We used the 2008-2010 American Community Survey Micro-data Sample (N = 9,093,077) to estimate disability and health insurance rates for children and adults in detailed racial/ethnic, immigrant, and socioeconomic groups in the USA. Prevalence and adjusted odds derived from logistic regression were used to examine social inequalities. Disability rates varied from 1.4% for Japanese children to 6.8...

Cultural psychiatry research in the UK comprises a broad range of diverse methodologies, academic disciplines, and subject areas. Methodologies range from epidemiological to anthropological/ethnographic to health services research; mixed methods research is becoming increasingly popular, as are public health and health promotional topics. After briefly outlining the history of cultural psychiat...


 Third wave of COVID-19 is thought to be intensifying in Pakistan March 2021. It was confirmed by government officials that the spread started from areas where many Pakistanis UK were residing. Genome sequencing coronavirus National Institute Health, revealed it strain has spreading country.1,2 By 25, 2021 cases COVID 640,988 with 37,985 active cases, 14,028 deaths and 588, 975 recoveries...

ABSTRACT: Globally, all environmental sectors are threatened by climate change, most especially to the food and agriculture sectors. Pakistan is a developing country that vulnerable extreme harsh climatic conditions, in Southeast Asia. Climate change has often adverse effects on because it affected severe weather conditions. Although, some studies have reported farmers’ perceptiveness regarding...

The year 2020 has been an unusual due to the pandemic and related issues, during which newspapers have most impactful medium for communication. purpose of this research is investigate how covid-19 visually represented verbally communicated readers in Pakistan America through newspapers. objectives study are social identities given participants pictures secondly, experienced verbal news reports ...

Numerical quantity seems to affect the response in any task that involves numbers, even in tasks that do not demand access to quantity (e.g., perceptual tasks). That is, readers seem to activate quantity representations upon the mere presentation of integers. One important piece of evidence in favor of this view comes from the finding of a distance effect in perceptual tasks: When one compares ...

OBJECTIVES To establish reference norms of lung function parameters for healthy Sri Lankan Tamil young adults. DESIGN AND SETTING Cross sectional study of Tamil students at the Faculty of Medicine, Jaffna. MEASUREMENTS Healthy non smoking students of Sri Lankan Tamil ethnic group were enrolled. Age, height, weight, BMI and spirometric measurements (Micro Quark) were recorded in 267 particip...

Type 2 diabetes is extremely common in South Asians, e.g. in men from Pakistani and Indian populations it is about three times as likely as in the general population in England, despite similarities in body mass index. Lifestyle interventions reduce the incidence of diabetes. Trials in Europe and North America have not, however, reported on the impact on South Asian populations separately or pr...

Changing Patterns of Ethnic Minority Self-Employment in Britain: Evidence from Census Microdata The over-representation of certain ethnic minority and immigrant groups in self-employment is, in common with other developed countries, a notable feature of the UK labour market. Compared to substantial growth in self-employment in the 1980s, the 1990s saw overall selfemployment rates plateau. Despi...