The Association

AHA, American Hospital Association The AHA was established in 1899 when a group of superintendents got together to talk about their hospitals and how they could improve them. But at that point, only superintendents could join, and it was known as Association of Hospital Superintendents. The name and policies of the Association changed two more times between the years of 1899 and 1918. The association is there to make sure that the standards and expectations that the hospitals are looked to hold…

Canadian Bankers Association Canadian Bankers Association is a group that makes sure that the canadians are successful in their business goals and tries to support them if they need help. They also help the government assess their revenue and asses their spendings and give ideas of how to be more successful and what to spend money on and what to save money on. CBA’s mission is to “provides its members with information, research and operational support, and contributes to the…

The American Medical Association is taking responsibility out of a person’s hands, placing it in the hands of the US government after declaring obesity as a disease. The US has one of the highest obesity rates in the world, over one-third of Americans are considered obese (Tanner, 2013). Obesity cost on average more than $190 billion dollars per year in medical bills and expenses (Tanner, 2013). The American Medical Associations decision to cover the cost of obesity will end up costing…

The Future Educators Association (FEA) is another teacher recruitment program in Mississippi. Future Educators Association is a national student organization whose primary function is to support young people interested in education-related careers and to build a rigorous and inspiring pathway to careers in education beginning in secondary school. The vision of the program is to provide every child with a well-prepared and effective teacher and to have teachers that view education as an…

The Grocery Manufacter's Association has a huge roll in the food industry as it is a trade association for many foods and beverages. The company was founded in March of 1908. It was created when multiple food comapnies came together to discuss how they would continue to keep running their companies with the new law that were made. Their mission is to fight against GMO labeling as they feel that forcing them to label GMO's would give the wrong impression. The GMA is an international…

actions, thoughts and feeling both positive and negative. Discuss any circumstances that made you feel uncomfortable or triggered emotions. The Visting Nursing association was only something I had heard about from the case managers at the hospital I work in but, I never really knew much about what they do. The Bethel Visting Nursing association has ten plus nurses on staff ,who visit up to eight patients daily with a nurse on call When I first found out I was going to the VNA my thoughts on what…

The National Woman Suffrage Association also known as the NWSA, was founded in 1869 by two women named Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. This association was founded for the sole purpose of allowing women to have more rights, such as voting. The association, on numerous occasions, would begin public debates on many issues including marriage and divorce. By the time the NWSA had reunited with its’ sister foundation, The American Woman Suffrage Association in 1890, the group of women…

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) was first introduced in the scientific literature in 1998 by Anthony Greenwald, Debbie McGhee, Joyce Sherry, and Jordan Schwartz. The IAT measures attitudes and beliefs that people may be unwilling or unable to report. The IAT is also a computer-based test that measures how rapidly people are able to categorize various words and images, and it capitalizes on the fact that most of us identify words and images more rapidly when it come from closely related…

The differential association theory on deviance or crime is the best theory to understand the problem of juvenile delinquency. The differential association theory proposes that through social interaction with others, individuals learn the techniques, motivation and rationale of doing criminal behaviors. This theory would explain juvenile delinquency as young adults within a community, learning criminal behavior as a byproduct of their primary and secondary group settings. Additionally,…

from a norm, especially a person whose behavior and attitudes that differ from accepted social standards. There are many different theories that try and explain deviant behaviors. One of them is Cultural Transmission or also known as Differential Associations Theory. This is a theory that says all behavior is learned, this would include deviant behavior. This theory focuses on the age of the “learner”, the intensity of the contact with the deviant “teacher” and the ratio of good ot bad in the…