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This 5 page paper provides an overview of the issues facing a population at risk and considers the social support networks in place to address the needs of that population. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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high risk of health issues, including lack of health insurance (access to care), problematic health behaviors (poor diet, substance use disorders), and environmental conditions that impact lifestyle choices. In
an effort to address the health problems for low-income children in African American families, nutrition programs like WIC (the Women, Infants and Children supplemental nutrition program) has been created as
a means of targeting low-income populations and improving the quality of nutrition. Essentially, this program is based around the need to ensure that children are provided with nutritionally adequate
food as a means of reducing hunger and malnutrition while also recognizing that low-income families may not qualify for an adequate amount of food stamps each month (Jimenez, 2009).
Lack of access to preventative care, including nutrition support, has resulted in health disparities that place young African American children, especially in the urban setting, at a significant disadvantage.
Social Support Networks and Community Health Social support networks have the potential of either supporting the continuation of problematic behaviors impacting health or creating a foundation from which change
can be secured. In many cases, social networks become the route of poor behaviors and choices that can have a negative lasting impact. For example, low-income African American
women are more likely to die from lung cancer as a result of cigarette smoking than white women who develop lung cancer, primarily because they continue smoking and often do
not seek a diagnosis until too late (CDC, 2007). Approximately one in five African Americans currently smoke, and one in ten African American high school students have already started
smoking (CDC, 2007; CDC, 2008). Smoking related illnesses are the foremost cause of death in the African American population in the United States, above AIDS, diabetes, accidents and
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