Community Health Practice Aline Prosper HAT 1 November 2, 2012 Western Governor University Community Health Practice The community we are introducing today is the people living around McGuire Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Richmond Virginia. A decade ago, African-American and European-American populated Southside Richmond only. Southside Richmond, like the whole state, is experiencing increasing racial diversity with the rapid growth of Hispanic and Asian populations. African-American
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Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan 18, Institutional Area, Shaheed Jeet Singh Marg, New Delhi - 110 602. SUPPORT MATERIAL YEAR 2012-13 SUPPORT MATERIAL CLASS X – Social Science Chief Patron Shri Avinash Dikshit Commissioner KVS, New Delhi Patron Shri J.M Rawat Deputy Commissioner KVS, Jaipur Region
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Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of economic growth in which resource use aims to meet human needs while preserving theenvironment so that these needs can be met not only in the present, but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF-Environment, Local people, Future[citation needed]). The term 'sustainable development' was used by the Brundtland Commission which coined what has become the most often-quoted definition of sustainable development as development that "meets the needs
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Petrochemicals and their byproducts, such as dioxin, are known to cause an array of serious health problems, including cancers and endocrine disruption. Of the more than 75,000 chemicals registered with the Environmental Protection Agency, only a fraction have gone through complete testing to find out whether they might cause problems for human health. Many that are produced in enormous quantities have never been tested at all. Usually, it takes dramatic episodes of workplace injuries or wildlife
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that are based in wealthy countries. This is used due to the example of Coca-Cola (a multinational corporation from the west) abusing India’s water supply in villages to make their products because of the capitalist system of minimizing production costs without governmental interference (as India is quite high in terms of corruption) and the pollution it created. This situation got so problematic that India had to shut down the factories that produce the product, which may end up hurting their
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Being a Health Care Management Major, the product I chose to introduce internationally is related to the medial field. Anyone who lives in the world today knows that technology is becoming a way of life. It seems that no one goes anywhere without their smart phone in their pocket and a GPS in their car. A field that has been completely changed by advances in technology is the medical field. No longer due doctors take ones temperature or blood pressure manually, they have special devices that
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Mangroves are ever green forests between land and sea, found essentially in the intertidal zone and occupying large tracts along the shallow coasts, estuaries and in the deltas where they are influenced by tides, widely differing conditions of saline and rainfall regimes. The coastline of Pakistan is 1,050 km long and 40-50 km wide shared by the provinces of Sindh (350 km) and Balochistan (700 km). In the Sindh province, mangroves are found in the Indus Delta which occupies approximately 600,000
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Environmental Science 5. Tropical forests represent a large reservoir of underutilized timber. Why is it ecologically unsound to harvest most tropical forests? What are the potential long-term effects of deforestation in the tropics? Harvesting our Earth’s tropical forests is very ecologically unsound in many ways. These forests are being harvested and clear-cut in staggering rates and even if we begin taking necessary actions as a whole, worldwide, immediately we still may never get these
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Garas, Dianne Katrina G. 2014-2680 Paras, Michael S. 2014-62622 Raymundo, Chezqah O. 2014-32989 Position Paper November 28, 2014 Implementation of Disaster Risk Reduction Management: Enhancing the Resiliency of the Filipino People Multiple choices are everybody’s favorite. Since natural disasters are already altering the way each Filipino live, every member of the society has the obligation of making a crucial decision whether: to act cooperatively now to address the problem, to prefer
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A hydroelectric project demands a very complex creation of turbines and a source of running water that obviously rivers that possesses of significant strength to drive the power generators. Solar, on the other hand, requires only a very simple items and equipments, one of which is the photovoltaic generation cell that will provide electricity.
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