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The Role of Minority-Serving Institutions in National College Completion Goals [PDF]

, 2012
Outlines Lumina's work with minority-serving institutions to boost completion rates, especially among men of color, by building capacity for data collection and analysis, collective advocacy, developmental education policy and practice, and ...
Noel Harmon
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The impact of culturally competent diabetes care interventions for improving diabetes-related outcomes in ethnic minority groups : a systematic review [PDF]

, 2012
Aim  To examine the evidence on culturally competent interventions tailored to the needs of people with diabetes from ethnic minority groups. Methods  MEDLINE (NHS Evidence), CINAHL and reference lists of retrieved papers were searched from inception ...
Cannaby, A. M., Sandhu, Harbinder, Sturt, Jackie, Zeh, Peter   +3 more
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DELP Treatment on Vision and Retinal Microcirculation in Patients With Acute Ischemic Stroke: Report of Five Cases and Literature Review

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The delipid extracorporeal lipoprotein filter from plasma (DELP) treatment can effectively reduce blood lipid, increase blood flow, and improve neurological deficits in patients with acute ischemic stroke (AIS). However, its effect on vision and retinal microcirculation in stroke patients has never been reported.
Ning Li, Ronghua Hong, Hua You, Feiping Xu, Qingjun Zhang, Yiwen Lin, Yuting Su, Danmei Lan, Lingjing Jin, Junhui She   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Racial/ethnic differences in the associations between trust in the U.S. healthcare system and willingness to test for and vaccinate against COVID-19

BMC Public Health
Background Trust in the healthcare system may impact adherence to recommended healthcare practices, including willingness to test for and vaccinate against COVID-19. This study examined racial/ethnic differences in the associations between trust in the U.
Judy Nanaw, Juliana S. Sherchan, Jessica R. Fernandez, Paula D. Strassle, Wizdom Powell, Allana T. Forde   +5 more
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Russians, Refugees and Europeans: What shapes the discourse of the Conservative People’s Party of Estonia? [PDF]

, 2017
The Conservative Peoples’ Party of Estonia (EKRE) presents a unique case in the study of far-right parties for two reasons. First, the ‘others’ to which they juxtapose Estonians are the Russian-speaking minority, who are white, Christian, and to a large ...
Wierenga, Louis
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A Comparative Study of Cerebral Oxygenation During Exercise in Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Patients

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Cognitive impairment and exercise intolerance are common in dialysis patients. Cerebral perfusion and oxygenation play a major role in both cognitive function and exercise execution; HD session per se aggravates cerebral ischemia in this population. This study aimed to compare cerebral oxygenation and perfusion at rest and in mild
Marieta P. Theodorakopoulou, Konstantina Dipla, Danai Faitatzidou, Fotini Iatridi, Areti Georgiou, Artemios Karagiannidis, Erasmia Sampani, Chrysostomos Dimitriadis, Aggelos Koutlas, Andreas Zafeiridis, Pantelis Sarafidis   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Hispanic/Latino ethnic subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports
Hispanic/Latino populations experienced disproportionate exposure to depression risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. While aggregated data confirm the risks of depressive symptoms among Hispanic/Latino individuals, little research uses ...
Maryam Elhabashy, Jolyna Chiangong, Kevin Villalobos, Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, David Adzrago, Faustine Williams   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hypertension and Diabetes Status by Patterns of Stress in Older Adults From the US Health and Retirement Study: A Latent Class Analysis

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2022
Background Hypertension and diabetes disproportionately affect older non‐Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults in the United States. Chronic stress may partially explain these disparities. This study identified underlying stress profiles of older US adults,
Jessica R. Fernandez, Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, Faustine Williams, Natalie Slopen, Allana T. Forde   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Access to interpreting services in England: secondary analysis of national data [PDF]

, 2009
Background: Overcoming language barriers to health care is a global challenge. There is great linguistic diversity in the major cities in the UK with more than 300 languages, excluding dialects, spoken by children in London alone.
A Bhandari, Aparna Shankar, AR Green, B Erens, C Free, C Free, D Jones, DH Taylor, K Sproston, K Sproston, LS Karliner, M Lakhani, M Marmot, M Stewart, Nick Freemantle, P Aspinall, P Baker, Paramjit S Gill, PH Chang, PL Ritter, PS Gill, R Carr-Hill, Terry Quirke, TM Tocher, U Ozolins, Z Alexander   +25 more
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By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source