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how can poverty lead to ill health?

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Possibly: due to malnutrition, lack of health education, inaccessibility of vaccines , medicines or health care, overcrowding, lack of sanitation (ie. for urine/feces), etc.

Question 2

how does poverty affect your health?

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Multiple Ways: Poverty can affect your physical as well as your mental health in a variety of ways. Malnutrition can lead to delayed development and healing. Poverty can be a primary factor in delayed access to medical and dental care leading to more advanced problems. Unsanitary living conditions due to poverty is a major factor as well

Question 3

i'm wondering what effect does poverty have on mental health?

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Effect of poverty: On mental health is too broad a question to answer here.  Are you asking about the effect on the person in poverty or the effect on obtaining or delivering mental health services or something else?  You'll have to be more specific.  Obviously poverty affects access to health resources, especially in a predominantly capitalist society.

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please help with question. do all the health laws in the u.s. also apply to puerto rico?

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Yes: Puerto rico is a territory of the U.S. All federal laws (including health laws) apply there as any other state. There may be specific state laws that apply to puerto rico just as specific laws in any other state would apply to only that state.

Question 5

when is puberty?

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Puberty: Girls: breast budding indicates the initiation of pituitary pubertal hormones activating the ovaries.  In boys, the same pituitary hormones will lead to testicular enlargement.  Girls usually start b/w 8-12/13 years old. Boys start b/w 9-13/14 years old.

Question 6

what is late puberty?

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Delayed puberty: The typical adolescent, endowed with the impatience and insecurities of youth, would probably insist that any nanosecond that doesn’t bring an increase in height, breast size or beard growth qualifies as delayed puberty. Medicine has its own definitions: for boys, no testicular enlargement by the age of thirteen; and for girls, no breast development by thirteen or no menarche by sixteen.

Question 7

what triggers puberty?

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Still largely unknow: We still do not know precisely, yet certain hormonal chemicals are well know to play a major role such as leptin, gpr54, kisspeptin and melatonin.

Question 8

when does puberty end?

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Usually By 18 Years: Puberty is the period of transition to adult sexual maturity. Begins in males around 14.9 yrs on average (range of 13-17.3 yrs), with completion by 18 yrs. In males, the onset is signaled by enlargement of scrotum/penis and growth spurt occurs about 2 yrs later. Final height is reached by 18 yrs in most. Genetics plays a major role in final height and other physical characteristics.

Question 9

when does puberty start?

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Variable: Girls generally start between ages 8-11 and boys between 9 and 12.  For girls the first sign is a growth spurt and then development of pubic hair and breasts.  For boys puberty generally starts with an increase in testicular size and their growth spurt comes later.  Menses generally starts about when a girl's growth spurt is done.

Question 10

when does puberty stop?

Accepted Answer

Puberty: Puberty generally starts for girls bt 9-14, and for boys bt 10-15.  Puberty will generally last 3-5 years.

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