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We describe and evaluate the available evidence for and against each of these. What this shows is that: (1) there are few studies that have directly investigated specific risk factors in migrant and minority ethnic populations, with often only 1 or 2 studies of any relevance to specific explanations...
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PMID: 20513653
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Abstract
We describe and evaluate the available evidence for and against each of these. What this shows is that: (1) there are few studies that have directly investigated specific risk factors in migrant and minority ethnic populations, with often only 1 or 2 studies of any relevance to specific explanations...
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PMID: 20513653
PDF is available here.
Abstract
We describe and evaluate the available evidence for and against each of these. What this shows is that: (1) there are few studies that have directly investigated specific risk factors in migrant and minority ethnic populations, with often only 1 or 2 studies of any relevance to specific explanations...
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PMID: 20513653
PDF is available here.
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Climate change is occurring and has tremendous consequences for children's health worldwide. This article describes how the rise in temperature, precipitation, droughts, floods, glacier melt and sea levels resulting from human-induced climate change is affecting the quantity, quality...
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PMID: 20403822
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These findings indicate that issues of power and identity construction have great implications for the uptake of HIV prevention strategies by African immigrant groups and reveal important opportunities on which to focus prevention efforts....
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PMID: 20465975
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We examine relationships between immigrant generation and physical activity (PA) among Mexican, Chinese and Filipino adults, who represent the three largest immigrant groups in the US, and the extent to which the relationships are confounded by SES. Data from the 2000 US Census was linked with data...
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PMID: 20378226
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The aim of the present research was to examine the experience of extended periods of immigration detention from the perspective of previously detained asylum seekers and to identify the consequences of these experiences for life after release. The study sample comprised seventeen adult refugees (six...
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PMID: 20378223
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Abstract
We describe and evaluate the available evidence for and against each of these. What this shows is that: (1) there are few studies that have directly investigated specific risk factors in migrant and minority ethnic populations, with often only 1 or 2 studies of any relevance to specific explanations...
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PMID: 20513653
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We must train 800 medical students per year. MALAG adopted this recommendation. As a first step, MALAG approved two new programs: a special program for Academic Reserve candidates (Atudaim) and a new (5th) medical school in the Galilee. These two new programs, together with the new 4-year MD program...
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PMID: 20941932
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PNAS (107 Suppl 2)supplement_2 2010
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We discuss genetic variation in African populations contextualized with what is known about archaeological and linguistic variation. What emerges from this review is the importance of using independent lines of evidence in the interpretation of genetic and genomic data in the reconstruction of past...
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PMID: 20445100
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The attendance of migrant women at the national breast cancer screening in the Netherlands is high; however, a much lower attendance was found in a study carried out in one region of the Netherlands some years ago. An increase in the attendance rates of migrant women over time was assumed, but no na...
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PMID: 20150815
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This paper uses archival sources and autobiographies to give a fuller account of the lives of three Russian women psychologists, each of whom voluntarily emigrated several years before the Third Reich. As such, their stories contribute to gender history, emigration history, and ethnic history. The c...
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PMID: 20533767
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Rural and urban settlements of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) are characterized by intense marriage migrations: both indigenous residents of different uluses (districts) of the republic (7-30%) and migrants from outside Yakutia (7-29%) contract marriages in five administrative centers analyzed in t...
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PMID: 20583606
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Tuberculosis has re-emerged as a public health concern in high-income countries in the last few decades. The European region accounts for only 5% of world TB cases. The incidence of new TB cases in Europe varies from very low rates in Scandinavian countries (six to eight cases/100,00...
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PMID: 20406085
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In Washington State, the Conrad Program has increased the number of physicians in underserved areas who frequently stay beyond their obligations. The significant movement away from rural areas for postobligation employment, however, highlights the long-term need to continue state efforts to recruit...
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PMID: 20354376
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We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study in a French hypertension unit, comparing 719 patients born in Northern Africa to 3558 controls born in Europe, individually matched for age and sex. Using a Bonferroni adjusted alpha-level=0.001, we found no significant difference between the grou...
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PMID: 20001390
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