Alexia Jimenez-Carrillo Health Quiz

Alexia Jimenez- Carrillo

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Health Quiz

 

In the article, Racial Prejudice and Spending on Drug Rehabilitation: The Role of Attitudes Toward Blacks and Latinos, a General Social Survey was conducted to analyze this topic. This survey was done with 864 people. The dependent variable on this study was to find out if people thought that we were spending too much money on drug rehabilitation. The independent variable was the feeling about this topics with African Americans and Latinos. The way that this survey was able to filter out the responses between just Blacks, Hispanics, and whites was that they would ask two questions to determine the interviewees feelings toward Blacks and Hispanics. They also had a few more questions on the survey asking for the interviewee to answer a few more questions about what the interviewee thought about how lazy and smart a white person is. These questions were also asked about Blacks and Hispanics. The way that they recorded this was by asking the interviewee to rate from 1-7. The question that was asked was dependent of what 1 and 7 stood for. Once this was done, the numbers were added and the answers with the highest numbers, showed to be more prejudice.

The results of this study were that 62% of the interviewees said that not enough money is spent towards drug rehabilitations. It was also found that 55% of the interviewees were not okay with someone from their family marrying a Black person. This study found that Blacks and Latinos are still the most stereotyped and are still looked at as the laziest and not the smartest. Whites were still shown to be more trusted, supported, and accepted into communities than another race.

 

In the article, Risk as Social Context: Immigration Policy and Autism in California a study focused on 16,681 children that were born between 1992 and 2000 and that were being treated for autism by 2006 in California. The DDS is a service for people with autism. This survey then compared the names that DDS had on file with birth records from California. This survey also documented the race of both of the parents. The child would be considered Hispanic if even only one parent was Hispanic. This study focused on comparing autism with Hispanics and non-Hispanics. The study also focused on whether the mother of the child was Hispanic and born in the U.S. or not.

The findings in this study were that between the years 1992-2000 the probabilities between a Hispanic child and a white child being diagnosed with autism were about the same. There was very minimal difference between who would have more of a probability of being diagnosed with autism but Hispanics had a slighter higher chance than white children. What was found is that coming from parents that are Hispanics doesn't increase the chance of a child to be diagnosed with autism, but the time of when they were in California. Parents that were here illegally during the years that 187 was not associated with California, increased the chances of a child and autism. This is because the parents were denied all of the benefits than any other resident would have, such as medical treatments if needed an any other public services. Some parents weren't given the proper resources that they and the child needed, which lead to risks and sometimes autism.