The number of applicants to the University of California (UC) declining to position their race has nearly doubled since Proposition 209, the constitutional amendment banning race preferences, took effect. . ... This initiative would limit health care providers" ability to understand health conditions that affect populations differently and to design effective targeted. ... Approximately 44% of our patient population has a primary language other than English, and almost 70% are from communities of color. ... Annual population data compiled by the California Department of Finance is used to cal...

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We hear on the news how health care providers are incapable of providing medical care to an increasingly number of chronically ill and the aging population. ... There are simply not enough physicians to service the population's needs. ... Between 1960 and 1980, the enrollment at medical schools doubled. ... Others have suggested that the growth in the national income and population between 1980 and 2000 increased patients' demands for physicians services, while the increase of female physicians reduced the supply of physician services due to their reduced schedules. ...

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(Gornick 2000) In England, the infant mortality rate in the lowest socioeconomic class is double that of the highest class. ... Fuchs (1998) notes that in any one year, 5% of the population accounts for more than 50% of all health expenditures. ... The increasing age of the population provides several challenges to the health care system. ... The notion that denial of care or benefits can be justified for the common good underlies much of the current utilitarian calculus of managed care, population-based medicine. ...

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Alzheimer's Disease is relentlessly destroying the brains and lives of our nation's older adults, robbing them of memory, the ability to reason, and affecting their emotions and behavior. Alzheimer's Disease is a degenerative disorder of the brain. The longer we live the greater the risk; "nearly 10 percent of all people over age 65 and up to half of those over age 85 are thought to have Alzheimer's Disease or another form of dementia" (Anonymous, 2002). The devastation of Alzheimer's Disease affects millions of families in the United States. Alzheimer's Disease c...

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Wearing long black trench coats each boy stormed the high school with a 9-mm semi-automatic and a 12-gauge double barrel sawed-off shotgun (Larkin, 2007). ... Denver is viewed as one of the most aggressively religious cities and it has the largest population of Christian evangelicals in the country (Larkin, 2007). ...

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-From the 2010 Census, Matteson's population is 19,008. 76.0 % Black, 19.7 % White, 1.1 % Asian, 3.6 % Latino/Hispanic. ... Matteson community needs more to be able to take care of its growing population. ...

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