How does the experience of Asian Americans in California with employment discrimination at ANF contrast with the perception of Asian Americans as a group that does not experience employment-related discrimination?

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Recall that the ADA prohibits discrimination if a person is perceived as being limited by a disability, regardless of whether that person is actually limited by a disability. According to the EEOC, one such case in which appearance preferences resulted in illegal discrimination occurred at a McDonald’s in Northport, Alabama. Samantha Robichaud had a cosmetic disfigurement, called a port wine stain, which covered the majority of her face. Robichaud began working at McDonald’s as a cook but said she accepted that position with the assurance she would have the opportunity to be promoted into management. To obtain such promotions, McDonald’s requires employees to be cross-trained and rotated into several of the jobs at the restaurant, including serving customers at the counter. Robichaud worked at the front counter for a while but was removed because of her appearance. She was later told that she would

56Puhl, R., & Brownell, K. D. (2001). “Bias, Discrimination, and Obesity.” Obesity Research, 9(12): 788-805.

How does the experience of Asian Americans in California with employment discrimination at ANF contrast with the perception of Asian Americans as a group that does not experience employment-related discrimination?
Choose a retail store in your area or use a catalog to document (in one visit) the racial, gender, and age composition of the sales associates (or models, if a catalog). What diversity-related factors are visible from your report?
Sources: Greenhouse, S. J. (2003, June 17). “Clothing Chain Accused of Discrimination.” New York Times; Chin A. (2002, April 23). “Why Abercrombie and Fitch Still Doesn’t Get It.” http://www.modelminority.com/joomla/ index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=65: why-abercrombie-and-fitch-still-doesnt-get-it&catid=44: media&ltemid=56, accessed August 9, 2010; ” Lieff Cabraser and Civil Rights Organizations Announce Abercrombie & Fitch Charged with Employment Discrimination in Federal Class Action Lawsuit.” http://www.afjustice. com/press_release_01 .htm, accessed August 9, 2010; Holmes, T. E. (n.d.). “Abercrombie & Fitch’s Discrimination Woes.” http://www.blackenterprise.com/Exclusivesek Open.asp?id=387, accessed September 27, 2004; Leung, R. (2004, November 24). “The Look of Abercrombie & Fitch.” http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/12/05/ 60minutes/main587099.shtml, accessed August 8, 2010.

never be able to receive a management position because of her appearance. The EEOC in Birmingham, Alabama, found Robichaud’s case to be meritorious and, after failing to reach a conciliation agreement with the restaurant, filed its first suit involving facial disfigurement in Alabama.
Other situations involving questionable appearance requirements concern employers’ restrictions against facial hair, preferences for hair color of a person’s ethnic origin, suggestions that women wear makeup or certain hairstyles, and limitations on religious apparel at work. Such requirements may constitute religious, racial, ethnic, or gender discrimination. Restrictions against beards have been challenged by African American men, who sometimes experience a painful condition called pseudofolliculitis barbae, or “razor bumps,” as a result of shaving. As discussed in Chapter 12, requirements that women not wear head coverings can result in religious discrimination. Other companies accused of appearance-related discriminatory conduct include Federal Express, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Alamo Rent-A-Car, Price Waterhouse, and Jean Louis David Salons.

Why do the negative health effects associated with thinness and attempts to be thin receive relatively little attention when compared with obesity?

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Anorexia is essentially self-starvation. In response to being starved, the body slows down its processes to conserve energy. Negative health effects associated with anorexia include dry, brittle bones (osteoporosis), muscle loss and weakness, hair loss, severe dehydration (sometimes resulting in kidney failure), and disrupted menstrual cycles. Bulimia involves recurrent episodes of binge eating, sometimes accompanied by purging. The binge-eating episodes may last for hours or days, followed by guilt, disgust, and shame. Those suffering from bulimia are likely to be average or above average weight. Negative health effects resulting from bulimia include swelling of the stomach or pancreas, tooth decay (resulting from vomiting), abnormal heart rhythms, and muscle spasms.
Anorexia and bulimia cross racial, ethnic, age, and gender lines; however, young women are significantly more likely to develop them than others. Estimates suggest that between 0.5{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} and 3.7{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} of females will suffer from anorexia at some point in life and that between 1.1{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} and 4.2{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} will have bulimia at some point. The mortality rate for those with anorexia is 5.6{0e601fc7fe3603dc36f9ca2f49ef4cd268b5950ef1bbcf1f795cc00e94cdd119} per decade, or twelve times higher than the death rate due to all causes for young women in the population. The most common causes of death due to anorexia are cardiac arrest, electrolyte imbalance, and suicide. After battling anorexia for many years, Karen Carpenter, a popular singer from the 1970s and 1980s, died at age 32. French actress and model Isabelle Caro, whose emaciated body appeared in an anti-anorexia ad died at age 28 in December 2010.52 Mary-Kate Olsen, Jane Fonda, and Sally Field have also reportedly suffered from eating disorders.

Questions to Consider
Why do the negative health effects associated with thinness and attempts to be thin receive relatively little attention when compared with obesity?
Investigate mortality rates for obese young women. How do these rates compare with those for young women suffering from anorexia or bulimia?
,2″Isabelle Caro Dies After Anorexia Struggle.” http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/30/isabelle-caro-dies-model-anorexia, accessed January 1, 2011.

Misperception: Thinness is always healthier than heaviness. Reality: Excessive thinness and excessive weight are both unhealthy.

The widespread dislike for fatness, its clear visibility, its perceived association with many negative personal attributes, and the lack of widespread sanctions for discrimination on the basis of fat all contribute to continued discrimination. Research on stigma provides some clues to understanding fat discrimination. Stigma theory suggests that those whose attributes deviate from the typical, normal, or preferred attributes of others in a situation may be stigmatized and this stigmatization will result in various negative outcomes.J3 Since two-thirds of the U.S. population is now overweight or obese, the “typical” or “normal” person is no longer thin. Stigmatization appears instead to result from deviance from preferred attributes rather than common or normal attributes. As discussed earlier, women suffer more negative consequences for being overweight than do men. Several authors suggest this is partly a response to media images that portray nearly all women as unrealistically thin and ignore larger (normal) women, resulting in greater preferences for thin women/4 Even “plus-sized” models are often smaller than the “average” woman. Since the images of women’s thinness are so pervasive and so strongly equated with beauty, women who deviate from these images are penalized by society, including employers and health care providers.

The Impact of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

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The Impact of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

What has been your experience with defensive medicine?

The Impact of Medical Malpractice Lawsuits

What has been your experience with defensive medicine?

I have actually had my orthopedic surgeon (very good) tell me that prior to operating he must do several other things for insurance purposes.

Once the other “procedures” were attempted and he had data on them, he could proceed with surgery if needed.

2) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

What does “standard of care” mean and why is it important? What is an exception to the statute of limitations? Why do you need a thorough understanding of the law as it impacts your employer’s practice?

I have actually had my orthopedic surgeon (very good) tell me that prior to operating he must do several other things for insurance purposes.

Once the other “procedures” were attempted and he had data on them, he could proceed with surgery if needed.

2) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)

What does “standard of care” mean and why is it important? What is an exception to the statute of limitations? Why do you need a thorough understanding of the law as it impacts your employer’s practice?

United States health care system

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United States health care system

posted by KANDI HORNE at Jan 06, 2015, 5:50 PM

Last updated Jan 06, 2015, 5:50 PM

The United States ranks 37th in health care system performance. The poor performance has affected the attempt to improving maternal and newborn health. Interesting enough I was never aware of the increasing mortality rates of maternity and newborns. United States has for a while suffered from its ability to present qualitative health care services, access, and efficiency of care. With its low rankings the United States citizens are suffering from living healthy lives. Obesity, hypertension and diabetes have been a great number in the U.S causing many to suffer. However, today changes are being made. Many leaders and organizations are promoting exercising and healthy eating. Advocates are coming up with more ways to make eating healthy and living healthy easier. Ironically political leaders are promoting the U.S as one of the best countries health care system which is by far not the truth because of its numbers. We are cost affective due to the new implementation of managed care plans. Unfortunately, the health care system of the United States cannot satisfy everyone as a whole. Regardless of improvements it will always go on as a system that cannot fulfill the people.

 

Understanding quality improvement is more important now than ever before.

posted by CARLOS RAIZ ENCISO at Jan 07, 2015, 1:16 PM

Last updated Jan 07, 2015, 1:16 PM

Understanding quality improvement is more important now than ever before.

The article remarks the necessity that the health care organizations, review its strategy and take a look below the water level, and make systematic structural changes, and abandon the obsolete way of health care delivery system. These days private payers and government agencies had been changed the method of reimbursement for services delivered by a provider, now they start with reimbursement programs that require  to meet some specific standards for quality of the services provided, and no longer through the old fee for service reimbursement system. According to the article the Government is pushing new rules in health care quality improvement in order for a health care institution to qualify as provider of Medical and Medical, the institution needs to meet all the rigorous quality improvements included in the participant’s requirements, where the provider reimbursement payments has been adjusted according to its performance and with emphasis placed on value base care. According to the article the government will give incentives to those private or larger health care providers who adopt the quality improvement methods in their health care delivery system, and will be penalize those who are not, or refuse to enroll in those quality improvement programs. It does not matter if is a small rural or large metropolitan health care provider, it is beneficial for both parties; the patient and the health care institution to adopt the quality improvement method, to deliver and outstanding quality of health care service.