Category: Housing

According to government estimate over 40,000 Rohingya Muslims have illegally entered India after fleeing Myanmar. Rohingya are an ethnic group who predominantly reside in the western Myanmar province of Rakhine and often speak a dialect of Bengali rather than the native Burmese language. Myanmar does not consider the Rohingyas as citizens as they consider them …

In public health, the environment is now considered to be the set of “external” pathogenic factors having an impact on health (toxic chemicals, ionizing radiations, germs, microbes, parasites, etc.), as opposed to factors “Internal” (hereditary, congenital, functional, lesional, psychosomatic causes, etc.). Environmental health is then the totality of the effects on human health due to: …

Article Critique Name Institution Author Note Community Development Review The article written by James DeFilippis provides an explanation which exposes specific developmental approaches which influence the human centered society to a greater extent. In this case, DeFilippis claims that social capital, through its influence, effectuates some of the dominant societal forces which are directly associated …

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights specifies health care is a human right: “Article 25 – 1. Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in …

UNCONTROLLABLE POVERTYThroughout history, less fortunate people have been set apart or shunned from the general public. In the Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck, this statement holds true. Throughout the whole book, all of the less fortunate people are treated like they aren’t even human. This is not much different than how our society is …

Social work covers a lot of basic services intended in the serving both each of its members, people in need as well as the community equally, without requiring access to any benefits. It aims at enhancing the social functioning of individuals, groups, activities which constitute the interaction between man and his environment i.e., therefore, the …

Mental health can affect children, adults or seniors and it can be triggered by simple daily actions such as a high stress life, balancing relationships or biological factors. According to the Canadian Mental Health Association, nearly 1 in 5 children and youth in Ontario have a mental health challenge (CMHA Ontario, 2018). Every youth is …

Poverty in the United States has long been a social, political, and human rights issue. Few people would say that it is not our moral duty, as social human beings to take care of those less fortunate than ourselves, to the best of our ability. I say few because there are some people out there …

y, medical care, food, housing, and other things that people need in order to survive. People who can receive help from these welfare programs are children, elders, disabled, and others who cannot support their families on their current income. Another name for welfare is public assistance.There are many organizations that supply this public assistance. Such …