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Journal Article
Jan 1, 2014
The authors examine the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors (CVRFs) and cognitive performance in a multiethnic sample of older adults.
Findings emphasize the importance of key features for shaping the context leading up to primary care visits for help-seeking for mental health problems.
Examines racial/ethnic disparities in quality of schizophrenia care and assess the size of observed disparities across four U.S. states and over time.
Nov 1, 2013
Racially/ethnically diverse preadolescent children share many of the same risk factors for smoking that have been found in studies of older children. Therefore, antismoking policies and programs might be more effective if designed for preadolescents as well as adolescents.
Sep 1, 2013
Evaluates the equivalence of the PROMIS® physical functioning item bank by language of administration (English versus Spanish).
Aug 8, 2013
We examined differences in the use of mental health services, conditional on the presence of psychiatric disorders, across Mexico's population with different US migration exposure and in successive generations of Mexican Americans in the US.
May 22, 2013
We examined the contribution of perceived racial/ethnic discrimination to disparities in problem behaviors among preadolescent Black, Latino, and White youths.
May 13, 2013
Disparities in prison and diversion to drug treatment among drug-involved offenders affect hundreds of thousands of citizens and might reinforce imbalances in criminal justice and health outcomes.
May 1, 2013
Findings suggest that the stress of multiple types of discrimination plays a role in health outcomes.
Apr 1, 2013
This article examines the access to pension and health insurance benefits and employment status of older Mexican return migrants.
Mar 1, 2013
There are large racial disparities in the use of mental health care. But they are not explained by different treatment preferences across ethnic and racial groups.
Feb 1, 2013
The authors investigate the salmon-bias hypothesis, which posits that Mexicans in the U.S. return to Mexico due to poor health, as an explanation for the Hispanic health paradox.
