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The Development Of Immigrants In Education, Kayla R. Guerrero
The Development Of Immigrants In Education, Kayla R. Guerrero
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Being an essential part of American community, immigrants face several challenges as they adjust to life away from their home country. Many of those challenges begin when immigrant students start school in the United States education system. This exploratory research investigates the school experiences of immigrants and whether or not they were supported by their peers, teachers, parents, and community and how that influenced their development. Adult immigrants will reflect back on their education experience through interviews in order for the researcher to contribute a new foundation for immigrant student development research from the perspective of actual immigrants. This will …
Iron-Deficiency Anaemia (Ida): Socio-Cultural Misconceptions Intersect The Health Of Vulnerable Populations In Developing Countries, Samantha G. Alarcon Basurto
Iron-Deficiency Anaemia (Ida): Socio-Cultural Misconceptions Intersect The Health Of Vulnerable Populations In Developing Countries, Samantha G. Alarcon Basurto
University Honors Theses
Iron is a mineral that the human body uses to make hemoglobin, a protein that red blood cells need to carry oxygen from the lungs to all parts of the body. The lack of adequate iron in the blood is known as iron deficiency, which if experienced in greater proportions, can lead to anaemia. Iron-deficiency anaemia is generally understood as a nutritional deficiency that can be treated by diets of food rich in iron content or the ingestion of iron supplements; yet lack of information, restricted access to bioavailable iron-rich foods, minimal awareness of anaemia’s detrimental effects on children’s cognitive …