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Hurdles to Health Behavior: External, Internal, or Somewhere In Between?
While the social gradient of health has been widely discussed for decades, less attention has been given to quantifying the influence of health behaviors, which include both illness and preventative behaviors exhibited by ...
Standardized Testing in a Non-Standardized World: The Unfairness of High-Stakes Standardized Testing and its Implications for English Language Learners in Texas
This paper aims to determine whether federally mandated standardized tests provide fair equality of opportunity for all students. To assess the effects of high-stakes testing, I researched the performance of English language ...
Justification for a Penny-Per-Ounce Excise Tax on Sugar Sweetened Beverages Under Two Ethical Frameworks
Increasingly obesity is becoming a greater problem in the United States. To curb this trend some policy makers have considered taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages (SSBs) which add unhealthy calories to the human diet. Some ...
The Ethics of CRISPR: What We Can Do vs. What We Should Do
This research has two components. First, an extensive review of the primary and secondary literature on CRISPR [Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats] takes place. To begin speculating on the normative ...
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 ...