RHONDA Z. BELUE, PhD; LORI A. FRANCIS, PhD ABSTRACT Studies have indicated that family meals may be a protective factor for childhood obesity; however, limited evidence is available in children with different racial, socioeconomic, and individual characteristics. The purpose of this study was to examine family meal frequency as a protective factor for obesity in a US– based sample of non-Hispanic white, non-Hispanic black, and Hispanic children age 6 to 11 years, and to identify individual…
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PROSECUTION AND RACIAL JUSTICE PROGRAM Do Race and Ethnicity Matter in Prosecution? A Review of Empirical Studies First Edition Besiki Kutateladze Vanessa Lynn Edward Liang Vera Institute of Justice June 2012 © 2012 Vera Institute of Justice. All rights reserved. Additional copies can be obtained from the Communications Department of the Vera Institute of Justice, 233 Broadway, 12th Floor, New York, New York, 10279, (212) 334-1300. An electronic version of this report is available for download…
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revitalize its agricultural sector. Low wages, inability to access a qualitative health care, and in some cases inhuman living conditions make Mexican Americans the most underprivileged ethnical group in the US. Being a nation that celebrates and promotes cultural diversity, America made everything possible to oppress these people. However, there is an issue emerged in the recent studies of scholars which points to the serious impairment between the health state of a Mexican American and the US…
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Health 2/25/2015 Reading Notes 1. Kimberle Crenshaw - Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics (1989) a) A starting point: all the women are white and all the blacks are men. This is the rationale for Kimberle Crenshaw (1989) to develop her feminist criticism because black women are unfortunately marginalized from both gender inequality issue and antiracism fight. She mainly discusses how black…
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old. This common educational practice, aimed to remedy the failing student, has educational psychologists and other professionals questioning the academic effectiveness and social detriment to the child long term. The studies find that the majority of students retained are Hispanic males that are economically disadvantaged due to lower household income levels. Educational psychologists, school psychologists, and sociologists debate the effectiveness and outcome of the ongoing yet controversial…
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state, from school to school. In some cases students who drop out over the summer, or who leave school to get married are not counted as dropouts, in other cases they are counted. Some schools follow up on students who do not return after the summer to determine whether or not they are enrolled in other schools, while other schools do not do that. This way some students could be counted twice, in result accuracy of the school dropout rate suffers. Also in some cases students enrolled in equivalent programs…
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CANCER IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN Prostate Cancer in African American Men In this presentation I will discuss Prostate Cancer in African American men and the the higher incidence of occurrence more aggressively in this vulnerable group than Non- Hispanic whites in America. I will discuss how biological, socioeconomic and screening factors may be to blame in this population. 2 PROSTATE CANCER IN AFRICAN AMERICAN MEN 3 According to Cleveland Clinic in the Journal of Medicine, “Prostate cancer…
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of a TV set in the child's bedroom, with the prevalence of overweight children (body mass index [BMI] >85th percentile) after adjustment for potential confounders. Results. Mean TV/video viewing times were higher among black children and Hispanic children than white children and increased with the child's age. In multiple logistic regression, the odds ratio of children having a BMI >85th percentile was 1.06 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.004-1.11) for each additional hour per day of TV/ video viewed…
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problems that last well into adulthood. Obesity and the mental disorders they contribute to should be considered as serious as other medical illnesses. A study at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey found that obese girls ages 13 to 14 are four times more likely to experience low self-esteem than non-obese girls. The study also reported that obese boys and girls with low self-esteem have higher rates of loneliness, sadness and nervousness. These children are most likely to smoke…
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Gerrymandering When I thought of the topic Gerrymandering, I thought perhaps it would be too far-fetched when it came to the Rubric designed in a women studies class. But, on further review of the subject matter I realized how important this practice is to study, and how it can be used for both good and evil concepts in the political scheme of things. Gerrymandering is a form of boundary redistricting, in which the boundaries of an electoral district or constituency are modified for electoral…
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