She then brings up a statistic that 25 percent of the children under 15 represent total court cases. With this statistic we begin to ask ourselves as the audience what percent actually accounts for tweens alone. To go along behavioral changes she brings up topics of suicide, sex, eating disorders, drugs, and alcohol. Sex among tweens is increasing and Hymowitz again brings up before the age of 15. Hymowitz explains that even though numbers of suicide remain small, it has more than doubled in the last thirty years.
"Our main objective now is to have more women investors because that will have a trickle-down effect. There are a lot of smart businesswomen out there." According to the Center of Women's Business Research, as of 2006, there were an estimated 7.7 million majority women-owned companies, accounting for 29.7% of all businesses in the U.S. Those companies generate $1.1 trillion in annual sales and employ 7.2 million people nationwide. Yet a separate study conducted by venture capital industry tracker VentureSource showed that only 4.3% of venture-backed companies are led by women, down from 7.5% in 2002. Women-led angel groups are trying to improve that statistic.
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).
Vulnerable Populations - Part II A vulnerable population is a group that has a high incident of health care disparities and difficulties accessing the health care system because of cultural, socioeconomic, language barriers, and educational background. The Hispanic population is the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States. This group makes up 15% of the United States population and it is predicted that this percentage will double by 2050 (Kaiser Foundation, 2010). In the Hispanic population, the Hispanic or Latino woman, ages 18 to 35 years of age with little to no income, and a high school diploma or less, is apt to possessing a high incidence of health care disparities. Hispanic women are at risk for not receiving the necessary medical care due to the lack of health insurance coverage and knowledge of services available to address their health care needs.
It is not an issue that is only for one race, sex or nationality of people; it does not discriminate. But the high numbers of children that are obese are in certain nationality or race of people. In article titled, “The Crisis of Childhood Obesity: What You Can Do?”, written by Dr. Tiffany C. Rush-Wilson, she writes about this major issue and how it has taken a huge growth over the past two decades. In her findings she reports that over the last two decades the number of children and teens with obesity (ages two to eighteen) increased nearly 300%, with the number of overweight African-American and Hispanic/Latino children increasing dramatically and disproportionately. In this group there are nearly one-fourth of children that are overweight (www.cdc.gov).
Demographics Increase in population: fueled by a steady birthrate, greater longevity and explosive immigration, the nation's population increased by more people in the 1990s than any other 10-year period in U.S. History.More than 281-million people called America home in 2000, an increase of 13 percent, or nearly 32.7-million, from 1990. That easily surpassed the previous record growth of 28-million during the peak of the 1950s baby boom. The U.S. fertility rate held at about 2 children per adult woman. Immigration, mainly from Asia, the Caribbean and South America, accounted for at least one-third of the population increase, Long said, and increased longevity much of the rest. The impact of immigration, because it includes undocumented illegal immigrants States: For the only time in the 20th century, the population of all 50 states increased, ranging from a tiny half-percent rise in North Dakota to the booming 66 percent in Nevada.
Mandatory Birth Control for Teenagers… Who’s Choice Should It Be? Troyslen Dixon Medical Careers University In 2006, there were 4,265,555 births in the United States according to the National Center for Health Statistics (Bartlett, 2009). There have been intense debates for years about mandating birth control for women on welfare. Considering that nearly 750,000 teens become pregnant every year suggest that we should look at reproductive capabilities of teenagers (Bartlett, 2009). Teenagers that make unwise decisions and become pregnant put an emotional and financial strain on their parents and the government.
Every country, racial, ethnic, and religious group has been affected by teen pregnancy. In the United States alone, 4 out of 10 girls will get pregnant by the age of 20 which equals out to about one million girls each year. These statistics alone have caused the United States to be higher than those of
Vulnerable populations include the working poor, racial and ethnic minorities, the uninsured, children, the elderly, the homeless, those chronic health conditions, including HIV/AIDS, not to mention severe mental illness. It may also include rural residents, who often encounter barriers to accessing healthcare services. The vulnerability of these individuals is enhanced by race, ethnicity, age, sex, and factors such as income, lack of insurance coverage. Their health and healthcare problems overlap with social factors, including inadequate housing, poverty, and poor education. According to a Department of Justice report, prisoners enter the system and bring with them “infectious diseases from underprivileged home environments that are breeding grounds for HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and tuberculosis, the three most prevalent communicable diseases in America’s prisons today.” There is a misunderstanding that when a person commits a crime and goes to prison, he or she surrenders all rights.
Research shows that teens are more sexually active now than before. For example, twenty-five percent of all girls and thirty-three percent of all boys have had sex by the age of fifteen. This is a very young age, and by age seventeen the statistics have grown to 75% of all girls and eighty-six percent of all boys. This shows that there is greater need for sex education than ever before. Starting as early as kindergarten, children should be taught about relationships and to respect others.