The prevalence of most adult psychiatric disorders varies across racial/ethnic groups and has important implications for prevention and intervention efforts. Research on racial/ethnic differences in the prevalence of internalizing and externalizing symptoms and disorders in adolescents has been less consistent or generally lacking. The current study examined the prevalence of these symptom grou...

OBJECTIVES To compare normative beliefs about sexual health in young men and women from black Caribbean, black African, and white ethnic groups in order to better understand ethnic inequalities in sexual health. METHODS Focus group discussions with young people living in an area with known high prevalence of gonorrhoea and chlamydia. Groups were stratified by sex and self defined ethnicity. ...

Rulers of weakly institutionalized states constantly fear coup attempts. The risk of coups may lead rulers to exclude certain ethnic groups from power—despite creating incentives for excluded groups to rebel against the government. But under what conditions do leaders perceive strong threats? Focusing on post-independence SubSaharan Africa, this paper argues that leaders of countries containing...

Social development undoubtedly requires people participation in different domains. It seems without participation, we cannot achieve a people-centered, inclusive and sustainable social development. In the social development process, all citizens with various ethnic and religious interests are able to affect on all the social phenomena and variables, based on their competencies and mental capaci...

Several studies have evaluated the movements of large populations to the Indian subcontinent; however, the ancient geographic origins of smaller ethnic communities are not clear. Although historians have attempted to identify the origins of some ethnic groups, the evidence is typically anecdotal and based upon what others have written before. In this study, recent developments in DNA science we...

background: to evaluate the prevalence of obesity and some related factors in the villages around gorgan which is a multi-racial and capital city of golestan province, northern iran. methods: this was a cross-sectional study with 2854 women participated. interviewers recorded the data using the question­naire. subjects were weighed on scales and had their height, waist, and hip circumferences. ...

the 35delg mutation in the connexin 26 gene (cx26), at the dnfb1 locus is the most common mutation in the patients with autosomal recessive non-syndromic hearing loss (arnshl). we have studied a total of 224 deaf cases from 189 families in two populations of iran (sistan va bluchestan and hormozgan provinces) by prescreening nested pcr, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and consequent direct s...

Background: Human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are polymorphic cell surface proteins. Distribution of HLA alleles vary among different racial and ethnic populations in unrelated stem cell registries. Determination of HLA allele frequencies in different ethnic groups is useful for population genetic analyses. Materials and Methods: Based on data available from the Iranian Stem Cell Donor Registry...

BACKGROUND The population in Norway has become multi-ethnic due to migration from Asia and Africa over the recent decades. The aim of the present study was to explore differences in the self-reported prevalence of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and associated risk factors by diabetes status in five ethnic minority groups compared to ethnic Norwegians. METHODS Pooled data from three population-b...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Low socioeconomic status has been linked to high incidence of stroke in industrialized countries; therefore, reducing socioeconomic disparities is an important goal of health policy. The evidence on migrant groups is, however, limited and inconsistent. We assessed socioeconomic inequalities in relation to stroke incidence among major ethnic groups in the Netherlands. ME...