Rating neighborhoods for older adult health: results from the African American Health study

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Prostate Cancer Screening in Middle-Aged and Older American Men: Combined Effects of Ethnicity and Years of Schooling

Background: Prostate cancer screening is more commonly utilized by highly educated people. As shown by marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs), the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) such as education on the health outcomes are considerably smaller for ethnic minorities than for Whites. The role of MDRs as a source of ethnic health disparities is, however, still un...

Chronic Kidney Disease, Anxiety and Depression among American Blacks; Does Ethnicity Matter?

Introduction: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is known to be associated with deterioration of mental health. However, it is clear that this link is over and beyond the effects of socio-economic factors and other medical conditions. This study had two aims: 1) to compare the association between CKD and general anxiety disorder (GAD) among the two major ethnic groups of American Bla...

Perception of general and oral health in White and African American adults: assessing the effect of neighborhood socioeconomic conditions.

OBJECTIVES This study investigates the independent and joint effects of family income and neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) on general health and oral health before and after controlling for traditional risk factors in a representative sample of adults aged 18+ years residing in the Detroit tri-county area, Michigan. METHODS Individuals data were obtained through interviews, while neigh...

Explaining variation in health status across space and time: implications for racial and ethnic disparities in self-rated health.

We use the Metropolitan Community Information Center-Metro Survey-a serial cross section of adults residing in the City of Chicago, USA, conducted from 1991 through 1999-in combination with 1990 census data to simultaneously examine the extent to which self-rated health varies across Chicago neighborhoods and across time. Three-level hierarchical logit models are employed to decompose individua...