The number of older adults is expected to increase in the near future. Since women live longer than men, women tend to have more complex social networks than men, and women report higher rates of depression than men, it is important to determine whether gender and social isolation affect the...
depression; functional disability; mediation analysis Objectives To determine factors mediating the effects of a depression intervention for older African Americans on functional disability and, secondarily, whether functional improvements mediate intervention effects on depressive symptoms. Design Structural equatio...
Nevertheless, in the United States a survey in the mid-1990s claimed that nearly 5 million people had tried methamphetamine, representing an increase of approximately 240 percent from 1990. According to a national survey in 2012, some 1.2 million Americans had used methamphetamine in the past year...
change, but the stock market crash shifted focus to economic issues, unintentionally changing many American social dynamics. It became impossible for most Americans to maintain their former standard of living; many endured unemployment and homelessness during the first years of the Depression. ...
Parasites don’t only invade those who live in underdeveloped nations! It’s estimated that hundreds of thousands of Americans have undiagnosed a parasite infection. Many of them go ignored or misdiagnosed, and most are transmitted via food and water.
Making the Best of Hard Times: How the Nation's Economic Circumstances Shaped the Public's Embrace of Health Care Reform The U.S. Congress enacted expansive (and expensive) health care reforms amid the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. Public acquiescence pr... M Schlesinger ...
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Harris G FDA toughens warning on antidepressant drugs. New York Times October16 2004;http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/16/politics/16depress.html. Accessed December 20, 2004 25. Vedantam S Depression drugs to carry warning: FDA orders notice of risks for youths. Washington ...
The Great Depression taught people of all social classes the value of economic security and the need to endure and survive hard times rather than to take risks with one’s life or money. Moreover, faced with the spectre of totalitarian ideologies in Europe and Japan, Americans rediscovered the...
Black Americans also experience disproportionately low life expectancy (72 years of life for Blacks compared to 86 years for Asians) [19]; thus, reaching 50 years of age among Black Americans can signify a stage in the life course from midlife to older adulthood....