the aim of this study was to assess the levels of maslow's hierarchy of needs theory had been fulfilled and to compare the maslow's hierarchy of needs among iranian different ethnic groups at tehran university of medical sciences (tums).this research was a descriptive-analytical study which conducted among administrative employees of tehran university of medical sciences; tehran, iran. the stru...

Black race and Hispanic ethnicity were associated with lower rates of sustained virologic response (SVR) to interferon-based treatments for chronic hepatitis C virus infection, whereas Asian race was associated with higher SVR rates compared to white patients. We aimed to describe the association between race/ethnicity and effectiveness of new direct-acting antiviral regimens in the Veterans Af...

Ethnic minority patients receive lower priority triage assignments in Veteran's Affairs (VA) emergency departments (EDs) compared to White patients, but it is currently unknown whether this disparity arises from generalized biases across the triage assessment process or from differences in how objective and/or subjective institution-level or person-level information is incorporated into the tri...

OBJECTIVE •To assess the impact of differences in ethnicity on clinico-pathological characteristics and outcomes of patients with upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC) in a large multi-center series of patients treated with radical nephroureterectomy (RNU). MATERIALS AND METHODS •We retrospectively collected the data of 2163 patients treated with RNU at 20 academic centres in Americ...

Policy debates about whether wages and benefits from work provide enough resources to achieve economic self-sufficiency rely on data for workers, not working families. Using the Current Population Survey, we find that almost two-thirds of families full time earn cover a basic family budget, but less than quarter low-income do. A typical full-time with below budget would need $11.00 more per hou...

The effect of economic change on the Latino to non-Latino White earnings gap has been well documented; however much of this research has focused on Latinos as a general category with little focus on subgroup variations. Despite varied histories and demographic characteristics Mexicans, Puerto Ricans and Cubans, the largest Hispanic subgroups, have usually been combined in analyses of earnings g...

BACKGROUND Although psychoses and ethnicity are well researched, the importance of culture, race and ethnicity has been overlooked in Personality Disorders (PD) research. This study aimed to review the published literature on ethnic variations of prevalence, aetiology and treatment of PD. METHOD A systematic review of studies of PD and race, culture and ethnicity including a narrative synthes...

Appearance and personal characteristics, such as age, gender, ethnicity and the way a person presents himself have been shown to play a role in many economic exchanges. Various explanations have been proposed for this finding, ranging from ‘statistical discrimination’, where such variables are surrogates for unobservable characteristics related to the quality of the counterparty, to ‘taste-base...