Essay - Diabetes Bill and Chicano Mental Health Effect of Hr 5225...

Diabetes bill and Chicano mental health

Effect of HR 5225 or Diabetes Prevention Access and Care Act to ***** mental health

The new ***** HR 5225, or the ***** Prevention ***** and ***** Act is a newly-introduced me*****sure through which minority groups can gain access ***** government and social support on the treatment and diagnosis of diabetes. The increasing prevalence of diabetes mellitus as a common illness among Americans, ***** well as minority groups in ***** country, have become rampant that it required special attention and appropriate action st*****ards in order to alleviate ********** adverse effects.

HR ***** is composed of several components, which provides a direct and specific description of the measures that ***** government is propos*****g ***** enact, specifically addressing the problem of ***** as a ***** *****nd potentially dangerous illness ***** African-Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans, American Indians, and Alaskan Natives.

This paper looks into the salient effects and implications of the said health act on the ***** health ***** Chicanos (***** *****s). As one of the specific minority ***** cited in ***** bill, Hispanic Americans *****, like other minority groups, the potential to develop further ***** problems as a result of their incre*****ed affliction with diabetes mellitus. More than just a physical illness, diabetes is also detrimental to mental health because of the stress and complicated caused by the illness itself, not to mention the destabilization of the family as an important social unit among Chicanos. In effect, this paper looks ***** ***** social impact of the bill per se on ***** Americans, and how the***** ***** impacts actually translate to fur*****r incre*****e the detriment of diabetes on Chicano mental *****. This paper posits that ***** *****ed from ***** sickness ***** other health c*****cerns can ********** cause increased ***** health problems among Chicanos, and it is through HR 5225 that these problems are alleviated ***** gradually eradicated, if ***** totally eliminated in the present state of diabetes ***** and the current health status of Chicano communities in American society.

Among the stated measures in the ***** that would prove to be beneficial ***** Chicano mental health is the provision that states, "[r]esearch to prevent complications ***** individuals who have already developed diabetes, such as attempting to ident*****y the genes ***** predispose individuals with diabetes to ***** development ***** complications..." This me*****ure brings into fore the issue of current and potential occurrences of diabetes as a ***** concern among minority groups in the country. The proposition that ***** ***** ***** have diabetes will be "researched" in relation to the type of genes ***** they have demonstrate the American society's concern on the potential of the ***** to increase in *****. This fear is not unfounded, for Chicano lifestyle and diet are rich in elements that c*****tribute to ***** escalation of diabetes, ***** ********** a steady diet of fatty and starchy foods, not to ***** the propensity ***** *****s ***** eat, both as a ***** need ***** ***** social activity in ***** communities.

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