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The Role of Race in the Heroin Epidemic
Opioid-related addiction has been propelled by opioid treatment within the healthcare system. The addictive nature of these drugs was underestimated, leading to opioid and heroin addiction in many patients who were treated ...
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 ...
Malaria as a Cause of Poverty: Poverty as a Contributor to Malaria
Malaria remains to be a huge problem in developing countries. We cannot ignore this problem as we try to eradicate global poverty. Malaria causes a downward spiral of poverty without effective interventions. It causes huge ...
Health Outcomes for Undocumented Children and Families in America: A Moral and Ethical Concern
The growing interest surrounding the estimated 11 million unaccounted, undocumented immigrants in America brings to light the issue not only from a governmental policy perspective, but also on a community level framework ...
Denying Medical Services to Undocumented Immigrants within the United States: Short-Sighted Policies with Disastrous Consequences
This paper will dispel myths about immigration, which become the reasons for the driving opposition against providing social services to immigrants. In addition, this paper will take a legal and human rights approach. It ...
MAPPing Healthcare of the Physically Disabled in Rockbridge County, VA: A Community Based Research Project
The following study was completed in conjunction with the Rockbridge Area Free Clinic's assessment of the access to and quality of health care for the disadvantaged residents of Rockbridge County, Virginia. The study was ...
The HIV/AIDS Epidemic and Poverty: A Human Perspective
The three countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Jamaica) bear testamony to the importance of the health system and provided real world examples of how the AIDS epidemic exploits a nation's shortcomings on a variety of ...
The Effects of Just Land Distribution on Public Health in Latin America
In this paper, I will illustrate how urban and rural land reforms each affect public health. The term "land reform" can take on a multitude of meanings, but for the purposes of this paper I have defined it as the redistribution ...
What's Passed is Prologue: The Affordable Care Act
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA or ACA), passed on March 23, 2010, is the most comprehensive U.S. healthcare reform legislature enacted since the passage of Medicaid and Medicare in 1965. The overarching ...
The TRIPS Agreement and the Human Right to Essential Medicines
Of course, patents are not the only, or even the primary, roadblocks to accessible medicine in developing nations. Over one-third of the world's population lacks access to the drugs on the WHO [World Health Organization] ...