In 2010, the United States adopted its first-ever comprehensive set of health system reforms in the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Implementation of the law, though politically contentious and controversial, has now reached a stage where reversal of most elements of the law is no longer feasible. The controversial portions of the law that expand affordable health insurance coverage to most U.S. cit...

Today, the global system is formed based on multilateralism, which is based on international relations and the origin of international organizations and institutions. But this matter is endangered by the unilateralism pursued by the United States of America. Coercive unilateral measures such as sanctions, threats, military intervention, and even measures such as withdrawal from international tr...

Although rates of obesity have increased universally in the United States over the past 30 y, it is clear that certain individuals are more susceptible to weight gain than others. Extreme obesity [body mass index (in kg/m(2)) > 40] is increasing at rates greater than any other class of obesity in the United States. Severely obese patients often suffer from a wide variety of comorbidities. Altho...

On November 20, 1989, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Rights of the Child after about a decade of deliberations between major stakeholders, including other United Nations agencies and Heads of Government of member states as well as Non-Governmental organisations (United Nations, 1989). In the World Summit for Children, which held a year later in 1990, world lea...

Despite decades of research on social mobility and wage disparities, it remains a puzzle why people from lower-class families earn less than upper-class even when similar in education occupational prestige. Taking sociocultural perspective class, we argue that key contributor to the class pay gap is origins tend work occupations with greater autonomy, whereas their counterparts are more prosoci...

class members in the prior state court case. Plaintiffs’ amended complaint withdrew one Plaintiff, but added two, Jack and Joyce Franklin. If the Franklins lived on, leased, or owned their current Concord Community properties between January 1, 1990 and December 22, 2002, they too were class members unless they opted out. The Franklins' status in the class action, however, is ultimately irrelev...

Objective. To compare the health, behavior and school problems, and use of medical, mental health, and special education services of privately insured, middle class black and white children in the United States. Design/Methods. Analyses of the Child Health Supplement to the 1988 National Health Interview Survey, with a nationally representative sample of 17 110 children age 0–17 years. Results....

Background Infant feeding may consist of direct breastfeeding (DBF), pumping and bottle feeding (P&F), formula feeding (FF), solid food feeding (SFF), and any combination. An accurate evaluation of infant feeding requires descriptions of different patterns, consistency, and transition over time. Methods In United States of America, the Infant Feeding Practice Study II collected information on...