Aims: Ethnicity and culture represent a novel topic in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work because there has not been enough consideration of them in studies of work stress. This paper aims to present a critical review and evaluate recent articles investigating ethnicity in the literature on stress and wellbeing at work to identify limitations of previous research concerning all the ...

BACKGROUND Multimorbidity is common in primary care populations. Within cardiovascular disease, important differences in disease prevalence and risk factor management by ethnicity are recognised. AIM To examine the population burden of cardiovascular multimorbidity and the management of modifiable risk factors by ethnicity. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross-sectional study of general practices (148/...

The human face holds a privileged position in multi-disciplinary research as it conveys much information—demographical attributes (age, race, gender, ethnicity), social signals, emotion expression, and so forth. Studies have shown that due to the distribution of ethnicity/race training datasets, biometric algorithms suffer from “cross race effect”—their performance is better on subjects closer ...

Human facial images provide the demographic information, such as ethnicity and gender. Conversely, ethnicity and gender also play an important role in face-related applications. Image-based ethnicity identification problem is addressed in a machine learning framework. The Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) based scheme is presented for the two-class (Asian vs. non-Asian) ethnicity classificatio...

OBJECTIVE To compare infant race/ethnicity based on birth certificates with parent report of infant race/ethnicity in a survey. DATA SOURCES The 2007 Oklahoma birth certificates and SEED for Oklahoma Kids baseline survey. STUDY DESIGN Using sensitivity scores and positive predictive values, we examined consistency of infant race/ethnicity across two data sources (N = 2,663). DATA COLLECTI...

OBJECTIVE Cancer incidence, treatment, and prognosis show important disparities by race, Hispanic ethnicity, and birthplace, but hospital policies and procedures in obtaining this information are poorly documented. This study documented policies and procedures in a state (Connecticut) with a high-quality population-based cancer registry. METHODS Directors of medical records and/or admissions ...

BACKGROUND To understand racial and ethnic disparities in health care utilization and their potential underlying causes, valid information on race and ethnicity is necessary. However, the validity of pediatric race and ethnicity information in administrative records from large integrated health care systems using electronic medical records is largely unknown. METHODS Information on race and e...

BACKGROUND Information on ethnicity is commonly used by health services and researchers to plan services, ensure equality of access, and for epidemiological studies. In common with other important demographic and clinical data it is often incompletely recorded. This paper presents a method for imputing missing data on the ethnicity of cancer patients, developed for a regional cancer registry in...