historically, the majority of immigrants to the united states came from european countries. the 1965 immigration reform act (ira) fundamentally changed the configuration of immigrants to the united states. the largest immigrant communities now consist of latin americans, asians, and africans. another important development in immigrant communities in the past few decades has been the growth of a...

BACKGROUND Evidence on the health risks of sitting is accumulating. However, research identifying factors influencing sitting time in adults is limited, especially in Asian populations. This study aimed to identify socio-demographic and lifestyle correlates of occupational, leisure and total sitting time in a sample of Singapore working adults. METHODS Data were collected between 2004 and 201...

Skin disease is the most common occupational disease, but the reported number is small in Korea due to a difficulty of detection and diagnosis in time. We described various official statistics and data from occupational skin disease surveillance system, epidemiological surveys and cases published in scientific journals. Until 1981, 2,222 cases of occupational skin disease were reported by Korea...

Assessment: People were questioned on presence of suicidal thoughts, defined as positive response to ‘‘Have you ever thought of taking your life, even if you would not really do it?’’ They were also questioned on their age, gender, baseline CIS–R score, marital status, size of primary support group, life events, occupational social class, weekly income, housing tenure, employment status, and su...