Essays on Health

Michael Bennet is a prominent and pragmatic politician who was first appointed by Bill Ritter, the Governor of Colorado, as the Senator for Colorado in 2009 to fill the vacant Senate seat left by his predecessor, Ken Salazar (The Yale Center for Dyslexia and Creativity 2017). He was later elected...

It is crystal clear that Nigeria for a long period of time has been faced with myriads of epidemic diseases such as HIV, and AIDS, malaria and Ebola. The US government through its various agencies and programs has put in place measures to curb and prevent the spread of these...

The Issue of Government Accountability and Corruption The issue of government accountability and the plague of corruption are issues that should make citizens lose sleep at night. In a world where transparency, integrity, and answerability are key issues that politicians and other government officials in numerous positions are very vocal about,...

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), opioid overdose claims more than 115 Americans every day with more than 33,000 succumbing to an opioid overdose in 2015 alone (NIDA, 2018). About 2 million and 591,000 Americans suffered from substance abuse disorders and suffered heroin use disorder as a...

Abortion is the removal of a fetus before it can be able to survive alone when outside the uterus. The terms pro-choice and pro-life boil down to whether a person thinks if abortion should be acceptable or if it should be banned (Roberts et al. 1879). However, there is more...

Defund Parenthood Act was introduced on 1st June 2017, and it is sponsored by Representative, Diane Black. “This bill prohibits, for a one-year period, the availability of federal funds for any purpose to Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc., or any of its affiliates or clinics, unless they certify that...

According to popular opinions, health insurance is generally expensive no matter the location of an individual in the US. However, Texas stands among the most costly states in the realm of the affordability of health covers, especially for people living below 133% of the federal poverty level. Evidently, data demonstrates...

A pressure group or interest group is a formally organized association of people or organizations based on a concern to attempt to shape public policy toward its side (Berry, 2015). All the interest groups have the desire to influence government policy to profit its members or a particular segment of...

Roe vs. Wade Supreme Court case involved the right of women to privacy. In the court’s decision, women were granted the right to seek abortion when they felt they needed it because the judges concluded that it was one of their constitutional rights to privacy. Although the decision was made...

Save the children is an independent international organization which deals with children rights issues. The organization has members in 27 countries and operational programs in over 100 countries. The organization was established in 1919 in the United Kingdom by two sisters, Dorothy Buxton and Eglantyne Jebb with the aim of...

Jane is a 22-year-old and an HIV positive single mother living in the slums located on the outskirts of the Chicago state. Jane was born to the African American parents who came to the U.S. in search of better living. When she was fifteen, her parents divorced based on the...

In the nursing profession, different qualities contribute in making a successful nursing career. In addition to passing exams, successful nurses possess different traits that can either make them successful in their work or not. In an effort to establish successful career, nurses are required to show traits or natural qualities...