Racial and ethnic disparities in health and mortality have been well documented for over 100 years (Williams, 2012). Some racial and ethnic groups in the U.S., particularly non-Hispanic Black and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) people, suffer disproportionately from a variety of chroni...
African Americans, American Indians, Mexican, Chinese and Filipinos born in the United States, experienced declining BMI as they aged, with lower rate compared to immigrants. Chinese and Filipinos had the lowest BMI among residents. Cuban and Dominicans born in the USA had lower BMI compared to...
Racial and ethnic minoritized groups are disproportionately at risk for Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), but are not sufficiently recruited in AD neuroimaging research in the United States. This is important as sample composition impacts generalizability of fi
“Are We ‘People of Color’?”| American Indians in Children’s Literature “#BAMEOver: A Statement for the UK”| What Next? “We choose not to be reduced to an inaccurate grouping. But what we have in common is that we are…’People who experience racism’. This term will...
Toward this end, the settlement-community hierarchy of the southern Chipewyan Indians is interpreted as a framework for resolving the conflicting advantages and disadvantages of nucleation and dispersion, for regulating information flow, and for maintaining organizational flexibility......
| American Indians in Children’s Literature “#BAMEOver: A Statement for the UK” | What Next? “We choose not to be reduced to an inaccurate grouping. But what we have in common is that we are…’People who experience racism’. This term will require you to then articulate ...
This use of genetic background measures is particularly common in large endeavors such as in genome-wide association studies. However, in smaller candidate gene studies, investigators have asked whether accounting for SRE alone might be sufficient to control for the confounding effect, especially when...
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This book provides a historical and political perspective on the study of health, race and ethnicity, highlighting key issues on disparities in health care access, use and quality received by different ethnic groups and minorities in the USA, as well as examining the role of health care ...