Demographic Analysis Sample

The Health status of an individual could be defined as someone watching another and collecting data about a person and based on the information that were collected. Health status of an entire population would be to consider the health of a population, their life span, the extensiveness of preventable diseases or deaths and the availability of their health status (National Center for Health Statistics). The prevalent health situation of Hispanics are Diabetes, Heart diseases, stroke, liver diseases, cancer asthma, obesity and tobacco use. Heart disease is the main cause of death among all ethnic groups in the United States. Obesity and smoking being are of the risk factors for developing hypertension. Hispanic whites have higher rates of diabetes and obesity, whereas non-Hispanic whites have a

Although the United States is a leader in healthcare innovation and spends more money on health care than any other industrialized nation, not all people in the United State benefit equally from this progress as a health care disparity exists between racial and ethnic minorities and white Americans. Health care disparity is defined as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social or economic disadvantage…adversely affecting groups of people who have systematically experienced greater social and/or economic obstacles to health and/or clean environment based on their racial or ethnic group; religion; socioeconomic status; gender; age; mental health; cognitive, sensory or physical disability; sexual orientation or gender identity; geographic location; or other characteristics historically linked to discrimination or exclusion” (National Partnership for Action to End Health Disparities [NPAEHD], 2011, p. 3). Overwhelming evidence shows that racial and ethnic minorities receive inferior quality health care compared to white Americans, and multiple factors contribute to these disparities, including geography, lack of access to adequate health coverage, communication difficulties between patients and providers, cultural barriers, and lack of access to providers (American College of Physicians,

The Hispanic community is the largest minority in the USA and the fastest growing, It is also one with a high incidence of preventable diseases such as diabetes, periodontitis, colorectal cancer and HIV. Obesity and teenage pregnancy are significantly more prevalent in Hispanic population as well. (Crowie, 1989) Reasons for this discrepancy are many and varied, so different and varied approaches will be needed. Addressing their health care makes good public health and economic sense.

How Can These Challenges Be Addressed. The changing of disability rates, the size of the economy and efforts at privatization may affect how much of an economic burden these programs will impose in the future. As a result, household financial wealth in the world's major economies will be roughly $31 trillion lower in 20 years than it would have been if historical demographic trends had persisted. Raising the retirement age, easing restrictions on immigration, encouraging families to have more children, and achieving faster economic growth will have little impact on this shortfall. To fill it, households and governments will have to increase their savings rates and national economies will have to allocate capital more efficiently, thereby boosting returns (Farrell, 2005).

Hispanic Americans are considered the leading ethnic minority in the United States of America composing 17.4% or 55.4 million of the national population with calculations proposing an increase to 28.6% or 119 million by 2060 (Velasco-Mondragon, Jimenez, Palladino-Davis, Davis, & Escamilla-Cejudo, 2016). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (2015), Hispanic Americans primarily suffer from chronic diseases processes that primarily stem from obesity and uncontrolled high blood pressure that can lead to heart disease and cancer that as a result affect other organs. A study by Kim-Godwin & McMurry

For men, preventive care should be focused on cessation of smoking and alcohol using and diet for men. Males in this target group told me that they work long hours on physically demanding jobs each day, but their diet is unhealthy because of financial issues and they smoke and drink a lot because of great pressure on them. Men who were checked had generally high blood pressure and BMI. For women in this population, they told me they spent much time at home taking care of their children and purchase cheap fast food. Their blood pressure and BMI both were also very high. I asked them whether they purchased health insurance, but many of them just slipped away or did not want to tell me, but some of them did have interest in free clinical service. Many of them told me that they like spicy food and Cola, so for them, they should be encouraged to cook healthy food with low sodium and more vegetables, eat less fast food and maintain regular exercise everyday. For those men who smoke or drink a lot, they need to be encouraged to cut down on them as soon as possible. According to the research of Otiniano et al. (2003), Mexican Americans were reported to have a greater incidence of heart attack related to high blood pressure and obesity, but had a decreased prevalence of self-reported heart attack than Non-Hispanic whites due to the low socioeconomic status and less education. It seems that low socioeconomic status and less education are the major

Responding to the high risk of hypertension among the Hispanics requires certain changes in lifestyle to keep them safe. The lifestyle changes have been confirmed to reduce the chances of developing complications related to hypertension but Hispanics are faced with a number of hurdles which makes it hard for them to fully utilize these changes. Some of the major reasons making it hard for Hispanics to adopt lifestyle changes are; lack of suitable transport services to enable them access health care, language barriers when communicating with others and lack of the required health insurance coverage. Due to these factors, early diagnosis of the condition is not possible in this population and most of them will end up suffering the later consequences which are in most cases severe ("Hispanics and Heart Disease, Stroke", 2016).

In order to best describe the cultural landscape of Stafford County and Fredericksburg city, one must analyze the historical conditions that shaped the modern landscape, which will provide insight into present-day demographics as well as future projections. Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, settlements in Virginia rapidly spread westward from the Tidewater Region. Navigable rivers provided the means of movement, as settlers sailed into the Piedmont. While large plantations were initially established in a dispersed and decentralized pattern, several towns of small size began to prosper as sites of tobacco shipment inspection. The exploration of the Rappahannock River dates to 1608, when Captain John Smith visited the falls and encountered indigenous Native

Some African American, especially those in low resource communities, do not know how routine visit to the doctor and taking their medication on a regular basis can be beneficial to their health. Missing appointment are often time associated with increased risk of hospitalization. By missing appointment, doctor are not able to provide the proper care to their patient, which is often time result in poor control of chronic illness, hospitalization and sometime death if proper medical care is not given in time. Often time African American in low resource community have a hard achieving normal blood pressure as appose to other ethnic group. Even though several intervention programs are set in place to improve appointment adherence, many individual still missed schedule appointment, which remain a problem because proper healthcare and treatment is not given. Many individual does not know about the importance of appointment adherence, but despite its importance, not much information or data exist about the risk factors associated with non-adherence among hypertensive African American. “Therefore, to fill this gap, this study examined factors associated with patient-reported appointment adherence among African-Americans with severe, poorly controlled hypertension, using data from the Inner City Hypertension and Body Organ Damage (ICHABOD) - a cross-sectional survey of urban African-Americans hospitalized with severe, poorly controlled

Patients were adults age 18+ with hypertension who visited Cooper Green Mercy Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama from 2007-2010 (Elder et al., 2012).The sample size for this study was 993 patients categorized as: 820 African Americans (585 African American females and 235 African American males) and 173 Whites (111 White females and 62 White males) (2012). 235 African American men were ultimately used for this study based on a need for gender-specific research concerning perceptions and improvement of healthcare (2012). While a sample size of 235 African American males is a decent size, there could be issues within the distribution. Approximately 68% of the men were not married, 52% had some college, and 44% has incomes between $5000 and $15999 (2012). Socioeconomic status and marital status can have an effect on medication adherence. For example, in a study by Wu and colleagues, medication adherence mediated the relationship between marital status and event-free survival, pointing to a potential relationship between persons following medical advice and having a spouse or partner (2012). Geographic location may also be associated with trust and perceived racism, given the history of medical malpractice against minorities in the South so this study could only be generalized to Southern African American men.

Marshall County Schools are located in Marshall County, Alabama. The county is surrounded by Madison and Jackson Counties to the north, Morgan County to the west, Cullman, Blount, and Etowah Counties to the south, and DeKalb County to the east. The majority of the schools are found in heavily populated rural areas. Marshall County is unique due to the fact that there are four city school districts in addition to the Marshall County School System. This poses a challenge concerning funding within the county. This is due to the fact that the city school systems are located in four of the largest cities within the county and compose approximately 90% of the tax base revenue for the county. Our county school system is made up of primarily rural communities that lack a viable tax base. This combined with the fact the Marshall County has such a high poverty rate in general (currently slightly above 81%) has left the county school system with little in regards to a local feasible and workable revenue source.

Part I: According to a 2013 census of Hot Springs, Arkansas, the demographics compared to San Diego City, California varied substantially. In education, 84.1% of people were a high school graduate or higher, while in San Diego City it was 87%. Kindergarteners in public school in Hot Springs were up to 97.6% in public schools and 2.4% in private schools, while San Diego City’s public school was only 90.5% and private school was 9.5%. Financial Characteristics on household incomes of $75,000-$99,000 of owned houses in Hot Springs was 9.7% and rent owned houses were 3.5% while San Diego’s percentage of owned houses was a whopping 14.1% and rented ones were 12.0%. Overall

The overall contents of non-interventional research articles are to be able to recognize and understand specific problems in the studies. In this descriptive study, the research problem is to examine the baseline CHD knowledge and risk factors among Filipino-Americans that are connected to primary care services. CHD is one of the leading causes of death in United States especially the Filipinos-Americans that are residing in Las Vegas, Nevada. The researcher for this study was able to identify that FA residing in Las Vegas lack knowledge of CHD risk factors.

Moreover, nurses having perceptions that SUs with CEP are often aggressive, drug seeking and difficult to manage can be depicted as their overall judgmental attitudes towards this population group. Nurses with this type of negative, judgmental and stigmatizing attitudes fail to provide collaborative and optimal care for this population group. Moreover, nurses with this type of attitudes failed to create a good therapeutic relationship with SUs resulting in mistrust, disempowerment, poor health outcomes and avoidance of SUs to engage with services (Chu & Galang, 2013).

Approximately 1300 athletes from thirty-seven countries competed in Olympics game held in Los Angeles, in 1932. The games commenced on 30th July 1932 and came to an end on 14th August 1932. This participation was considered poor when compared to other Olympic games held before. The poor participation was due to the economic depression that was being experienced worldwide. This made it expensive for participants to travel all the way to California and back. For those who managed to attend, the Olympic village was located in Baldwin Hills, which covered 321 acres (Epting, 2002). All male athletes were hosed in 500 bungalows that had a direct access to a post office, kitchens that served various cuisines, hospitals, and a library. Female participants stayed in hotels down town Los Angeles. For the Los Angeles Coliseum,