نتایج جستجو برای: ethnicity linguisticcultural characteristics

تعداد نتایج: 684132  

Journal: :Social science & medicine 2010
Chandra L Ford Nina T Harawa

Although social stratification persists in the US, differentially influencing the well-being of ethnically defined groups, ethnicity concepts and their implications for health disparities remain under-examined. Ethnicity is a complex social construct that influences personal identity and group social relations. Ethnic identity, ethnic classification systems, the groupings that compose each syst...

2013
Angelika Dimoka Paul Pavlou Izak Benbasat Lingyun Qiu

Recommendation agents are deployed to give online consumers advice on products. This study focuses on how two demographic interface characteristics of online recommendation agents – ethnicity and gender – influence the way consumers agree with the product recommendations offered by anthropomorphic (humanoid) recommendation agents. Because consumers may not always straightforwardly self-report t...

Journal: :The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners 2014
Sally Hull Rohini Mathur Kambiz Boomla Tahseen A Chowdhury Gavin Dreyer William Alazawi John Robson

INTRODUCTION Why is recording ethnicity important? The Race Relations Act of 1968 required all public bodies to consider the race equality implications in all policies. Since then, the official collection of ethnic group statistics has been mandated as an essential first step towards identifying and addressing ethnic inequalities. Capturing ethnic group information in routine health records is ...

2014
Kimberly G Fulda Anita K Kurian Elizabeth Balyakina Micky M Moerbe

BACKGROUND The purpose was to examine the association between paternal race/ethnicity and very low birth weight stratified by maternal race/ethnicity. METHODS Birth data for Tarrant County, Texas 2006-2010 were analyzed. Very low birth weight was dichotomized as yes (<1,500 g) and no (≥1,500 g). Paternal race/ethnicity was categorized as Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, other, and missi...

Journal: :Brazilian journal of otorhinolaryngology 2016
Andressa Vinha Zanuncio Paulo Fernando Tormin Borges Crosara Helena Maria Gonçalves Becker Celso Gonçalves Becker Roberto Eustáquio Dos Santos Guimarães

INTRODUCTION Diseases of paranasal sinuses, nasal cavity, and skull base can be treated by endonasal operations using a nasal rigid endoscope. When conducting this kind of surgery, anatomical references are critical for safety. OBJECTIVE To measure the distance from the posterior wall of the maxillary sinus to the skull base, according to socio-demographic characteristics, and to detail an an...

Journal: :Emergency medicine journal : EMJ 2011
M J G Bankart R Baker A Rashid M Habiba J Banerjee R Hsu S Conroy S Agarwal A Wilson

OBJECTIVES To identify characteristics of general practices associated with emergency hospital admission rates, and determine whether levels of performance and patient reports of access are associated with admission rates. DESIGN A cross-sectional study. SETTING Two primary care trusts (Leicester City and Leicestershire County and Rutland) in the East Midlands of England. PARTICIPANTS 145...

Journal: :acta medica iranica 0
ali rabbani growth and development research center, children’s medical center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. javad mahmoudi-gharaei department of psychiatry, psychiatry and psychology research center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. mohammad reza mohammadi department of psychiatry, psychiatry and psychology research center, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. mohammad esmaeil motlagh bureau of family health, ministry of health and medical education, tehran, iran. kazem mohammad department of biostatistics, school of health, tehran university of medical sciences, tehran, iran. gelayol ardalan youth &amp; school health office, ministry of health and medical education, tehran, iran.

mental health problems including emotional and behavioral problems during puberty may be under influence of different risk factors including cultures, living in urban or rural areas and ethnic factors which may vary between different countries. the main aim of this study is to investigate the profile of emotional and behavioral problems and the role of factors such as age, stage of puberty, eth...

2014
Tracy K. Richmond Marc N. Elliott Luisa Franzini Ichiro Kawachi Margaret O. Caughy M. Janice Gilliland Courtney E. Walls Frank A. Franklin Richard Lowry Stephen W. Banspach Mark A. Schuster

BACKGROUND Little is known about the contribution of school contextual factors to individual student body mass index (BMI). We set out to determine if school characteristics/resources: (1) are associated with student BMI; (2) explain racial/ethnic disparities in student BMI; and (3) explain school-level differences in student BMI. METHODS Using gender-stratified multi-level modeling strategie...

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