OBJECTIVE We describe patterns of residential crowding among older Hispanics and non-Hispanic Whites. We also examine hypotheses about the relationship of residential crowding with assimilation (language and duration of residence) and housing market characteristics. METHODS We employ a multilevel research design, using data from the 2000 U.S. Census of Population. Hierarchical linear models a...

In a rural Midwestern community sample (n=273), large proportions of Somalis and Whites ranked overall health as "Very good" (57% 50%, respectively), while Hispanics (42%) considered it "Good". Across all groups, most are either "Happy" or happy" with their jobs—64%, 91%, 83%—or families—85%, 93%, 91.6%— reference to Hispanics, Somalis, Whites, respectively. When asked “In the past 30 days, how...

OBJECTIVES To examine the association between race/ethnicity and prevalence of self-reported hypertension in adults who participated in the 2005 Community Health Survey. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study of self-reported hypertension in New York City. Logistic regression was fitted to estimate the strength of the association between race/ethnicity and hypertension before and after adju...

Changes in political leadership drive large changes economic optimism. We exploit the surprise 2016 election of Trump to identify effects a shift power on one most consequential household decisions: whether have child. Republican-leaning counties experience sharp and persistent increase fertility relative Democratic counties: 1.1 2.6 percentage point difference annual births, depending intensit...

This study examines the variation in surname analysis and geocoding, and their association with self-identified Hispanics in an HMO. We collected ethnicity data from three studies, and employed Spanish surname software and census tract level geocoding to create proxies for Hispanic ethnicity. We computed sensitivity, specificity, and estimated multivariate logistic regression models to examine ...

OBJECTIVE This study investigates the association between ethnic minority status and receiving a screening mammogram within the past 2 years among American women over 50. METHOD The findings from 33 studies identified from interdisciplinary research databases (1980 to 2006) were synthesized. Separate pooled analyses compared white non-Hispanics to African Americans (28 outcomes), Hispanics (1...

OBJECTIVES Using subsequent all-cause mortality as a yardstick for retrospective health, this study assessed the comparability of self-rated health (SRH) between non-Hispanic whites and Hispanics. METHODS Based on longitudinal data from 6,870 white and 886 Hispanic respondents aged between 51 and 61 in the 1992 Health and Retirement Study, we related SRH in 1992 to risk of mortality in the 19...

Abstract Introduction Short sleep (< 7 hours of sleep/24 hr. period) duration is associated with unhealthy cholesterol levels, a significant cardiovascular risk marker. Precious epidemiological studies indicate that Hispanics are at increased for hypercholesteremia. However, little known about whether contributes to high among Hispanics. We sought investigate the following: 1) Examine pr...