OBJECTIVES Hispanics appear to live longer compared to other ethnic groups in the United States. Our main objective was to determine whether data quality biases mortality statistics. We calculated the impact of misclassification of ethnicity on death certificates in order to create adjusted mortality estimates. METHODS We used the National Mortality Follow-Back Survey of 1993 (NMFS) for our a...

The pattern of displacement carried out by the community triggers increasing diversity in Indonesia. Be it terms culture, religion, ethnicity, and so on. Just like what happened Tanjung Gunung Village where there are Malay Buton ethnicities. research aims to find social interaction between ethnic groups Village, Bangka Tengah Regency. method used this is qualitative approach with descriptive me...

OBJECTIVE To determine if patient race/ethnicity is independently associated with cranial computed tomography (CT) use among children with minor blunt head trauma. DESIGN Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study. SETTING Pediatric research network of 25 North American emergency departments. PATIENTS In total, 42 412 children younger than 18 years were seen within 24 hours of minor...

BACKGROUND Most studies on mental health associates of obesity have focused on depression and less is known about the role of anxiety in obesity. OBJECTIVES This study compared the additive effects of General Anxiety Disorder (GAD) and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) on Body Mass Index (BMI) across sub-populations of Blacks based on the intersection of ethnicity and gender. METHODS Data cam...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Ischemic heart disease (IHD) accounts for one-third of annual deaths in the U.S. and mortality rates vary by ethnicity. The association between adherence to dietary guidelines for fruit and vegetable intake with IHD mortality among different ethnic groups has not previously been examined. METHODS AND RESULTS A prospective cohort design was used to examine the incidence of ...

BACKGROUND Occupational bladder cancer mortality among minority racial/ethnic groups is not well described compared to occupational bladder cancer mortality among non-minority males in the United States. METHODS Race/ethnicity- and sex-specific bladder cancer mortality (1985-1992) of workers employed in 21 states was examined using a proportionate mortality study design. Mortality of specific...

Ethnic differences and commonalities rarely have been the focus of community-based research on violence against women. The few existing studies typically used survey instruments developed on and used with Anglos and simply applied them to members of other ethnic groups. The proposed conceptual framework is based on a review of the published literature and on information gleaned from focus group...

Background. It remains unclear whether neighborhood poverty contributes to differences in subsite-specific colorectal cancer (CRC) incidence. We examined associations between census-tract poverty and CRC incidence and stage by anatomic subsite and race/ethnicity. Methods. CRC cases diagnosed between 2005 and 2009 from 15 states and Los Angeles County (N = 278,097) were assigned to 1 of 4 groups...