{"id":127850,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/numerous-studies-find-that-as-african-americans-age-they-get-progressively-unhealthier-than-their-white-counterparts-and-are-more-likely-to-have-a-premature-death-how-does-the-cumulative-disadvantag"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:23:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:23:00","slug":"numerous-studies-find-that-as-african-americans-age-they-get-progressively-unhealthier-than-their-white-counterparts-and-are-more-likely-to-have-a-premature-death-how-does-the-cumulative-disadvantag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/numerous-studies-find-that-as-african-americans-age-they-get-progressively-unhealthier-than-their-white-counterparts-and-are-more-likely-to-have-a-premature-death-how-does-the-cumulative-disadvantag\/","title":{"rendered":"Numerous studies find that as African Americans age, they get progressively unhealthier than their white counterparts and are more likely to have a premature death. How does the cumulative disadvantage perspective explain this pattern? How does the weathering hypothesis explain the same pattern? Which explanation do you find most persuasive? Why?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Western Sydney Wellness Trust<\/p>\n

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The Western Sydney Wellness Trust provides community health care and social care services to a population of 2,000,000 people living in the Western Sydney Area of Australia. The Trust was formed five years ago from the merger of the then separate Community Health Care Trust and Social Services Department.<\/p>\n

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The Community Health Care Trust employed staff with medical training from a variety of disciplines such as District Nurses and Physiotherapists. They visited patients in their homes and provide care to them there. The Social Services Department employed staff with non-\u00ad\u2010medical care skills, also from a wide variety of disciplines such as Adult Carers and Child Protection Officers, who also visited clients in their own homes and provided social care.<\/p>\n

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The objective of both organisations was to enable people to go on living in their own homes for as long as possible, thus delaying their move to Trust-\u00ad\u2010funded Nursing homes.<\/p>\n

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This merger was the result of a new central government policy being piloted in the region in which Western Sydney falls. There are nine other Community Trusts within the region, none of which are as progressive in their thinking as the Western Sydney Health and Social Care Trust. The objectives of the government policy are to improve the care provided and reduce the overall cost of providing that care. The new combined Trust was given a large degree of organisational and financial autonomy within the framework of overall management by the local region, and an energetic, forward thinking Chief Executive, Jim James, previously the Director of Social Services, was appointed to lead the new combined Trust. Jim James immediately appointed the hardworking Operations Director of the Community Health Care Trust, DrNorthy to the position of Business Development Director \u2013 effectively his deputy.<\/p>\n

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The Trust is headquartered in an old Victorian-\u00ad\u2010style Mental Health Hospital facility in Parramatta with 50 other offices, clinics and care homes scattered over the geographical area served by the Trust. Very few of these offices have been purpose-\u00ad\u2010built.<\/p>\n

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The Trust now employs 3000 staff split into a relatively small Head Office team including Finance, Personnel and Business Development and the professional care staff who are divided into 3 Directorates as follows:<\/p>\n

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