Background Past research has shown that Filipino cancer patients report lower levels of quality of life (QoL) than other ethnic groups. One possible explanation for this is that Filipinos do not define QoL in the same manner as others, resulting in bias in their assessments. Hence, Filipinos ...
Background Past research has shown that Filipino cancer patients report lower levels of quality of life (QoL) than other ethnic groups. One possible explanation for this is that Filipinos do not define QoL in the same manner as others, resulting in bias in their assessments. Hence, Filipinos ...
Filipinos typically have wide nostril floors, thick alae or wings and flatter tips. Chinese and Japanese patients have their own particular tastes, also. In Asian rhinoplasty, nostril narrowing may be required. While the thickness of the wings or alae, in medical terms, are thick, that cannot...
Background/Aims: Patients are being encouraged to use the Internet to obtain health information and interact with the health care system. However, surveys suggest lower use of the Internet by seniors, especially blacks, Latinos, and those aged 75+. We examined whether race-ethnic and age dispari...
However, Filipinos showed significantly lower incidence of medullary tumors when compared to NHWs (female IRR=0.60, 95% CI 0.40–0.87, male IRR=0.26, 95% CI 0.26–0.51). The largest increasing trends were among Asian Indians and/or Pakistanis for females (AAPC=5.19, 95% CI 3.81 to 6.58)...
The ethnic communities, including Armenians, Diasporic Minorities and Their Media Project was Dutch, Egyptians, Fijians, Greeks, Indians, housed at the London School of Economics, in Indonesians, Koreans, Nepalese, Filipinos, Britain. The 12 national reports produced by the Polish, Sri Lankan, ...
and 4 representing the lowest SES. Overall, there were 2937 (7%) patients with missing SES data, ranging from 7% among Whites to 20% among Filipinos; it is likely that these patients could not be reliability geocoded to a census tract. In the absence of individual-level SES data in the...
Other Asian immigrant groups, including Chinese, Filipinos, and Vietnamese, did significantly better academically (as measured by GPA and high school graduation). Given their school performance, immigration scholars have argued that Cambodian children are at risk of assimilating into the lowest social ...
Background Asians and Asian Americans in the USA have historically and continue to experience everyday and major forms of discrimination. However, much less is known, on a population-level, concerning the relationship between experiences with major discrimination and health outcomes among this racial/...
country of origin based on this resource must be interpreted with caution.96 Substantial evidence has shown that unequal cancer burden among populations of different races/ethnicities can be partially explained by their population-specific genetic background or genetic ancestry.49,97,98For example, Hisp...