BACKGROUND African-American men have a greater incidence of and mortality from prostate carcinoma compared with white men, and they are less likely to receive definitive therapy (radical prostatectomy or external beam radiation therapy). During the 1990s, the use of brachytherapy increased; however, its influence on racial and ethnic prostate carcinoma treatment trends remains unclear. The obje...

As a consequence of changing immigration policy over the past 50 years, contemporary Australia has a culturally diverse population. Focusing on Brisbane, one of Australia’s smaller immigrant-receiving cities but where some 19 per cent of the population is born overseas, this study examines attitudes to and perceptions of culturally different ethnic (non-Anglo) immigrant groups. Emphasis is plac...

The United States has become progressively more multicultural, with the ethnic population growing at record rates. The US Census Bureau projects that, by the year 2056, greater than 50% of the US population will be of non-Caucasian descent. Ethnic patients have different cosmetic concerns and natural features that are unique. The cosmetic concerns of ethnic patients also differ as the result of...

Improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change This paper presents an overview of teenagers’ aspirations for higher levels of education during the recent economic recession. We analyse the responses of 4899 young people aged 10 to 15, who participated in the UK Household Longitudinal Study in 2009-10. The timing of the survey is especially significant given...

This paper presents the final results of an acoustic study of ethno-phonetic differentiation among native varieties of English spoken in Montreal, Canada. The preliminary results, published in Boberg (2004), gave a tentative picture of phonetic differentiation among the three largest ethnic groups in the Montreal English speech community: people of British/Irish, Italian and Ashkenazi Jewish et...

BACKGROUND Prior studies have documented racial and ethnic disparities in hospitalization among patients with heart failure (HF). However, racial/ethnic differences in trajectories of hospitalization following the diagnosis of HF have not been well characterized. This study examined racial/ethnic differences in individual-level trajectories of hospitalization in older adults with diagnosed HF. ...

he current debate about health care reform has centered primarily on controlling the cost of health care and health insurance access. The third essential component of health policy — health care quality — must be addressed as well. Despite a lack of media attention, health care quality initiatives are significant components of health care reform. However, racial and ethnic health care dispariti...