Browsing by Subject "Public health"
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Analysis of Women's Reproductive Health Care and Prenatal Care in Rural Virginia, A Community Based Research Project
Throughout my undergraduate career I have strived to understand the intersection between poverty and health care. As a pre-medical student, I have sought to comprehend what it means to be a physician and how it requires a ... -
Chronic Stress as a Mediator for the Relationship Between Low-Socioeconomic Status and Poor Health Outcomes
The state of American health is alarming. How do we spend so much money even though a large number of us are in poor health and lack access to proper care? My paper will examine the root of this problem. It is important ... -
Community Health Centers: A Vital and Stable Provider of Health Services to the Poor and Underserved
Following an overview of community health centers, including more information about patients served, costs, and services provided, this study will examine the benefits of and threats to the community health center system, ... -
The Consequences of Post-Incarceration Reentry on Well-Being
This paper will carefully consider the ways in which the role of mass incarceration perpetuates the afflictions of poverty for former offenders, further applying these conclusions to the unique barriers that arise within ... -
Cracking Down on the Down and Out: The Criminalization of Homelessness
The legislation that this paper examines bars them [homeless persons] from fulfilling basic needs. This paper considers what sorts of legislation criminalizes homelessness, discusses the moral and legal implications of ... -
Denying Medical Services to Undocumented Immigrants within the United States: Short-Sighted Policies with Disastrous Consequences
This paper will dispel myths about immigration, which become the reasons for the driving opposition against providing social services to immigrants. In addition, this paper will take a legal and human rights approach. It ... -
Disaster Aid in Pakistan: An Opportunity for Maternal and Child Health Reform
This paper first examines the health concerns in Pakistan before and after the 2010 flooding and then proposes a model for meeting Pakistan's most severe health needs. The model emphasizes supporting the goals and requirements ... -
The Effects of Just Land Distribution on Public Health in Latin America
In this paper, I will illustrate how urban and rural land reforms each affect public health. The term "land reform" can take on a multitude of meanings, but for the purposes of this paper I have defined it as the redistribution ... -
Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed
Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ... -
Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach
In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ... -
Health Outcomes for Undocumented Children and Families in America: A Moral and Ethical Concern
The growing interest surrounding the estimated 11 million unaccounted, undocumented immigrants in America brings to light the issue not only from a governmental policy perspective, but also on a community level framework ... -
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Poverty: A Human Perspective
The three countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Jamaica) bear testamony to the importance of the health system and provided real world examples of how the AIDS epidemic exploits a nation's shortcomings on a variety of ... -
Homelessness and Emergency Medicine: How to Address Health Inequities and Provide Effective, Dignified Care for Patients Experiencing Homelessness
The portrait of emergency department (ED) use among people experiencing homelessness is a bleak one, worsened by biases, resource unavailability and other barriers to adequate healthcare which vulnerable populations ... -
The Lines That Define Us: Racial Residential Segregation and Health Disparities for African Americans
This capstone explored the mechanisms underlying the relationship between racial residential segregation and health disparities for African Americans. This relationship was examined through the analysis of how racial ... -
Malaria as a Cause of Poverty: Poverty as a Contributor to Malaria
Malaria remains to be a huge problem in developing countries. We cannot ignore this problem as we try to eradicate global poverty. Malaria causes a downward spiral of poverty without effective interventions. It causes huge ... -
MAPPing Healthcare of the Physically Disabled in Rockbridge County, VA: A Community Based Research Project
The following study was completed in conjunction with the Rockbridge Area Free Clinic's assessment of the access to and quality of health care for the disadvantaged residents of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The study was ... -
Massacre of the Millenium? A Study of the AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
. . . With 95% of HIV-infected people living in developing countries, AIDS has become a "disease of Third World poverty rather than First World affluence." No one knows what AIDS will do to the economy and people's quality ... -
Menstrual Mismanagement: An Economic Synthesis of Period Poverty and its Overlapping Facets in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Existing literature splits experiences of menstrual poverty across hardware and software deprivation lines. . . . This paper will focus on both facets of period poverty specifically in low- and middle-income countries. ... -
The Moral and Ethical Implications of Framing Global Health as a Security Concern
While the securitization of health results in positive short-term outcomes such as resource allocation, this framing neglects individuals' human rights. Therefore, in order to prioritize the health of all, the security ... -
Nutrition Effects on Health and Recidivism in the American Prison Complex
If food in prison was made more nutritious, would health outcomes improve, and recidivism be reduced? Using the Virginia State Department of corrections as my population, I explore this question in three parts; the existing ...