[HTML][HTML] Cancer screening in refugees and immigrants: a global perspective

PF Walker, AM Settgast, MB DeSilva - The American Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Clinicians in the United States are trained to screen for cancer based on patient age,
gender, family history, and environmental risk factors such as smoking. These cancers …

Perinatal health outcomes of East African immigrant populations in Victoria, Australia: a population based study

FB Belihu, MA Davey, R Small - BMC pregnancy and childbirth, 2016 - Springer
Abstract Background Sub-Saharan African women are often treated as a single group in
epidemiological studies of immigrant birth outcomes, potentially masking variations across …

Acculturation and cigarette smoking in Hispanic women: A meta-analysis

KK Kondo, JS Rossi, SJ Schwartz… - Journal of Ethnicity in …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
The present study was a random-effects model meta-analysis of 26 studies published
between 1990 and 2010 (k= 32; n= 39,777) that (a) examined the association between …

Associations among maternal childhood socioeconomic status, cord blood IgE levels, and repeated wheeze in urban children

MJ Sternthal, BA Coull, YHM Chiu, S Cohen… - Journal of allergy and …, 2011 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Independent of current socioeconomic status (SES), past maternal SES
might influence asthma outcomes in children. OBJECTIVE: We examined associations …

Effect of length of stay on smoking among Turkish and Eastern European immigrants in Germany—interpretation in the light of the smoking epidemic model and the …

K Reiss, R Schunck, O Razum - International Journal of Environmental …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Background: We analyzed changes in smoking by length of stay among immigrants in
Germany and related them to the “smoking epidemic” model and the acculturation theory …

Smoking during pregnancy among Turkish immigrants in Germany—are there associations with acculturation?

K Reiss, J Breckenkamp, T Borde… - Nicotine & Tobacco …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Introduction: We analyzed the association between different acculturation measures and
smoking among pregnant immigrant women from Turkey and compared smoking rates …

How immigrants adapt their smoking behaviour: comparative analysis among Turkish immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands

K Reiss, O Sauzet, J Breckenkamp, J Spallek… - BMC Public Health, 2014 - Springer
Background Smoking behaviour among immigrants is assumed to converge to that of the
host country's majority population with increasing duration of stay. We compared smoking …

Assessing trends in tobacco cessation in diverse patient populations

VJ Stevens, LI Solberg, SR Bailey… - Nicotine & Tobacco …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Introduction: This study examined change in tobacco use over 4 years among the general
population of patients in six diverse health care organizations using electronic medical …

Cigarettes and the Somali diaspora: tobacco use among Somali adults in Minnesota

KKW Giuliani, O Mire, A Leinberger-Jabari… - American journal of …, 2012 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Since the onset of the Somali civil war in 1991, more than 1 million Somalis
have been displaced from Somalia. Minnesota has the largest Somali population in the US …

The association of smoking with English and Spanish language use as a proxy of acculturation among Mexican-Americans

I Tamí-Maury, CJ Aigner, S Rush, JH Hong… - Journal of immigrant and …, 2017 - Springer
To better characterize the relation of acculturation, based on language use, to smoking
status among Mexican-Americans, a large study sample from an ongoing cohort of Mexican …