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Are sleep patterns influenced by race/ethnicity – a marker of relative advantage or disadvantage? Evidence to date

Nature and Science of Sleep, 2019
Sleep is a fundamental necessity of life. However, sleep health and sleep disorders are not equitably distributed across racial/ethnic groups. In fact, growing research consistently demonstrates that racial/ethnic minorities are more likely to experience,
Dayna A. Johnson, C. Jackson, N. Williams, C. Alcántara   +3 more
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Restaurant Work Experience as Stepping Stone to the Rest of Labour Market: 'Entry to and exit from the restaurant sector among young people of immigrant backgrounds in Sweden'

Nordic Journal of Migration Research, 2013
The restaurant sector is expected to provide start-up jobs for young persons in the labour market in Sweden. This study uses data from the Swedish population and tax register, and follows the routes of employees in the sector from 2003 to 2008.
Susanne Urban
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Challenges with quality of race and ethnicity data in observational databases

J. Am. Medical Informatics Assoc., 2019
OBJECTIVE We sought to assess the quality of race and ethnicity information in observational health databases, including electronic health records (EHRs), and to propose patient self-recording as an improvement strategy.
Fernanda C. G. Polubriaginof, P. Ryan, H. Salmasian, Andrea W. Shapiro, A. Perotte, M. Safford, G. Hripcsak, Shaun Smith, N. Tatonetti, D. Vawdrey   +9 more
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Addressing ethnicity in social care research [PDF]

, 2012
This article surveys recent developments in relation to the dimensions of ethnicity and ethnicdisadvantage in social policy research and practice, with a focus on social care.
Atkin, Karl, Craig, Gary, Vickers, Tom
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Contemporary Buddha’s teaching as a Path to Liberation [PDF]

In Medias Res, 2018
Buddhism is essentially a teaching about liberation – from suffering, ignorance and rebirth. Knowledge of ‘the way things really are’ is considered to be vital in bringing about this emancipation.
Ružica Čičak-Chand
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Non-invasive type 2 diabetes risk scores do not identify diabetes when the cause is β-cell failure: The Africans in America study

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
BackgroundEmerging data suggests that in sub-Saharan Africa β-cell-failure in the absence of obesity is a frequent cause of type 2 diabetes (diabetes). Traditional diabetes risk scores assume that obesity-linked insulin resistance is the primary cause of
Annemarie Wentzel, Annemarie Wentzel, Annemarie Wentzel, Arielle C. Patterson, M. Grace Duhuze Karera, M. Grace Duhuze Karera, M. Grace Duhuze Karera, Zoe C. Waldman, Blayne R. Schenk, Christopher W. DuBose, Anne E. Sumner, Anne E. Sumner, Margrethe F. Horlyck-Romanovsky, Margrethe F. Horlyck-Romanovsky   +13 more
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Cancer Disparities by Race/Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status

Ca, 2004
This article highlights disparities in cancer incidence, mortality, and survival in relation to race/ethnicity, and census data on poverty in the county or census tract of residence.
Elizabeth E. Ward, A. Jemal, V. Cokkinides, Gopal K. Singh, C. Cardinez, Asma Ghafoor, M. Thun   +6 more
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Ethnicity [PDF]

, 2012
As developed in the fields of anthropology and sociology, the concept of ethnicity offers one possible approach to analyzing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt.
Baines, John, Riggs, Christina
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Ancestry versus ethnicity: the complexity and selectivity of Mexican identification in the United States [PDF]

, 2009
Using microdata from the 2000 U.S. Census, we analyze the responses of Mexican Americans to questions that independently elicit their “ethnicity” (or Hispanic origin) and their “ancestry.” We investigate whether different patterns of responses to these ...
Duncan, B., Trejo, S.J.
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Incidence of Parkinson's disease: variation by age, gender, and race/ethnicity.

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2003
The goal of this study was to estimate the incidence of Parkinson's disease by age, gender, and ethnicity. Newly diagnosed Parkinson's disease cases in 1994-1995 were identified among members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program of Northern ...
Stephen Van Den Eeden, Caroline M. Tanner, Allan L. Bernstein, R. Fross, A. Leimpeter, Daniel A Bloch, Lorene M Nelson   +6 more
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