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Tiny Home Communities: Alternative Solutions to Addressing Homelessness
Homelessness is decreasing nationally, but populations experiencing homelessness in certain states and unsheltered homelessness both increasing. Also, chronic homelessness still makes up large part of populations experiencing ...
Disaster Aid in Pakistan: An Opportunity for Maternal and Child Health Reform
This paper first examines the health concerns in Pakistan before and after the 2010 flooding and then proposes a model for meeting Pakistan's most severe health needs. The model emphasizes supporting the goals and requirements ...
Massacre of the Millenium? A Study of the AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa
. . . With 95% of HIV-infected people living in developing countries, AIDS has become a "disease of Third World poverty rather than First World affluence."
No one knows what AIDS will do to the economy and people's quality ...
Health Inequality in the Andes: An Ethnicity-Centered Approach
In summary, there exists a significant body of work on health inequalities in the Andes. However, much of this literature provides somewhat fragmented pieces of a complex whole with respect to the production of health ...
Efficacy of Aid in Africa: Why it has Failed and How it can be Fixed
Amani Children's Village serves as an example of the flaws in the charitable aid system in which money flows directly to an organization through donations in the classic NGO format. The difficulties seen in terms of Amani, ...
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 ...
Analysis of Women's Reproductive Health Care and Prenatal Care in Rural Virginia, A Community Based Research Project
Throughout my undergraduate career I have strived to understand the intersection between poverty and health care. As a pre-medical student, I have sought to comprehend what it means to be a physician and how it requires a ...