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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld +5 more
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Black-White Achievement Gap: Role of Race, School Urbanity, and Parental Education
Pediatric Health, Medicine and Therapeutics, 2021 Shervin Assari,1 Abbas Mardani,2 Maryam Maleki,3 Shanika Boyce,4 Mohsen Bazargan1,5 1Departments of Family Medicine, Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science, Los Angeles, CA 90059, USA; 2Nursing Care Research Center, School of Nursing and ...
Assari S +4 more
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Blacks’ Diminished Return of Education Attainment on Subjective Health; Mediating Effect of Income
Brain Sciences, 2018 Background: Minorities’ Diminished Return (MDR) can be defined as smaller health gains from socioeconomic status (SES) indicators, such as education attainment among ethnic minorities compared to the majority group. The current study tested whether
Shervin Assari
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Protective Effects of Educational Attainment Against Cigarette Smoking; Diminished Returns of American Indians and Alaska Natives in the National Health Interview Survey [PDF]
International Journal of Travel Medicine and Global Health, 2019 Introduction: Although educational attainment is protective against health risk behaviors such as smoking, the Minorities’ Diminished Return theory posits that these protective effects are smaller for ethnic minorities than majority groups.
Shervin Assari, Mohsen Bazargan
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo +9 more
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Missing men and unacknowledged women: Explaining gender disparities in New Zealand’s prime adult age groups 1986 – 2006 [PDF]
, 2010 Questions concerning the widening disparity in numbers of males and females in the prime working age groups in New Zealand’s population have attracted attention from researchers and the media in recent years.
Callister, Paul +2 more
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Population Briefs, Vol. 19, no. 1 [PDF]
, 2013 This special issue of Population Briefs focuses on 60 years of groundbreaking Population Council research. IN THIS ISSUE: Advancing long-acting reversible contraception | Shaping policy and practice: The Council\u27s peer-reviewed journals | Bringing to ...
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Optimal population policy [PDF]
, 1972 For more about the East-West Center, see http://www.eastwestcenter.org/This paper investigates the notion of optimality in population policy through the use of simple analytical and numerical examples.
Arthur, W. Brian +2 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine +17 more
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New Zealand regions, 1986-2001: Population geography [PDF]
, 2005 This paper is primarily concerned with the spatial aspects of population, namely with: (i) patterns of settlement (urban, rural) and attendant population size variations by region, (ii) changes over time between rural and urban areas at a Regional ...
Lindop, J. +3 more
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