Race-ethnicity and Prescription Drug Misuse: Does Self-esteem Matter?

Preventing stroke: does race/ethnicity matter?

Stroke, the third leading cause of death in the United States, is also the chief cause of neurological disability in the elderly. Lifetime risk of stroke at age 65 years is estimated to be 1 in 5 in women and 1 in 6 in men in the Framingham Study population.1 Despite improvements in management of the acute stroke and in rehabilitation poststroke, it is clear that prevention holds the key to dec...

Youth Clinical Outcomes: Does Race/Ethnicity Matter

These initiatives are heartening for the field of mental health but they may also be a source of some concern. Pressures for accountability may force the process of program evaluation to progress quickly, and with limited information on the appropriateness of evaluation tools and procedures across services for diverse populations. Standardized outcome assessment protocols are mandated in many p...

Prescription drug misuse.

BACKGROUND Recognising and dealing with patients who seek drugs for nonmedical purposes can be a difficult problem in general practice. 'Prescription shoppers' and patients with chronic nonmalignant pain problems are the main people who constitute this small but problematic group. The main drugs they seek are benzodiazepines and opioids. OBJECTIVE To provide data on current trends in prescrip...

A teacher like me: Does race, ethnicity or gender matter?

Why Does Ethnicity Matter?