Essays Tagged: "Risk factor"

Juvenile Crime

tes is faced with is juvenile crime. The reason experts feel juvenile's commit crimes is because of risk factors when they were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's ... ey were younger but experts still have not found the main reason why juvenile's commit crimes. Some risk factors associated with juvenile crime are poverty, repeated exposure to violence, drugs, easy ...

(2 pages) 429 2 4.4 Mar/1997

Subjects: Law & Government Essays

Skin Cancer

ying in the sun without sunscreen or protective clothing (3., p 1). Sunburn is the most preventable risk factor of skin cancer. Skin type and family history cannot be changed. Protection from the sun ... Additionally, if there is a history of skin cancer in the family, an individual may be at a higher risk (1., p 1). Individuals who have experienced only one serious sunburn have increased their risk ...

(6 pages) 132 0 4.6 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Down syndrome

In 95 percent of all cases, the disorder originates with the egg, not the sperm, and the only known risk factor is advanced maternal age-at age 35, a woman has 1 chance in 117 of having a baby with Do ... ute, part of Eastern Virginia Medical School, hopes to try out the technique with a handful of high-risk couples who come to the institute for in-vitro fertilization, in the near future. (www #1)Event ...

(11 pages) 302 0 4.7 Mar/1997

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education

Leukemia

at exposure to electric magnetic fields, such as power lines and electric appliances, is a possible risk factor. More studies are needed to prove this link. Some genetic conditions, such as Down's syn ... rove this link. Some genetic conditions, such as Down's syndrome, are also believed to increase the risk factor. Exposure to some chemicals is also suspected to be a risk factor. By learning the cause ...

(3 pages) 66 0 3.7 Feb/1997

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

A critique of the article "Psychosocial evaluation and prediction of compliance problems and morbidity after heart transplantation", written by Shapiro et al.

ring selection criteria and screening procedures to establish which patients are within established risk factor limits to safely receive and benefit from heart transplantation surgery. Such screening ... ion surgery. Such screening is necessary due to fact that heart transplantation is an expensive and risky operation which requires the utilization of scarce resources and has limited life prolonging b ...

(7 pages) 126 0 3.0 Mar/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Information About Alzheimer's Disease.

urrounding and destroying brain cells. AD is actually quite random toward its victims. The greatest risk factor for the disease is age. Alois Alzheimer, a German physician, first discovered Alzheimer' ... statistics up to 4.5 million Americans suffer from AD. The disease usually begins after age 60, and risk goes up with age. While younger people also may get AD, it is much less common. About 3 percent ...

(4 pages) 105 0 3.7 Oct/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

This essay is about the common disease call hypertension.

vascular or kidney diseases, or endocrine tumors.Essential hypertension remains a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular disease (CVD) despite important advances in our understanding of its ... logy and the availability of effective treatment strategies. High blood pressure (BP) increases the risk of CVD for millions of people worldwide, and there is evidence that the problem is only getting ...

(4 pages) 176 1 4.3 Nov/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Dental health & access to dental health.

can severely affect people's ability to carry out the normal activities of daily life. It is also a risk factor for such major systemic diseases as coronary heart disease. The oral health of Americans ...

(13 pages) 169 0 3.7 Mar/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Physical Activity and Cardiovascular Health

s, accounting for over 42 percent of all deaths. The lack of physical activity is now shown to be a risk factor for heart disease. Estimates are that up to 250,000 deaths per year in the U.S., about 1 ... .S., about 12 percent of total deaths, are due to a lack of regular physical activity. The relative risk of coronary heart disease associated with physical inactivity ranges from 1.5 to 2.4, an increa ...

(1 pages) 29 0 1.5 Nov/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine

Stress; 10 ways to Reduce Commuting Stress

od of having a heart attack due to exposure to high levels of air pollutants, which appears to be a risk factor for heart disease.Although there is no antidote to stressful commuting, there are lots o ...

(4 pages) 65 0 5.0 Aug/2005

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Children and Advertising/Marketing

commercials can affect young children in our society. Many of these children have had at least one risk factor for heart disease and have also developed type two diabetes.Patricia also mentioned how ...

(2 pages) 56 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Application of the C.A.P.M. on NYSE & NASDAQ Stocks: Toyota in NYSE

find the expected return of a stock, such as is demanded in this case. The C.A.P.M. consists of the risk-free rate, the beta of the stock (the risk factor of the stock) and the expected return of the ... situation. In this case, the expected return of Toyota is being analyzed.AnalysisStarting from the risk free rate, we have the rate at which one can invest in an investment with no risk. Of course, t ...

(2 pages) 118 0 5.0 Apr/2006

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics > Rates & Indexes

Risk Factors of Cardiovascular Disease

How is it a risk factor?Lack of ExercisePeople who are aerobically fit have larger, strong hearts with clearer a ...

(1 pages) 66 0 4.0 Nov/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Alcohol benefits

cently in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology that one drink a day can help lower the risk of heart disease. But when consumption surpasses two drinks a day, risks increase for some kind ... at Dallas say before you start drinking for your health, talk to your doctor. For some people, the risks of alcohol outweigh the benefits. And remember that while one drink a day can be helpful, more ...

(2 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

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

Heroin Trials

easing level of property crime and robbery cost to the community.Injecting drug users have a higher risk of of contracting blood-borne disease through unhygienic injecting practices. 60 to 70 percent ... least one blood-borne disease. Diseases such as HIV, AIDS, Hepatitis A, and Hepatitis C are a major risk factor with unhygienic injecting. 11,000 Australians become infected each year with Hepatitis C ...

(5 pages) 10 0 0.0 Feb/2008

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

Combining Treatments in Psychiatric Illness

ients per GP list, but says that 50% of these patients may be unrecognized. 1 Depression is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. 2 In addition, patients with depression are much likely to d ...

(3 pages) 16 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Psychology

Globalization – Opening Retail Outlets

nces• Failure by ABC to sufficiently predict consumers demands and sales quantity• Supply risk• Lack of ability to acquire preferred pricing boundaries and profitability because of manu ... elated to its global restructuring efforts." (Reebok International Ltd., 2000)This documentation of risk concerns is not in-depth. Certain aspects that could influence ABC's authentic outcome consist ...

(7 pages) 60 0 3.0 Apr/2008

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Economics

Project Risk Management

rse failure has to be mentioned in this report, if a project is planned correctly however, then the risk of failure diminishes, therefore an actual plan is vital to success. The plan has to be a forma ... pproved document used to guide both project execution and project control. In project terms what is risk? To cite Portny he says that `you may not achieve your product schedule or resource targets b ...

(11 pages) 139 1 0.0 Jun/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers

Obesity

nadians who are overweight or obese has increased dramatically over the past 25 years. Obesity is a risk factor in a number of chronic diseases. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is important ... a number of chronic diseases. Achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is important to reduce the risk of those diseases and improve overall health." (http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/iyh-vsv/life-vie/obes_e. ...

(7 pages) 93 0 4.7 Jun/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

An essay on Natural hazards and Natural disasters

eg;re, inadequate preparationof their property in the event of a bushfire andpoor disaster planning.Risk analysis is concerned with the chance of ahazardous event occurring and whether or not itcould ... the people of that communityhave decided that the benefits of living andworking there outweigh the risk factor.ASSESSING THE RISKFew Australian communities are free of the risk ofnatural disasters, b ...

(2 pages) 33 0 3.0 Jul/2008

Subjects: Science Essays > Environmental Science