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exchange and disclosure of the individual health information. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) privacy rule was enacted on August 14 2002 .The rule applies to the health care providers, health care clearinghouses and other medical facilities. The Rule requires appropriate safeguards to protect the privacy of personal health information and sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures that may be made of such information without patient authorization.…

or the person committing the crime. Although athletes are seen as positive role models they are highly criticized when involved in the act of violence towards their loved ones. However consequences differ according to the athlete’s performance and popularity and more importantly on their gender. The media produces double standards by representing the act of domestic violence among athletes differently based on the gender of the perpetrator or person committing the crime. Domestic violence is…

(Ramos, 2013). Like in Colombia, Mexico’s poverty is due to the economic crisis but they also face problems with their environment or location. Children do not go to school which begins to hinder them because they do not know about endowments, information about markets, what they are interested in and nonetheless how to start a career. With no educated people to join fields, Mexico’s low productivity growth affects people ability to get better jobs, ultimately not allowing them to get better…

United States vs Portugal on Decriminalization of Drugs Decriminalization of Drugs in Portugal began in 1974 when democratic control was brought back to legislation (Thornton n.pag.). People that had previously left the country due to a dictatorship came back, and the people that returned were not all respectable. By the 1990s drug use was higher than ever. Many citizens were drug users. After that, the drug use sky rocketed. Included with the drug use brought addiction, HIV, and overdoses…

Information gathered by Gary Younge explains that “1.4 million United states firearm deaths from 1968 and 2011 compared with the number of us military deaths (1.2 million) in every armed conflict from the revolutionary war to the invasion of Iraq” (younge 7)…

been frightened from the laws being put in place, though the government should not be making the life of immigrants harder. Illegal immigration laws have been becoming more strict over the past century even though immigrants do not cause violence and crime, immigration laws need to be enforced, but not more strict, and immigrants help the economy. Background There are four main goals to…

wealthy and machiavellian investors. The social caste system that is implemented onto society distributes inequality amongst communities, which leaves in a great disadvantage those who are economically deficient. Poverty is the main culprit and the center of why sex trafficking is progressing at a rapid pace. Constant social oppression over the years has brought a sense of detachment,and has disintegrated the moral codes that have been implemented by traditional…

rate than other races however these pockets of crime spike when factoring in living in a low socioeconomic area. While this explains a little bit it doesn’t cover or account for all the statistics. Extensive research suggests that reactionary implicit racial bias is the culprit. This is essentially when a police officer makes a rapid decision within little time without full information. What happens is the police officer fills missing information with general stereotypes of what the public…

measure, it is necessary to assess the proportionality of the measure, namely the cost and effectiveness. The negative impact of racial profiling were mentioned produced are: the entire group is suspected of discrimination, trust in the police to reduce crime and disorder caused by the increase, decrease cooperation with the police and other citizens. She noted that some features are generally very easy to identify, and terrorist groups have demonstrated that they are able to escape…

the right to watch and record basically everything people do. The government put video cameras up in schools, buildings, stoplights, and satellites covering virtually everywhere. According to Alex Sinha (2013) NSA, the National Security Agency, started collecting as much information and data as possible from permanent residence in the United States in hopes of reducing the odds of another terrorist attack (p. 862). In 2013, Sinah also claimed in the early 1960s, NSA began keeping a “watch list”…