• Cite this: New National Data on Americans' Substance Use, Abuse - Medscape - Nov 15, 2023. (medscape.com)
  • Reflecting underlying inequities, the COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected American Indian and Alaskan Native (AIAN) people who account for over 5 million people in the U.S. At the same time, vaccination rates among AIAN people have been higher than average to date. (kff.org)
  • Underlying inequities that existed prior to the pandemic contribute to AIAN people facing increased barriers to accessing health care and being disproportionately affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. (kff.org)
  • The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected AIAN people. (kff.org)
  • African American people are disproportionately affected by chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. (cdc.gov)
  • The pandemic has highlighted the digital divide, especially among children across the U.S. forced to learn remotely - and the vaccine rollout is putting an even brighter spotlight on the number of Americans without internet access. (yahoo.com)
  • With the distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine underway, ensuring equitable and rapid distribution to the U.S. population will be important for mitigating the disproportionate impacts of the pandemic for people of color, preventing widening racial health disparities going forward, and achieving broad population immunity. (kff.org)
  • Millions of people have been pregnant and given birth during the pandemic. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Early in the pandemic, Smith and her colleagues sought to quantify the risks COVID posed to pregnant people and their babies. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This article proposes a possible framework for reading the person-environment relations in the pandemic context, considering the Brazilian scenario. (bvsalud.org)
  • CDC programs protect the United States from seasonal influenza, as well as pandemic influenza which occurs when a new flu virus emerges that can infect people and spread globally. (cdc.gov)
  • A few of these animal influenza viruses can spread to people, and in rare cases, cause a pandemic. (cdc.gov)
  • People may have little or no immunity to pandemic influenza so the consequences can be much greater. (cdc.gov)
  • The 1918-19 flu pandemic was the most severe, killing 675,000 Americans and 50 to 100 million people worldwide. (cdc.gov)
  • This web content uses African American , unless referencing surveillance data. (cdc.gov)
  • America's Funniest People is an American reality show on ABC that debuted on May 13, 1990 as a 30 minute television special America's Funniest. (wikipedia.org)
  • The green-lit series, then named America's Funniest People for the fall season, aired as a weekly half-hour prime time series from September 9, 1990, to August 28, 1994. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like America's Funniest Home Videos, America's Funniest People featured a contest for funniest video, with the first prize winner receiving $10,000 and the 2nd and 3rd prize winners receiving $3,000 and $2,000 respectively. (wikipedia.org)
  • They then moved over to America's Funniest People for its initial season and produced a dozen videos which aired every other week. (wikipedia.org)
  • When the show changed format and became The New America's Funniest People for the 1993-94 season, a new segment was added called the Prank Patrol. (wikipedia.org)
  • Violent al-Qaidists and their copycat crews use the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to rally and mobilise support, to vilify America and to undermine America's allies in the region.That does not change the basic equation that for the vast number of Palestinians, Hamas included, this is about addressing a real grievance and not about destroying Israel or America. (prospect.org)
  • OpinionNation: Rick Santorum: Defender of America's Working People? (thenation.com)
  • He is author and editor of more than 15 books, including America's Jews in Transition (Temple University), American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement (Wayne State University), Jewish Baby Boomers: A Communal Perspective (State University of NY), and Social Change and Halakhic Evolution in American Orthodoxy (Littman Library). (chabad.org)
  • a Black refers to people having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • Studies published between 1990 and 2020 providing data on older people (≥50 years) in LMICs (defined by World Bank Criteria) were included and quality-assessed. (lu.se)
  • People wait in a line stretching around the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center on midtown Manhattan's west side, to receive a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at the site which has been converted into a mass vaccination center in New York City, New York, U.S., March 2, 2021. (yahoo.com)
  • Fast-forward to 2021, and this obscure American brand has suddenly come under storm. (complex.com)
  • Federal data show that 32% of AIAN people had received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, compared to 19% of White people, 16% of Asian people, 12% of Black people and 9% Hispanic people of as of April 5, 2021.State data similarly find higher vaccination rates among AIAN people compared to other groups. (kff.org)
  • This brief presents available data on COVID-19 vaccinations among AIAN people from federal and state sources and discusses factors contributing to success in these vaccination efforts. (kff.org)
  • Chronic underfunding of the Indian Health Service (IHS) relative to health needs and high uninsured rates contribute to barriers to health care among AIAN people. (kff.org)
  • Existing social, economic, and health inequities have also led to higher rates of illness and death among AIAN people due to COVID-19. (kff.org)
  • Data available to date show that AIAN people are being vaccinated at a higher rate compared to other racial/ethnic groups. (kff.org)
  • The high vaccination rate among AIAN people largely reflects Tribal leadership in implementing vaccine prioritization and distribution strategies that meet the preferences and needs of their communities. (kff.org)
  • Under treaties and laws, the federal government has a unique responsibility to provide health care services to AIAN people. (kff.org)
  • The IHS also funds Urban Indian Organizations to make health care services accessible to people who reside in urban areas, who include most of the AIAN population . (kff.org)
  • Due to longstanding limitations and underfunding of the IHS, AIAN people face disproportionate barriers to accessing health care. (kff.org)
  • IHS historically has been underfunded to meet the health care needs of AIAN people, and access to services through IHS often varies across locations. (kff.org)
  • Given the limitations of IHS, Medicaid and other sources of health insurance remain important for expanding access to care for AIAN people. (kff.org)
  • However, as of 2019, 22% of AIAN nonelderly people were uninsured , the highest of all racial and ethnic groups (Figure 1). (kff.org)
  • AIAN people face increased risk of exposure to the virus to due underlying social and economic factors and have higher high rates of health conditions that put them at increased risk for serious illness if they contract coronavirus. (kff.org)
  • Reflecting these increased risks, AIAN people are nearly twice as likely to be infected with the virus, nearly four times likely to be hospitalized, and nearly two and half times as likely to die due to COVID-19 as their White counterparts, based on age-adjusted data (Figure 2). (kff.org)
  • Health disparities are differences in health outcomes that are closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental factors, that affect Black/African American people. (cdc.gov)
  • An America that accurately connects the dots in the region will likely pursue a more inclusive and comprehensive process and do so with the conviction that this is a vital American interest. (prospect.org)
  • The terms Black/African American refer to non-Hispanic people of African descent living in the US. (cdc.gov)
  • Only 8.5% were Hispanic/ Latino, while Black and Asian Americans made up just 6.7% and 4.8% of those vaccinated, respectively. (yahoo.com)
  • Consistent with the definition established by the Americans for Disabilities Act (ADA), the ACS subcommittee determined that, in order to measure prevalence, the concept of disability would be operationalized as functional limitations that would put the individual at a greater risk of participation restrictions. (cdc.gov)
  • I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you're still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place. (motherjones.com)
  • Overall, the number of poor and low-income Americans has grown to 140 million people when considering food, clothing, housing and utility costs, as well as government assistance programs, Barber told the Los Angeles Times . (newsone.com)
  • A new study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that if all animal-based food production in the United States were replaced by nutritionally equivalent plant-based crops, the country could feed an additional 350 million people (which is more than the total US population). (vegnews.com)
  • Seventy million people older than age 12 reported using an illicit drug in the past year. (medscape.com)
  • Alcohol remains the most-used substance, with about 137 million people reporting they consumed alcohol in the past month and 45% reporting binge drinking (five or more drinks on the same occasion for men and four for women). (medscape.com)
  • Additionally, some pregnant people may be undertreated for an infection because doctors are nervous about drugs' effects on the fetus, Smith says. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Poverty has caused a number of severe problems for people of color. (newsone.com)
  • People with neurologic and neurodevelopment conditions (including disorders of the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerve, and muscle such as cerebral palsy, epilepsy [seizure disorders], stroke, intellectual disability, moderate to severe developmental delay, muscular dystrophy, or spinal cord injury). (cdc.gov)
  • Its mission is to elect conservative candidates across America. (renewamerica.com)
  • Marcus rallied conservative musicians, singers and bands to record his song, "Taking Back America. (renewamerica.com)
  • The Joshua Project Progress Scale is an estimate of the progress of church planting among a people group, people cluster, country or language. (joshuaproject.net)
  • Racism, discrimination, HIV stigma, and homophobia have a negative impact on the overall health and well-being of African American people. (cdc.gov)
  • Addressing these social and structural barriers and encouraging safe and supportive communities can help improve health outcomes for African American people. (cdc.gov)
  • African American people have lower percentages of viral suppression compared to all people with HIV. (cdc.gov)
  • African American people experience high levels of mistrust of the health care system. (cdc.gov)
  • Get the latest data on HIV among African American people and find out how CDC is making a difference. (cdc.gov)
  • Patrick Caldwell is a writing fellow at The American Prospect. (prospect.org)
  • When you support The American Prospect , you're supporting fellow readers who aren't able to give, and countering the class system for information. (prospect.org)
  • There are also a small percentage of Americans that do not have the benefit of a home (homeless) that live on the streets. (answers.com)
  • In modern America, a much higher percentage of your communications and transactions are being recorded and stored by the government. (ritholtz.com)
  • This isn't, and should not simply be about white people loving black people. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • When the COVID-causing virus SARS-CoV-2 first emerged, it wasn't clear what additional risks-if any-it posed to pregnant people and their babies. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Understanding the modern American people group starts with knowing how its unique melding of nationalities, ethnicities and races made it what it is today. (joshuaproject.net)
  • The variety of races and vast geographic area Americans cover makes defining this people group difficult. (joshuaproject.net)
  • People of ALL races are suffering. (abovetopsecret.com)
  • Black/African American a people account for a higher proportion of new HIV diagnoses and people with HIV, compared to other races and ethnicities. (cdc.gov)
  • It's going to be the people who don't have access to technology, don't have access to Wi-Fi, and who have to do it by phone, where maybe you're going to be on hold forever, those are the people who we're going to see not getting vaccinations. (yahoo.com)
  • I consider myself a student of a lot of racial history in America, and I learned something making an outdoor show about race history in the country. (forbes.com)
  • Thurston is on a mission to see how culture, history, and the land itself are shaping what people do when they step through their front doors to embrace an outdoor way of life. (forbes.com)
  • We can look at our history as a nation to see that we have the ability to come together and to put aside our political rhetoric, difference of opinions, and the right to be heard and understood when the common goal is to bring hope and healing to hurting people. (bellaonline.com)
  • Early in its history, American culture differed appreciably by state and even town or city. (joshuaproject.net)
  • This documentary examines the racial history of America in three unflinching, animated, musical shorts. (cpb.org)
  • O ne of the greatest fights for African Americans throughout history has been the war on poverty. (newsone.com)
  • There's a whole history of policies that either caused harm to those communities or benefited white Americans. (philanthropy.com)
  • What people live in America? (answers.com)
  • For the most part, Americans live in homes either owned, rented or leased. (answers.com)
  • Which part of America do buddha people live in? (answers.com)
  • Where are the people who live there from in Delaware? (answers.com)
  • GLAAD President Sarah Kate Ellis joins Morning Joe at the start of Pride month to discuss the organization's annual Accelerating Acceptance study, which this year finds that non-LGBTQ Americans overwhelmingly agree that LGBTQ people should be free to live their lives and not be discriminated against. (msnbc.com)
  • More than a mere head count, the census is the authoritative source of information on where people live, the types of families they establish, how they identify themselves, the jobs they hold, and much more. (russellsage.org)
  • The American People provides a rich, detailed examination of the trends that shape our lives and paints a comprehensive portrait of the country we live in today. (russellsage.org)
  • Whether or not you agree with them, he ushered in a sense of priority and focus that placed the tragedy in a new light, giving Americans a charge as a united people, to take charge and become the Nation that can live up to the expectations of a nine year old girl, Christina Taylor Green, the youngest victim of the tragedy. (bellaonline.com)
  • After President Obama's insightful and encouraging and inspiring speech, perhaps we can take the words of the leader of this United States, and begin to live up to the expectations of nine year old, Christina Taylor Green, and that of our own children, and work towards a nation that democracy is as good as our children can imagine, allowing us to be a united people in these United States. (bellaonline.com)
  • Today, most American couples live together before they are married and more than half of children are born to parents who are not married. (joshuaproject.net)
  • The section also provides demographic information about people who live in eastern Omaha. (cdc.gov)
  • New cases of vector-borne T cruzi infection usually occur in persons who live in primitive houses in areas where the sylvatic cycle is active. (medscape.com)
  • According to Gigi Sohn , distinguished fellow at Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy, tens of millions of Americans don't have broadband access because they can't afford it. (yahoo.com)
  • Walmart is the largest retail store in the United States and has millions of people visit stores each day wearing anything but proper attire. (peopleofwalmart.com)
  • For millions of African Americans across the nation, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) is a way to directly address the prevalence of poverty. (newsone.com)
  • New study finds that if resources were diverted from animal agriculture into plant-based food production, we could feed millions of Americans without using more land. (vegnews.com)
  • Guns have been part of American culture since the country's inception and were certainly a key factor in the formation of militias throughout the colonies, in expanding through the west, in providing a livelihood and putting food on the table. (answerbag.com)
  • Today, due to the industrial revolution--which urbanized much of the country's population--and the information age, many Americans move often, with extended families often living in different states. (joshuaproject.net)
  • They discuss how people form multiracial identities and dissect the racial and ethnic composition of the roughly seven million Americans who chose more than one racial classification. (russellsage.org)
  • In roughly 30 states, it is still legal to fire, refuse housing, or deny service to Americans based solely on sexual orientation or gender identity. (americanprogress.org)
  • It went from about 15 percent people of color on staff to 40 percent in roughly four years. (philanthropy.com)
  • In addition, the survey revealed that roughly 10 million Americans are misusing stimulants, including cocaine (5.3 million), prescription stimulants (4.3 million) and methamphetamine (2.7 million). (medscape.com)
  • Every day, Trump continues to put our national security and the American people at risk through his dangerous actions. (democrats.org)
  • Some board members had read Decolonizing Wealth, by Edgar Villanueva, who proposed that foundations give 10 percent of their endowments to help Black people and Native Americans build wealth. (philanthropy.com)
  • The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick. (guidestar.org)
  • Learn about our sister organization, the Center for American Progress Action Fund , an advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of all Americans. (americanprogress.org)
  • As executive director of the Arab-American Association of New York, she oversees an organization that assists thousands of people in Bay Ridge and elsewhere. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • Free Speech For People is a registered 501(c)(3) organization and your donations are tax-deductible to the highest extent of the law. (freespeechforpeople.org)
  • In a radio interview , Wall Street Journal reporter Julia Angwin (who's been one of the best at covering the surveillance state in the US) made a simple observation that puts much of this into context: the US surveillance regime has more data on the average American than the Stasi ever did on East Germans. (ritholtz.com)
  • As many as 20% of people who die from lung cancer in the United States every year have never smoked or used any other form of tobacco. (cancer.org)
  • His hard-working parents came to America with the intent to make money to feed and care for their family. (complex.com)
  • Today, Tommy's father has a staff of Chinese immigrants who also came to America with the same intent to make money to feed and care for their families. (complex.com)
  • Mahjong is deeply rooted in the culture of many immigrant Chinese families who work tirelessly to make it in America. (complex.com)
  • Our goal is to help them make as smooth a transition to American life as possible," said Sarsour, who has been the executive director since 2005. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • Under this law, employers must make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. (medlineplus.gov)
  • They may differ in size, shape, and other ways, but there are some molds, yeasts, and mushrooms that can make people sick. (cdc.gov)
  • Stephen Monroe] EID has done some other articles about coccidioidomycosis but I think it's still an infection most people don't know anything about. (cdc.gov)
  • And when a fungus gets into our body through a wound or through an injection, such as with the recent unfortunate outbreak from injecting contaminated steroids, then a person can become very sick with a fungal infection. (cdc.gov)
  • For some people with Valley Fever meningitis or brain infection, they may need to take these medications for the rest of their life. (cdc.gov)
  • People with immunosuppression, including that caused by medications or by HIV infection. (cdc.gov)
  • Chagas disease, also known as American trypanosomiasis, is caused by infection with the protozoan parasite Trypanosoma cruzi . (medscape.com)
  • A minority of persons with long-standing T cruzi infection develop the serious cardiac and gastrointestinal problems that characterize chronic symptomatic Chagas disease. (medscape.com)
  • Christianity has influenced most aspects of American values, morals, laws and customs since European colonist first settled on the continent. (joshuaproject.net)
  • This law can protect you if your company has 15 or more people on staff. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Guns and hunting have been a way of life for hundreds of years, but not all Americans like to hunt. (answerbag.com)
  • For more than 200 years, America has turned to the decennial census to answer questions about itself. (russellsage.org)
  • While the years 2010 and 2012 came up most often for both groups on the retirement question, the surprising results were that most German speaking customers did not expect to change their view on Apple after Mr. Jobs leaves while the North Americans would. (macobserver.com)
  • Similarly, clergy members appear more trustworthy to older Americans than millennials: half of Americans older than age 55 trust clergy members, while only 32 percent of millennials (18 to 34 years) report the same. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Specifically, he notes that if the government decides it doesn't like someone, it analyzes all of the data it has collected on that person and his or her associates over the last 10 years to build a case against him. (ritholtz.com)
  • Sarsour joined the Arab-American Association of New York as a volunteer shortly after it was formed 11 years ago. (brooklyneagle.com)
  • In the past, A(H3N2) virus-predominant influenza seasons have been associated with more hospitalizations and deaths in people 65 years and older than A(H1N1) virus-predominant seasons. (cdc.gov)
  • Study after study tell us that hundreds of thousands of people die in the United States from poverty and low wealth, not because it's their time to die," Barber said. (newsone.com)
  • The Catholic priest abuse stories from the early 2000s helped lead to a sharp drop in Americans' ratings of clergy, a decline from which the profession has yet to fully recover. (christianitytoday.com)
  • Then most sickened people usually recover and are protected from being infected again by developing immunity to the fungus. (cdc.gov)
  • And…it may cause or exacerbate existing maternal morbidities-things that any pregnant person could have. (scientificamerican.com)
  • One hypothesis is that pregnant people experience immunological changes that prevent their body from rejecting the fetus-much like it might reject a transplanted organ, Papageorghiou says. (scientificamerican.com)
  • I am glad to be a part of it-glad to wish General Eisenhower all possible success, as he begins his term--glad the whole world will have a chance to see how simply and how peacefully our American system transfers the vast power of the Presidency from my hands to his. (ucsb.edu)
  • The survey estimates that 991,000 people misused either the prescription, or illegal form, with the vast majority (686,000) using illegal fentanyl. (medscape.com)
  • This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. (google.com)
  • We share this public health information with sincere respect for American Indian and Alaska Native traditions around pregnancy and birth, with the intention of keeping mothers and babies healthy. (cdc.gov)
  • The Boisi Center is committed to fostering rigorous, civil, and constructive conversations about religion in American public life, in pursuit of the common good of a religiously diverse society. (bc.edu)
  • Mark Massa, S.J., is the director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College, where he is also professor of Theology. (bc.edu)
  • In fact, recorded public trust in clergy has now reached an all-time low , with only 47 percent of Americans rating clergy highly on honesty and ethics (compared to 82 percent saying the same about nurses). (christianitytoday.com)
  • The report calls on the U.S. Congress to take a comprehensive approach to securing nondiscrimination protections in employment, housing, public accommodations, credit, and federal funding for LGBT Americans. (americanprogress.org)
  • In this direction, Brazil has formulated public policies to guarantee autonomy and wider support of the health system, and of the education and work systems as well, improving the quality of life of disabled people. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to CDC data available Wednesday , 65% of the 51.7 million Americans who have received at least one of their COVID vaccine shots were white. (yahoo.com)
  • One [is] from COVID itself-pneumonia and other things that any person [could] have from COVID. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Nuestro argumento se centra en el análisis de la espacialización de las desigualdades sociales y raciales, como factores determinantes para la propagación de COVID-19 y las diferencias en sus impactos, en paralelo a otras lecturas que la psicología ambiental ha presentado para este contexto. (bvsalud.org)
  • Many elderly, low-income people and communities of color aren't getting appointments because cities require them to register online, according to Nicol Turner Lee , director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. (yahoo.com)
  • A relaxing place to discuss life issues, food, health, news and more related to the people of color. (bellaonline.com)
  • In January, Twitter was aflame with criticism once people caught wind of the whitewashed version of mahjong , followed by multiple articles using "The Mahjong Line" and "cultural appropriation" in the same headline. (complex.com)
  • Once again, Gallup has examined who Americans regard as the most honest and ethical person in their lives-and found that the answer is not their pastor, but their nurse or pharmacist. (christianitytoday.com)
  • which means, a person who shows some limitation in regard to his/her physical, mental, intellectual, sensorial or other condition, and restricted participation in the society. (bvsalud.org)
  • the reality is that many immigrants have to work twice as hard (if not harder) to have a comfortable living situation in America. (complex.com)
  • Please join the Center for American Progress for an event discussing these issues, where CAP will unveil a major report outlining discrimination against LGBT people in many facets of American life. (americanprogress.org)
  • The American People addresses important questions about national life that census data are uniquely able to answer. (russellsage.org)
  • Stay up-to-date with news, valuable information, and ways to get involved with the American Cancer Society. (cancer.org)
  • But the Gallup survey wasn't all bad news for religion in America. (christianitytoday.com)
  • The UK Guardian declared prolific writer, singer and songwriter Lloyd Marcus the Tea Party Movement's most prominent African American, seen on Fox News, CNN and more. (renewamerica.com)
  • The modern dominant inhabitants are Americans (people from mixed European ancestral backgrounds, mostly British but also including French, Spanish, Dutch and so on). (answers.com)
  • Chabad's American Era: Modern People in Hasidic Garb? (chabad.org)
  • BACKGROUND: There is rapid growth of older people in Low- and Middle- Income Countries (LMICs). (lu.se)
  • DISCUSSION: A wide range of methodologies and clinical criteria are used in prevalence studies of depression and anxiety in older people. (lu.se)
  • Meta-analysis data suggest that rates of depression are similar in older people in LMICs compared to HICs but mental healthcare resources are limited, suggesting a large potential treatment gap. (lu.se)
  • About 2% of Americans (6.1 million) older than age 12 reported that they had an opioid use disorder. (medscape.com)
  • The survey data also showed that 59.3 million Americans - nearly 1 in 4 adults older than age 18 - reported they had a mental illness in the past year. (medscape.com)
  • He went on, "So yes, I think people are frustrated and the protesters are giving voice to a more broad-based frustration about how our financial system works. (motherjones.com)
  • The core is: The American people do not think the system is fair, or on the level. (motherjones.com)
  • So whether it's helpful to us, or helpful for people to understand in the political system that there are a lot of people out there concerned about the economy-I know the focus is on Wall Street, but it's a broader discussion that we're having. (motherjones.com)
  • Massa has appeared on a number of programs in the 'American Experience' series on PBS, including 'Religion in America,' and most recently, 'An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story. (bc.edu)
  • Celebrating Aliens' 30th, plus Ash vs Evil Dead, People vs O.J. Simpson & Amazon deal today on the Lost in Space TV series BD! (thedigitalbits.com)
  • No. persons who self-reported occupational exposure to rodents. (cdc.gov)
  • The people who do get sick usually develop a flu-like illness 1 to 3 weeks after exposure to the fungus. (cdc.gov)
  • In this section, the founders discussed a time "when an American businessman returned from working overseas in China" and "brought the game with him" back to America. (complex.com)