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Trust me, I'm a Doctor: Evaluating the Factors that Lead to Social Mistrust in the United States Healthcare System
The United States has a long history of health inequality. . . . The disturbing aspect of this situation is that disparities in health are not exclusively determined by individual choices and actions. Instead, they are ...
Mitigating the Rural Brain Drain: A Redesign of Dual Enrollment
Students in rural high schools are routinely underperforming when compared to urban and suburban students. Dual enrollment programs, which allow high school students to simultaneously earn postsecondary credit, has been ...
Teaching Students to Talk Real Good: Language, Networks, and Justice
Standard American English (SAE) has emerged as the dominant language in traditional American marketplaces because of the affiliation of SAE with certain social groups. Many students in America, however, grow up in homes ...
Home is where the heart is: The Role of Voluntary Home Visitation Programs in Ensuring Fair Equality of Opportunity for Families
Children from low-income families come to the first day of kindergarten developmentally behind. While education policy has worked to mitigate this disparity, early education programs are not enough to promote true equality ...
Collateral Damage: Unintended Consequences of Urban Renewal in Baltimore, MD
It bears analyzing some of the commonly observed and advertised effects, both positive and negative, of urban renewal in general, and their particular realization in Baltimore. What follows is an analysis of urban renewal's ...
Apartheid Resurrected: How American Incarceration Policies Wage War On Poor African American Communities
Clearly, determinate sentencing policies which are disproportionate in their application, resulting in increased incarceration of a specific minority group, fail to fulfill the objectives of a fair and just criminal justice ...
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 ...
The Power of ZIP Codes: Segregation in Southern California, Reexamined
The ultimate aim of this study is to explore and deconstruct the myriad causes which contribute to segregation's persistence, even when no longer mandated by law as it was only a few generations ago. Within the nation that ...
Stop Punishing the Victim: Decriminalization as an Alternative to Legalizing Prostitution
This paper discusses why legalizing prostitution is not the best approach to protecting prostitutes, specifically the poorest ones who enter prostitution only when faced with no other options. Decriminalization of selling ...
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 ...