Essays on Public Health Issues

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Learning Benefits of Ipad for Children with Special Needs

3 pages / 1238 words

Understanding the Challenges Faced by Students with Special Needs I’m sure you can imagine or know from personal experience how hard school can be sometimes for students, but can you imagine how hard it is for a student with special needs? There are many different...

Children and Technology Children With Disabilities

382

Tourette's Syndrome - The Symptoms, Treatment, Epidemiology and Genetic Basis

4 pages / 1950 words

Description of the Area Tourette’s Syndrome is a tic disorder that is characterized by the presence of more than one motor tic, and one or more vocal tics for a period more than a year that causes impairment or distress to the patient. (McGuire, Piacentini,...

Epidemiology

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Understanding The Signs, Epidemiology and Risk Factors of Strokes

7 pages / 3347 words

Stroke Stroke occurs when an artery supplying blood to the brain either suddenly becomes blocked or begins to bleed. This may result in part of the brain dying, leading to a sudden impairment that can affect a range of activities such as speaking, thinking, movement...

Epidemiology

384

The Reasons Why Expensive Gadgets Are Overshadowing Basic Needs

8 pages / 3492 words

According to the State of World (2004) report, China, UK and Western Europeans have had a bar on untenable over- consumption for decades. Roughly 1.7 billion people globally now fit in to the “consumer class” the group of people distinguished by diets of extremely processed...

Consumerism Gadgets Obesity

385

Investigating Causes of Drug Abuse /effects /intervention Strategies in Kenya

5 pages / 2094 words

A drug is any substance other than food that provides nutritional support that, when inhaled, injected, smoked, consumed, absorbed via a patch on the skin, or dissolved under the tongue causes a temporary physiological and often psychological change in the body. Made-to-order essay as fast...

Drug Addiction Heroin Kenya

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The Issue of Arguments Against Abortion and Abortion Trial in Adolescence

2 pages / 935 words

Conflict theorists emphasize that coercion; Change, domination and conflict in society are inevitable. The point of view of the conflict is based on the notion that society is composed of different groups that are constantly fighting each other for access to scarce and valuable resources;...

Abortion Teenage Pregnancy

387

Hiv/aids Pandemic and Women

2 pages / 711 words

Introduction Globally, women in different regions face similar issues on different scales of intensity. Prominent issues include how the HIV/AIDS pandemic affects women, including their disease status, along with the varying levels of household, economic, and social power they hold. When greater inequality exists between...

AIDS HIV

388

Social Status in The Tombstones and How Wealth and Long Life Are Connected

3 pages / 1542 words

Trends and Inequality in Longevity Throughout history, honoring the dead has been an important tradition, and one way to do so is by erecting headstones that are usually personalized. During the late 1800s through the early 1900s, life expectancy was much lower than it is...

Longevity

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Factors Resulting in Long Life

3 pages / 1551 words

A blue zone is defined as a particular area of the world with a high population of citizens living 100 years or more, and have come to represent areas of overall increased longevity. Loma Linda, California qualifies as a blue zone in part to its...

Longevity

390

How The Three Blue Zones Project and a Longer Life Are Related in Dan Buettner's Speech How to Live to Be 100+

3 pages / 1335 words

In Dan Buettner’s speech, “How to live to be 100 +”, he talks about specific ways to achieve life longevity and the myths that have been presented by many studies. In order to explain his theories about how to extend life expectancy, Dan uses, what...

Longevity

391

Personal Reflections on Narcotics Anonymous Meetings

7 pages / 3195 words

Self Help Group Meeting: Attend a self-help group meeting and provide a brief summary of the events. Critique the strengths and weaknesses of the process. How did the actual meeting compare to the theoretical concepts discussed in class? How does this resource fit into the...

Drug Addiction Drugs

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Researching The Effects of Drug Abuse in Society's Where Alcohol and Drugs Are Sold

2 pages / 1101 words

If I was in a position of power that allowed me to make changes to the community that would help the families of those who suffer from substance abuse, I would begin with research. There is substance abuse everywhere, but not everyone is willing to...

Alcohol Drug Addiction

393

Sexually Transmitted Infections and Its Prevention

5 pages / 2073 words

Abstract The research paper seeks to discuss sexually transmitted diseases. The article brings a broader explanation of what sexually transmitted diseases are, how they spread and the possible treatments. The study also presents the Specific examples of STDs with symptoms and the specific cure. Among...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Creating a Campaign Against Sexually Transmitted Infections

2 pages / 850 words

Introduction I will be creating an advertising campaign about sexually transmitted diseases (STIs) and the importance of condom use. The campaign will feature an image of a very beautiful young woman, aged 18 and above, looking seductively while holding a very expensive handbag that reads...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Studying Sexually Transmitted Diseases

7 pages / 2997 words

About STDs “STDs” (sexually transmitted diseases) is a broad term that refers to as many as 20 different sicknesses, all of them transmitted by sex – usually through the exchange of body fluids such as semen, vaginal fluid, and blood. STDs can also be given...

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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Rapid Diagnosis of Malaria: Problems with Rdts

4 pages / 1613 words

Cross-reactions with autoantibodies: Studies have reported cross reactivity of the various RDTs with autoantibodies such as rheumatoid factor, resulting in false positive tests for malaria. Studies in patients with positive rheumatoid factor have shown that the false positive reactions are higher with the PfHRP2 tests...

Malaria

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Delayed Newborn Bathing: Why It is Being Encouraged and Practiced in Hospitals

4 pages / 1599 words

Introduction Newborn bathing in the past has always been done immediately after a mother gives birth to her child and the reason being is mostly for hygienic purposes. However in recent studies, it has been discovered that delaying newborn bathing is very beneficial to the...

Children Hospital Hygiene

398

Sexually Transmitted Infections (sti)

1 page / 467 words

Candida or aerobic bacteria organisms like E. coli, staphylococcus aureus, and β- haemolytic streptococcus usually are the cause of vaginal discharge in women. Sexually transmitted infections (STI), bacterial vaginosis (BV), aerobic vaginitis and candidiasis are the infections of urogenital tract that affect women’s sexual health...

Sexual Health Sexually Transmitted Diseases

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A Boy Called Po - Story of a Boy with Autism

3 pages / 1365 words

This paper explores a film, A Boy Called Po, discussing the challenges Patrick, best known as Po, lives with the daily challenges of autism. Autism is a mental condition, present from early childhood, characterized by difficulty in communicating and forming relationships with other people and...

Autism Children With Disabilities Mental Health