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Thursday, January 08, 2009

Major deficit in the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons persists.

30 Oct 2008 INTRODUCTION: Eliminating health care disparities in the United States will require a multifaceted approach that will include increasing diversity in the health care workforce. Historically, the field of medicine, and particularly surgery, has had ... Read more...

Decreasing disparity in liver transplantation among white and Asian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma : California, 1998-2005.

13 Oct 2008 BACKGROUND: A preliminary study using national cancer surveillance data from 1998 through 2002 suggested that there were significant differences between non-Hispanic whites ('whites') and Asian/Pacific Islanders (APIs) in the use of liver ... Read more...

Disparities in self-reported diabetes mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and black Americans in Southeast Michigan.

29 Sep 2008 Diabetes mellitus is an important public health problem that disproportionately affects minorities. Using a cross sectional, convenience sample, we estimated the prevalence of self-reported diabetes for Whites (n = 212), Arabs (n = 1,303), ... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Asian Americans'

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• Major deficit in the number of underrepresented minority academic surgeons persists. 30 Oct 2008
• Decreasing disparity in liver transplantation among white and Asian patients with hepatocellular carcinoma : California, 1998-2005. 13 Oct 2008
• Disparities in self-reported diabetes mellitus among Arab, Chaldean, and black Americans in Southeast Michigan. 29 Sep 2008
• Lay theory of race affects and moderates Asian Americans' responses toward American culture. 29 Sep 2008
• The role of citizenship, employment, and socioeconomic characteristics in health insurance coverage among Asian subgroups in the United States. 29 Sep 2008
• The Lady Windermere syndrome: is there a racial as well as a gender bias? 29 Sep 2008
• Perinatal outcomes among Asian-white interracial couples. 29 Sep 2008
• Performance of BRCA1/2 mutation prediction models in Asian Americans. 6 Sep 2008
• Development of intervention materials for individuals with limited English proficiency: lessons learned from "Colorectal Cancer Screening in Chinese Americans". 30 Aug 2008
• Comparison of time trends in brain central nervous system cancer incidence (1973-97) in East Asia, Europe and USA, from Cancer Incidence in Five Continents Vols IV-VIII. 30 Aug 2008
• Factors affecting practical nursing student attrition. 30 Aug 2008
• Culture and social support. 30 Aug 2008
• Perinatal outcomes among different Asian-American subgroups. 21 Aug 2008
• A piece of my mind. About a boy. 18 Aug 2008
• StatBite: U.S. cancer death rates by race, 2000-2004. 9 Aug 2008
• Marine-derived n-3 fatty acids and atherosclerosis in Japanese, Japanese-American, and white men: a cross-sectional study. 3 Aug 2008
• Omega-3 fatty acids: the "Japanese" factor? 3 Aug 2008
• Development of a health risk factors questionnaire for Chinese and Vietnamese residents of the Houston, Texas area. 30 Jul 2008
• Results from a community-based occupational health survey of Vietnamese-American nail salon workers. 30 Jul 2008
• Development of an ESL curriculum to educate Chinese immigrants about physical activity. 30 Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Asian Americans'

Definition: Persons living in the United States having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent.

Descriptor UI: D001213

Alternative terms: Asian Americans; American, Asian; Americans, Asian; Asian American; Japanese Americans; American, Japanese; Americans, Japanese; Japanese American; Korean Americans; American, Korean; Americans, Korean; Korean American; Chinese Americans; American, Chinese; Americans, Chinese; Chinese American;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; education; history; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology; statistics & numerical data; ethnology; genetics;

Tree Number: M01.686.508.200.100; M01.686.754.225;

History Note: 81

Technical Notes: Asian includes Far East, Southeast Asia, & the Indian subcontinent; despite X refs specify NIM CHINA /ethnol, JAPAN /ethnol, KOREA/ethnol, or other Asiatic country with /ethnol when pertinent