نتایج جستجو برای: ethnic groups

تعداد نتایج: 758355  

Journal: :AJS; American journal of sociology 2016
Sanne Smith Frank Van Tubergen Ineke Maas Daniel A McFarland

Ethnically diverse settings provide opportunities for interethnic friendship but can also increase the preference for same-ethnic friendship. Therefore, same-ethnic friendship preferences, or ethnic homophily, can work at cross-purposes with policy recommendations to diversify ethnic representation in social settings. In order to effectively overcome ethnic segregation, we need to identify thos...

Journal: :European journal of public health 2014
Umar Z Ikram Anton E Kunst Majda Lamkaddem Karien Stronks

BACKGROUND Current disease burden estimates do not provide evidence across different ethnic groups. This study aims to assess the disease burden as measured by the disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) for six ethnic groups in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for 2011 and 2030. METHODS The DALYs were calculated by combining three components: disease-/sex-/age-specific DALYs per person; disease-sp...

Journal: :Du Bois review : social science research on race 2011
Salma Shariff-Marco Nancy Breen Hope Landrine Bryce B Reeve Nancy Krieger Gilbert C Gee David R Williams Vickie M Mays Ninez A Ponce Margarita Alegría Benmei Liu Gordon Willis Timothy P Johnson

While it is clear that self-reported racial/ethnic discrimination is related to illness, there are challenges in measuring self-reported discrimination or unfair treatment. In the present study, we evaluate the psychometric properties of a self-reported instrument across racial/ ethnic groups in a population-based sample, and we test and interpret findings from applying two different widely-use...

Journal: :European journal of public health 2011
Vincent Lorant Raj Bhopal

BACKGROUND Ethnic-minority health is a public health priority in Europe. This study compares strategies for tackling ethnic inequalities in health from two countries, Scotland and Belgium. METHODS We compared the countries using the Whitehead framework. Official policy documents were retrieved and reviewed and two databases related to immigrant health policies were also used. Ethnic inequalit...

Journal: :Child: care, health and development 2010
V Mc Manus E Savage

Both diabetes and asthma are increasingly being recognized as health problems for ethnic groups. Because of cultural differences, ethnicity is reported to be a risk factor for poorer quality in health care, disease management and disease control. Ethnic groups are at risk for poorer quality of life and increased disease complications when compared with non-ethnic counterparts living in the same...

2014
Kassahun Tesfaye Yohannes Petros Mebeaselassie Andargie

ABO; Blood groups; Population genetics; Rh (D) Abstract Background: Frequency distribution of blood groups is important as it is used in modern medicine, genetic research, anthropology, and tracing ancestral relations of humans. The ABO and Rh blood groups are the most important blood groups despite the long list of several other blood groups discovered so far. Aim of the study: To study and do...

Journal: :Journal of biopharmaceutical statistics 2002
Yi-Hau Chen Mey Wang

When a new investigational medicine is intended to be applied to populations with different ethnic backgrounds, a stratified comparative phase III trial using ethnic groups as strata may be conducted to assess the influence of ethnic factors on clinical outcomes of this new medicine. In this paper, based on a binomial model with odds ratio as the measure of the treatment effect, we derive the s...

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