Essays Tagged: "causes of death"

AIDS, "Generation x disease"

n X Disease' because itmostly affects my sex-oriented generation. It iscurrently one of the leading causes of death in theUSA and the death rate is increasing drastically! Itit the perfect virus of th ...

(2 pages) 52 0 4.4 Jan/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Persuasive essay on the merits of DDT.

Malaria or DDT: Which is the lesser evil?What would you expect to be some of the leading causes of death among some of the poorest countries of the world? Heart disease? Malnourishment? AID ...

(2 pages) 152 0 2.4 Nov/2002

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Colon cancer (colorectal cancer) what is cancer? what is colon cancer... symptoms, treatments, preventions

rWhen cells multiply without control, the disease cancer is developed. Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the world. Usually, cells grow and divide only when the body needs them to help k ... , lymphatic, and urinary systems.Colon cancer- colorectal cancer- is the second leading cancer that causes death in the United States. People over fifty are more likely to develop colon cancer. Anyone ...

(2 pages) 117 0 2.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Science Essays > Biology

Drinking and Driving teen facts!

Use of alcohol and other drugs is associated with the leading causes of death and injury among teenagers and young adults. Nationally, nearly 8,800 drinking drive ...

(2 pages) 147 0 4.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Drug Abuse

Nowadays drugs are one of the leading causes of death among humanism, especially teenagers. Drug is any substance other than food, intende ... e skin, or injected into a vein to get the maximum 'rush'. The unavailability of legal drug sources causes addicts to turn to the black market, where the prices they pay are as much as fifty times hig ...

(5 pages) 170 2 2.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues > Drugs & Alchohol

Drugs and their consequence.

Nowadays drugs are one of the leading causes of death among humanism, especially teenagers. Drug is any substance otherthan food, intended ... he skin, or injected into a vein to get the maximum 'rush'. Theunavailability of legal drug sources causes addicts to turn to the black market, where the prices they pay are as much asfifty times high ...

(4 pages) 79 0 3.8 Mar/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

Durkheim's study of suicide rates and the social facts that affect societies and individuals within those societies

f SuicideDurkheim's book 'Suicide: A study in sociology', published in 1897 defines suicide as "all causes of death resulting directly or indirectly from a positive or negative act of the victim himse ... e are obviously other factors that lead to people undertaking similar actions. Secondly, individual causes that explain why a particular individual commits suicide, such as heredity, 'cosmic' or envir ...

(9 pages) 221 1 4.5 May/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Political Science > Political Theory

Intro to Pyschology mid term. Work Related Stress -- what it is and to combat it.

n office visits are for stress-related ailments and complaints; stress is linked to the six leading causes of death--heart disease, cancer, lung ailments, accidents, cirrhosis of the liver, and suicid ...

(7 pages) 241 2 4.7 Sep/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Banning Cigarettes in Public Places

have been trying to put and end to cigarettes. Cigarette smoke is one of the top three preventable causes of death among Americans. Not only are the people who smoke affected by its dangers, but also ...

(11 pages) 231 1 4.6 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Drugs

The benefits of cloning

s. Disease takes more lives than any other cause with heart disease and cancer being the number one causes of death in the United States. Children are diagnosed and born with birth defects, which inhi ... t are defective or have stopped working. Eliminating both heart disease and cancer, the two biggest causes of death. Helping to insure children are born without horrible and sometimes lethal birth def ...

(7 pages) 149 2 4.8 Mar/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Suicide and Teens

that it is known that"..Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the US; it is the 3rd leading causes of death for youth. Youths have the second highest rate of completed suicide: for every 100-2 ... extraneous parties involved need time to heal and understand the circumstances involving a suicide.CausesSuicide is an intentional self-inflicted act that ultimately ends in death. After a series of ...

(12 pages) 375 0 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology > Depression, Stress & Suicide

Health inequalities

nd in 1996. Over the last 25 years, there have been falls in death rates from a number of important causes of death, for example lung cancer (for men only), coronary heart disease and stroke. Life exp ... 5 per cent.These growing differences across the social spectrum were apparent for many of the major causes of death, including coronary heart disease, stroke, lung cancer and suicides among men, and r ...

(8 pages) 283 0 4.7 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Suicide: an Increase in Teens

that it is known that"..Suicide is the 11th leading cause of death in the US; it is the 3rd leading causes of death for youth. Youths have the second highest rate of completed suicide: for every 100-2 ... extraneous parties involved need time to heal and understand the circumstances involving a suicide.CausesSuicide is an intentional self-inflicted act that ultimately ends in death. After a series of ...

(11 pages) 207 3 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues

Tuberculosis

At one time in history tuberculosis was one of the main causes of death in the United States. It kills nearly two billion people a year, between 2000 and 20 ...

(2 pages) 67 1 4.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Science Essays

Tobbaco

TobaccoTobacco is one of the leading preventable causes of death in the United States. Nicotine, which is an alkaloid derived from the tobacco plant, ... adults. A study by Yousef Tzabi suggested that cigarette smoking during pregnancy may be one of the causes of hyperactivity and learning deficits in children. In a laboratory study with Sprague-Dawley ...

(5 pages) 49 1 3.0 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Strong drink is a greater menace to man kind than drugs? do you agree?

ese people see alcohol as a way out or their problems. Drinking and driving is also one of the main causes of death in our society. People have the will power to control the amount of alcohol consumed ...

(2 pages) 39 1 4.3 May/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Methods Of Capital Punishment

today. Crucifixion is a relatively inhumane way to execute someone and there are several different causes of death from crucifixion. The first common cause of death is blood loss. The accused is nail ... . Once the head is placed in the groove, the large and heavy blade is released and the weight alone causes the head to sever from the body causing instant death.Shown here is a photograph taken of a g ...

(10 pages) 70 2 4.4 May/2004

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law

Smoking is the major factor of CHD development in the world, and especially in Ukraine

Smoking is one of the major causes of many diseases in the world. Today it is the main factor affecting the development of Coron ... lopment of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) in Ukraine."Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is one of the main causes of death in Britain and in many other developed countries."(Advanced Biology for you 2000, by ... are Professionals From the Health care association). CHD, as I've already said, is one of the major causes of death in the world and especially in Ukraine. The main risk factor in Ukraine is smoking w ...

(4 pages) 36 0 4.6 Jun/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

CAR ACCIDENTS U.A.E VERSUS U.K

unfortunately, cars have become more dangerous because of accidents. In fact it is one of the main causes of death in many countries around the world such as the U.A.E and the U.K.The problem of car ... .K.* In 2003Also car accidents in the U.A.E can be compared with the U.K in that they have the same causes which are:1- Negligence driving the car or loss of attention.2- Speed, driving very fast is o ...

(2 pages) 43 0 4.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Social Science Essays

The Holocaust along with the book Night by Elie Wiesel. Describes the psychological changes in victims.

he years that the Holocaust took place were from 1939-1945 (McCarthy). There were several different causes of death during this time. Many babies were thrown in the air and shot while older persons ha ...

(3 pages) 57 2 3.5 Jul/2004

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > World War II