Puerto Rican Politics and the New Deal.

Substance Use and the Number of Male Sexual Partners by African American and Puerto Rican Women

Background In the United States (US), there are 19 million new sexually transmitted disease (STD) infections each year. Untreated STDs can lead to serious long-term adverse health consequences, especially for young women. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that undiagnosed and untreated STDs cause at least 24,000 women in the US each year to become infertile. This clearly is a...

The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study, a longitudinal cohort study on health disparities in Puerto Rican adults: challenges and opportunities

BACKGROUND The Boston Puerto Rican Health Study is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study designed to examine the role of psychosocial stress on presence and development of allostatic load and health outcomes in Puerto Ricans, and potential modification by nutritional status, genetic variation, and social support. METHODS Self-identified Puerto Ricans, aged 45-75 years and residing in the Bosto...

Johnson jfunb REPORTS ON THE COLLECTIONS OBTAINED BY THE FIRST JOHNSON - SMITHSONIAN DEEP - SEA EXPEDITION TO THE PUERTO RICAN DEEP NEW SPONGES FROM THE PUERTO RICAN DEEP

Dyspareunia in Puerto Rican middle-aged women.

OBJECTIVE Dyspareunia is a common sexual dysfunction. There is a lack of studies that address female sexual dysfunction in Puerto Rico. The present cross-sectional study characterized dyspareunia in a sample of Puerto Rican women aged 40 to 59 years and evaluated the relationship between reported dyspareunia with demographic, lifestyle, and health factors. METHODS Nine hundred twenty Puerto R...

The Boston Puerto Rican Center for Population Health and Health

Although health disparities are well documented among minority populations, they have not been fully explained by socio-economic status. We have demonstrated that Puerto Rican elders in Massachusetts are significantly more likely to have physical disability, depression, cognitive impairment, diabetes and other chronic health conditions than do non-Hispanic white elders living in the same neighb...