Active transportation and acculturation among Latino children in San Diego County
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Walking for transportation among Latino adults in San Diego County: who meets physical activity guidelines?
BACKGROUND U.S. Latinos engage in nonleisure-time walking (NLTW) more than other ethno-racial groups. Studies are needed to explore factors associated with NLTW to inform interventions for effective physical activity promotion. PURPOSE To examine the social-ecological correlates of NLTW among Mexican-origin Latinos. METHODS Individual, social, and environmental level factors and PA were ass...
متن کاملImmigration and tuberculosis among children on the United States-Mexico border, County of San Diego, California.
OBJECTIVE To identify factors contributing to a 400% increase in tuberculosis among children in San Diego County, California, from 1985 to 1993. DESIGN Review of medical records of reported cases in 1989, 1991, and 1993 and their source case. RESULTS Of 192 children with tuberculosis, the largest increase was observed in children younger than 5 years old, of whom 77.4% were born in the Unit...
متن کاملHepatitis A vaccine uptake in San Diego County: Hispanic children are better immunized.
BACKGROUND Few studies have examined compliance with hepatitis A vaccination recommendations or factors likely to predict vaccination against hepatitis A virus. OBJECTIVES To investigate hepatitis A coverage among 3- to 17.9-year-olds in San Diego County and examine predictors of child and adolescent hepatitis A immunization. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 1455 participants co...
متن کاملClassifying HIV risk tweets using tweets from San Diego county
This project aims to characterize and classify tweets that show users exposing HIV risk behaviour through their tweets on the social networking site Twitter. A labeled dataset obtained from doctors in UCSD’s Anti Viral Research Center (AVRC) was used as the dataset. To get a better understanding of the data collected and to build a good classification model, a series of exploratory data analysi...
متن کاملWest Nile Virus Knowledge among Hispanics, San Diego County, California, USA, 2006
To the Editor: West Nile virus (WNV), spread by infected mosquitoes, is a serious public health threat throughout the United States and can cause life-altering and even fatal disease (1). In San Diego County, California, the human infection rate was 0.18 per 100,000 persons during 2003–2006 (5 cases, 1 locally acquired) and then increased to 0.52 and 1.17 per 100,000 persons in 2007 and 2008, r...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Preventive Medicine
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0091-7435
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2008.01.018