Prostate Cancer Screening in Middle-Aged and Older American Men: Combined Effects of Ethnicity and Years of Schooling [PDF]
Hospital Practices and Research, 2020 Background: Prostate cancer screening is more commonly utilized by highly educated people. As shown by marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs), the effects of socioeconomic status (SES) such as education on the health outcomes are considerably ...
Shervin Assari
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Lifestyle, psychological well-being, and body mass index of indigenous women
Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, 2022 : Lifestyle, psychological well-being, and body mass index of indigenous women. Introduction. Obesity is more common in women and has also been found to be present in indigenous populations.
Yolanda Campos-Uscanga +6 more
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Comparative Analysis of the Approaches to Living Standards: Ukraine and Poland [PDF]
Problemi Ekonomiki, 2019 The aim of the article is to identify the main directions to improve the regulatory framework for ensuring the living standard of Ukraine’s population. The approaches to the assessment of the living standard in Ukraine and Poland are analyzed.
Levanda Olena M.
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Social Determinants of Cigarette Smoking among American Women during Pregnancy
Women, 2021 Educational attainment is among the most substantial protective factors against cigarette smoking, including during pregnancy. Although Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) of educational attainment, defined as weaker protective effect of education for ...
Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce
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Salud Pública de México, 2022 This manuscript proposes a novel version of an academic program for community outreach in Native populations of Bangladesh. The curricular content was designed to gather and comprehensively understand community health experiences, and the design ...
Sabina Faiz-Rashid, Mikhail Idris-Islam
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Second-Hand Smoke Exposure at Home in the United States; Minorities’ Diminished Returns [PDF]
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 2019 Introduction: Educational attainment and poverty status are two strong socioeconomic status (SES) indicators that protect individuals against exposure to second-hand smoke.
Shervin Assari, Mohsen Bazargan
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Diminished Health Returns of Educational Attainment Among Immigrant Adults in the United States
Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2020 Objectives: Marginalization-related diminished returns (MDRs) refer to weaker health effects of educational attainment for socially marginalized groups compared to the socially privileged groups.
Shervin Assari +5 more
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Educational Attainment Better Increases the Chance of Breast Physical Exam for Non-Hispanic Than Hispanic American Women: National Health Interview Survey [PDF]
Hospital Practices and Research, 2019 Background: The Minorities’ Diminished Returns (MDRs) theory suggests that the health effect of educational attainment is considerably smaller for members of racial and ethnic minority groups than for Whites.
Shervin Assari, Mohsen Bazargan
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High Prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in an Indigenous Community of the Colombian Amazon Region
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2021 Introduction. COVID-19 is a pathology caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported more than 225 million cases and 4.5 million deaths worldwide.
Héctor Serrano-Coll +8 more
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Neurology International, 2021 Introduction: Although the putamen has a significant role in reward-seeking and motivated behaviors, including eating and food-seeking, minorities’ diminished returns (MDRs) suggest that individual-level risk and protective factors have weaker effects ...
Shervin Assari, Shanika Boyce
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