On Arab American Literature

Observations on cancer of the breast among Arab-American women.

1577 Background: Breast Cancer Care among Arab American women (ArA) in the U.S. is not well documented. Dearborn, Michigan (a suburb west of Detroit) is home to a large and diverse population of Arabic ancestry. Oakwood Hospital and Medical Center (OHMC) is located in Dearborn. METHODS We analyzed Breast Cancer cases among ArA at OHMC between 2000 and 2009 and compared with European American ...

Trends in tobacco use among Arab/Arab-American adolescents: preliminary findings.

From the College of Nursing (TT, VR, HG, LW, HA, IA, OB, FT, MD) and Department of Family Medicine (HJ), Wayne State University, Detroit; Community Health & Research Center, ACCESS, Dearborn (AH, HJ, SA); Wayne County Department of Health and Wellness Promotion, Detroit (AK); Michigan. Thomas Templin, PhD; Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN; Hesham Gadelrab, MA; Linda Weglicki, PhD, RN; Adnan Hammad, ...

Predicting Physical Activity in Arab American School Children

Correlates of smoking behavior among Muslim Arab-American adolescents.

OBJECTIVES Although ethnic and gender differences in adolescent smoking have been well documented, factors influencing susceptibility to smoking and experimentation among the ethnic group of Muslim Arab-American youth have received little research attention. This study examines the smoking prevalence, the associations of known smoking risk factors, religious and cultural influences with adolesc...

Social relations and mental health among Arab-American elders.

One hundred Arab-American elders, ages 60 years and older, participated in a pilot study funded by the National Institute of Aging. The study group comprised both immigrant and US-born elders who answered survey questions about social relations and health. Univariate analyses focused on how immigrant status and gender related to social relations, followed by regression models that examined whet...