in the US include; Alaska Native/ American Indian‚ Asian American‚ Black/African American‚ Hispanic/ Latino‚ and Native Hawaiian/ Pacific Islander (NHPI). Health status and disparities vary with each group as does health promotion. After analyzing each specific minority group the author of this paper has chosen to focus on the Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander population (NHPI). In this paper the author will compare and contrast the selected minority group’s current health status with the national
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responder is now been positioned as if they were looking out from the raft‚ the place of the Man. An immediate bond has now been formed between the responder and the man‚ and for the rest of the text we continue to sympathise with him. The angry mob of Islanders drawn on the following pages when the Man arrives‚ are incredibly threatening as they are large‚ dark and armed. Not only is their physical presence intimidating‚ but their attitudes towards the unassuming Man are prejudiced and hostile. They say
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Straight Islanders. Another on going issue as a result of European settlement is racism. Due to past discriminatory policies and legislation‚ Aboriginal people have been denied access and participation in education‚ access to information‚ training and employment and health‚ resulting in grief and substance abuse. It is important in a childhood education and care service to take into account these historical/contemporary issues and the culture of the Aboriginal/Torres Straight Islanders when implementing
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excessively high occurrence of prison suicide as associated to the general population. Suicide is a major cause of death among prisoners and the assessment of suicide risk should not be viewed as a single opportunity at intake but rather an ongoing process (Weiner & Otto‚ 2013). An inmate can become suicidal at any point during their confinement therefore suicide-related forensic assessment procedures should begin at the point of transfer to the correctional facility and continue until the offender is released
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3 The Social‚ Cultural and Historical Context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians PatDudgeon‚MichaelWright‚YinParadies‚ DarrenGarveyandIainWalker OVERVIEW To understand the contemporary life of Indigenous Australians‚ a historical and cultural background is essential. This chapter sets the context for further discussions about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and issues related to their social and emotional wellbeing and mental health. The history
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address Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) and the various issues associated with the group. AAPIs come from approximately 50 countries and ethnic groups‚ each with distinct cultures‚ traditions‚ and histories. Asian Americans have origins from East Asia‚ Southeast Asia‚ and the Indian subcontinent (Social Security‚ 2011). Pacific Islanders are people having origins in Hawaii‚ Guam‚ Samoa‚ or other Pacific Islands. Many Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders have lived in the U.S. for quite
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Aboriginal and Islander Heath Organisation‚ which states that Health is a multidimensional concept‚ which embraces all aspects of living and stresses the importance that Aboriginal people place on being in harmony with the environment as well as survival (1982). This embraces the idea that health is achieved through implementing all aspects of living‚ including biological‚ physical‚ environmental‚ cultural‚ spiritual and politicoeconomic factors of living (National Aboriginal and Islander Heath Organisation
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bombing. As an Islander‚ learning about this event was very upsetting. Many families were forced out of their homes. President Christopher Loeak‚ the voice of his people demand justice. Due to the nuclear bombing many have to face the difficulties of homeliness. On March of 1954 U.S. launched a nuclear bomb testing. This bomb erupted on Bikini Island killing‚ injuring‚ and infecting thousands. Those uninjured were traumatized for the remaining of their lives. Being an Islander raised in the
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California Press Ltd. Langnes‚ L.‚ L. and Frank. G (1978). Fact‚ Fiction and the Ethnographic Novel. Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly‚ 3 (1-2)‚ pp. 18 – 22. Metcalf‚ P. (2002). They Lie‚ We Lie: Getting on with Anthropology. London: Routledge Malinowski‚ B. (1984). Argonauts of the Western Pacific: An Account of Native Enterprise and Adventure in the Archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea. United States of America: Waveland Press‚ Inc. Pratt‚ L.‚ M. (1986). Fieldwork in Common Places. In: J. Clifford
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New York: Chelsea House‚ 1988. Print. 4. This book was published by PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS‚ which is located in PRINCETON‚ New Jersey. It was written my Myron Weiner. Wiener’s book was called THE CHILD AND THE STATE IN INDIA: CHILD LABOR AND EDUCATION POLICY IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE. It appeared in 1991. Weiner‚ Myron. The Child and the State in India: Child Labor and Education Policy in Comparative Perspective. Princeton: Princeton UP‚ 1991. Print. 5. An article entitled
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