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The Unexamined Link: Type II Diabetes and Poverty
. . . diabetes is considered to be the nation's fastest growing health problem. The impact is largely on those of low socioeconomic status (SES), who have less access to resources and healthcare. . . . Unfortunately, the ...
Cracking Down on the Down and Out: The Criminalization of Homelessness
The legislation that this paper examines bars them [homeless persons] from fulfilling basic needs. This paper considers what sorts of legislation criminalizes homelessness, discusses the moral and legal implications of ...
Hurdles to Health Behavior: External, Internal, or Somewhere In Between?
While the social gradient of health has been widely discussed for decades, less attention has been given to quantifying the influence of health behaviors, which include both illness and preventative behaviors exhibited by ...
Silenced and Stuck in Squalor: Roma's Right to Fair and Equal Opportunity to Speak
In December of 2010, local authorities evicted 56 Roma families to a dump in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Though nearly seven years have passed since local authorities moved families from the center of the city to the outskirts ...
Medicaid Eligibility and Accessibility: Exploring the Intersection of Poverty, Mental Health, and Incarceration from an Ethical Perspective
This paper will address the many facets of why Medicaid mental health resources should be expanded and enhanced for low-income individuals, specifically those recently released from incarceration. First, the connection ...
America's Food Crisis and Poverty: How U.S. Agricultural Policy Hurts the Poor the Most
The U.S. has reached a point where its partiality to commodity crops has created new demarcations of class. The rich produce cheap foods eaten by the poor, who are generally overweight. These foods are bad for health, and ...
RAMifications for Healthcare: Remote Area Medical and Healthcare Access in Rural Virginia
Remote Area Medical, a healthcare nonprofit based in Rockford, Tennessee, attempts to shore up health disparities experienced by rural Americans, "prevent[ing] pain and alleviat[ing] suffering by providing free, quality ...
Structural Isolation of the Poor in Urban America
In this paper, I explore the reasons for which concentrated poverty is a consequence of the social, political, and market mechanisms at work in urban America. I then highlight the negative effects that result from living ...
The Expansion of Tayssir CCT Program: Increasing Girls' Secondary Educational Attainment in Rural Morocco
This paper examines ways in which the conditional cash transfer program Tayssir can help increase girls' secondary school attainment in rural areas of Morocco. Currently, the Tayssir program only targets children at the ...
Flood Control and Poverty: Phillips County, AR and Guyana
Each year global estimates of homelessness, deaths, economic loss and other effects can be analyzed. Throughout these analyses, it is clear that the most vulnerable populations are the world's poorest communities. Structurally ...