not have a normal language development and this abnormal development cannot be explained by hearing problems‚ neurological deviation‚ physical/emotional problems and cognitive deficiencies (Bishop‚ 2006; Leonard‚ 1998). Additionally SLI leads
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Abstract Water is a finite resource which means that the total amount of water in the planet is only limited. Its supply remains the same and yet human population recently grows resulting to a decrease of available amount of freshwater per person. The relatively small amount of available freshwater elaborates on how critical it is for everyone to help preserve and maintain clean‚ healthy lakes and streams‚ our sources of water. Water is mostly now being wasted because it is under-priced. We do not
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Vulnerable Population in the Workplace When diagnosed with breast cancer‚ “Older women face a range of issues that differs greatly from those of younger women” ("Breast cancer issues for older women‚" 2011‚ para. 2). For example‚ older women often think about how to keep their remaining years more meaningful. Whatever choice for treatment is‚ when a member of this vulnerable population is diagnosed‚ there is the strong possibility that she may not have a sufficient support system. This paper
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