Understanding Fathering among Native-American Men

Understanding major depressive disorder among middle-aged African American men.

AIM This paper is a report of a study of how a cohort of African American men recognized and expressed symptoms of depression, and how depression affected their lives. BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder has had global financial consequences in the form of healthcare visits, lost work hours, and disruption of family lives. Early recognition of depression and engagement of depressed individua...

Multipartnered fertility among American men.

Using the 2002 (Cycle 6) National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG), which was the first NSFG to interview men, we document the prevalence and correlates of sequential parenthood with different partners (multipartnered fertility) among a representative sample of American men. Nearly 8% of American men aged 15-44 report having had children with more than one partner, with sharp differences by age, ...

Promoting Better Fathering Among Divorced NonResident Fathers

Prostate cancer incidence among American Indian and Alaska Native men, US, 1999-2004.

BACKGROUND American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) men experience lower incidence of prostate cancer than other race/ethnic populations in the US, but racial misclassification of AI/AN men threatens the validity of these estimates. To the authors' knowledge, little is known concerning prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing in AI/AN men. METHODS The authors linked cancer registry data with ...

Serum levels of prostate-specific antigen among Japanese-American and native Japanese men.

BACKGROUND Fourfold to sixfold higher prostate cancer rates in Japanese-American men in the United States compared with Japanese men in Japan have been cited to support a role for environmental risk factors in the etiology of the disease. To examine the hypothesis that part or all of the elevated prostate cancer rates in Japanese-American men may reflect more intensive prostate cancer screening...