Hispanics and Health Care in the United States: Access, Information and Knowledge

Presents survey findings on Hispanics/Latinos' access to health care, sources of health information, and knowledge about diabetes, of which they have a higher prevalence than other groups. Analyzes data by demographics, education, and insurance status

Legal socialization effects on democratization

As is the case with all our joint publications, this article represents a genuine research collaboration between the authors, with equal contributions. Therefore, neither is first or second author. This article uses data from a collaborative project that grew out of the Law and Society Associations Working Group on Orientations toward Law and Normative Ordering‘. Ellen S. Cohn, lames L. Gibson, Susan O. White, Joseph Sanders, Joan McCord, and Felice Levine were responsible for the development and implementation of the research design. Funding for the project was provided by the (US) National Science Foundation (SE 13237 and SIR 11403). Our European collaborators include Chantal Kourilsky-Augeven (France), Grazyna Skapska, Iwona Jakubowska-Branicka, and Maria Barucka-Arctowa (Poland), Andras Sajo (Hungary), Rosemary Barberet (Spain), and Stefka Naoumova (Bulgaria). Pam Moore, Kris Guffey, Marika Litras, Julie Nadeau, John Kraft, and Kimberly Smirles provided valuable research assistance

Legal attitudes as precursors of moral development: A developmental study of perceptual judgments about criminal severity.

A popular trend in American education is the process approach of teaching (Scott 1972). The proponents of this pedagogical,- style view factual learning as having little import in a society which changes radically over very short periods of time and further espouse that textbook learning merely perpetuates a built­ in obsolescence in our educational system. They have expressed the concern that children be given tools (behavioral strategies) which are relevant, not only in solving the daily problems they confront, but which they can later integrate to solve unforseen future crises. Van Til (1974) has insisted that curriculum be related to the individual learners while illuminating social realities and clarifying values for mankind (p. 232). Metcalf and Hunt (1974) have argued for a curriculum that e amines social values and social policies that would assist young people in an examination of thsir basic assumptions about society

The \u27Lack of Separation\u27 Revisited: Small Business Owners and Risk

The close link between the personal financial affairs of a small business owner and his or her firm has been noted in prior research. This article compares attitudes toward risk on the part of small business owners (SBOs) and non-small business owners (NSBOs). In addition, it compares the personal balance sheets of SBOs to those of NSBOs to determine if SBOs hold a higher level of risky assets. Results reveal that small business owners express a greater willingness to accept risk and hold a higher level of risky assets in their personal portfolios. This finding is consistent with small business owners\u27 willingness to own and operate small firms which are, by their very nature, risky

Outcomes Comparison of Enculturating Advance Directives Process at a Health System

The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services requires organizations to comply with the Patient Self-Determination Act by having processes that inform patients about their rights to execute an advance directive (AD) and engage in shared decision-making. The aim of this study was to compare AD data from a previous study (1999–2002) to a postenculturation (2011–2015) of a structured process for documented patient’s preferences. Second, to conduct a descriptive, bivariate analysis of the enculturated structured ADs process during 2011 and 2015. This descriptive, comparative analysis included 500 random patients from four hospitals, and the enculturated descriptive analysis included 302 patients from six hospitals. Comparisons showed less no ADs and a greater institutional ADs post compared with pre (p \u3c .05). Fifty-four percent of patients from 2011 to 2015 had an AD, and none of them had resuscitative measures when Do-Not-Resuscitate status was ordered. This enculturated process which includes education for health-care professionals and the community facilitates optimal patient, family-centered care

Ariel - Volume 5 Number 1

Editors Mark Dembert J.D. Kanofskv Entertainment Editor Robert Breckenridge Gary Kaskey Editor Emeritus David A. Jacoby Photographer Scott Kastner Staff Richard Blutstein Bob Johnson John R. Cohn Joseph Sassani Ken Jaffe Bob Sklarof