In the more than 20 years since they have been saving extremely premature infants, with all the medical advanced technology the survival of very low birth weight babies. The National Center for Health statistics said that of the 3.9 million infants born in the United States in 1998, about 56,000 were considered very low birth weight. Of those about 16,647 were micro-preemies. With infants who were born weighing less than 1,000 grams or a little over 2 pounds were at a slightly higher risk for having cerebral palsy and slightly lower intelligence quotients than those of the same weight born in earlier decades. I feel like the author who wrote this is very persuasive on what she wrote about and with all of the evidence that was put into this essay was pretty much all hard evidence.
A case study is examined to illustrate possible approaches to care and personal reflections of the author will be shared regarding issues of teenage pregnancy. In 2009 almost 410,000 infants were born to United States teenage girls between the ages of 15 and 19. Nearly two-thirds of births to women younger than 18 and more than half of those among 18 and 19-year-olds were a result of unintended pregnancies (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2011). This represents a teen birth rate as much as nine times greater than other developed countries and is especially high among black and Hispanic teens in southern states (Vital signs: teen pregnancy, 2011). Those at highest risk of teen pregnancy are girls from single parent homes, families with low socioeconomic status, and girls with a sister who became pregnant as a teenager (Talashek, Alba, & Patel, 2006).
and 2003, the overall rate in Nevada With 19.1 suicides per 100,000 residents in 2000, Nevada rate was almost twice the National average of 10.7. Between 1993 and 2003, the overall rate in Nevada steadily declined from 25.8 to 18.5, but remained about twice the national
Underage Drinking Underage drinking mostly starts at the early ages of 11 to 14 years old. This has become one of the largest discussed issues and major problems in America because of the increase of deaths every year. According to the department of health and human services underage drinking has caused problems such as: public health and safety problems, potential brain damage issues, alcohol disorders, violence, suicides, sexual assault, rape and many car accidents. Underage drinking has become a very huge problem for teenagers where life and health are at great risk. In my point of view as sophomores in high school and as a member of the small community I live in I think that there should be other ways and more classes on underage drinking.
Incarcerations can also have a major impact on the community. Thus, this form of punishment can affect everyone around the punished women. Incarceration of women with children is a very large percentage that has a huge impact on their family. 1.3 million Women are convicted primarily on drug crimes. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world since 2000, and 52% are parents.
Challenges such as cancer, heart disease and cardiovascular illnesses can be extensive, some lasting even for years. Furthermore, the elderly are then faced with difficulty performing even basic tasks such as dressing, bathing and eating for themselves. As a result, these conditions often put the elderly in jeopardy for other psychological behaviors as well. A report by the Council on Scientific Affairs, American Medical Association (JAMA) (1996) outlines this in a compelling theory that in many cases, feelings of hopelessness, which most often will accompany alcoholism, may be more important than depression. Expert Dr. Y. D. Coble (1996) exemplifies this concept in a persuasive article written in (JAMA).
When a person is drunk, they can commit any kind of crime because they are not in their right mind at that particular moment but, the law doesn’t know if you are drunk or not and the law or punishment against sexual assault is high. The victims of rape or sexual assault are mostly women. “Sexual assault, including rape, occurs most commonly among women in the late adolescence and early childhood, usually within the context of a date’. In one survey, approximately 10percent of female of the high school students reported having being rape. Research suggests that alcohol use by the offender, the victims or both, increases the likelihood of sexual assault by a male acquaintance (NIAAA).
Peer pressure is among one of the most common reasons for college drinking. According to Scott Walters and John Baer, it is estimated that two out of five college students drink (pg 65-67). College drinking has an effect on not only the drinkers, but on their friends and classmates as well.
College Binge Drinking College is a time of discovery and learning. It is a time when students develop new ideas and form new habits. One of these habits is drinking binge drinking. College students in fact drink more than their peers who are not in college (Wechsler 987). Problems arising from college drinking have risen proportionally by 7% since 1998 (Hingson 15).
Webster New Explorer Dictionary defines binge drinking as an act of excessive Consumption of alcohol. Binge drinking can become deadly. As a result of binge drinking, an average of 1,400 college students between the