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Implications of ethnic group origin for Israeli women's mental health. 族裔出身对以色列妇女心理健康的影响。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3670-0

Julie Cwikel, Dorit Segal-Engelchin

引用次数: 13

Implications of black immigrant health for U.S. racial disparities in health. 黑人移民健康对美国种族健康差异的影响。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3677-6

Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Michael O Emerson, Alvin Tarlov

{"title":"Implications of black immigrant health for U.S. racial disparities in health.","authors":"Jen'nan Ghazal Read, Michael O Emerson, Alvin Tarlov","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3677-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3677-6","url":null,"abstract":"This paper contributes to a growing understanding of U.S. black-white health disparities by using national-level data to disaggregate the health status of black Americans into the following subgroups: U.S.-born blacks, black immigrants from Africa, black immigrants from the West Indies, and black immigrants from Europe. Using new data on the 2000 and 2001 National Health Interview Surveys (NHIS), the authors compare the status of U.S.- and foreign-born blacks to that of U.S.-born whites on three measures of health. The analysis finds that U.S.-born and European-born blacks have worse self-rated health, higher odds of activity limitation, and higher odds of limitation due to hypertension compared to U.S.-born whites. In contrast, African-born blacks have better health than U.S.-born whites on all three measures, while West Indian-born blacks have poorer self-rated health and higher odds of limitation due to hypertension but lower odds of activity limitation. These findings suggest that grouping together foreign-born blacks misses important variations within this population. Rather than being uniform, the black immigrant health advantage varies by region of birth and by health status measure. The authors conclude by exploring the implications of these findings for researchers, health professionals, and public policy.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"205-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3677-6","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 117

Refugees' perceptions of healthy behaviors. 难民对健康行为的看法。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3675-8

Donelle M Barnes, Nina Almasy

引用次数: 68

Measuring acculturation among male Arab immigrants in the United States: an exploratory study. 衡量美国阿拉伯男性移民的文化适应:一项探索性研究。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3674-9

Declan T Barry

引用次数: 64

Making sense of illness: late-in-life migration as point of departure for elderly Iranian immigrants' explanatory models of illness. 理解疾病:晚年移民作为伊朗老年移民疾病解释模型的出发点。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3672-y

Azita Emami, Sandra Torres

{"title":"Making sense of illness: late-in-life migration as point of departure for elderly Iranian immigrants' explanatory models of illness.","authors":"Azita Emami, Sandra Torres","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3672-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3672-y","url":null,"abstract":"This article is based on data gathered through 60 qualitative interviews conducted within the realm of three research projects that have used \"culture-appropriate lenses\" to study the postmigration situation of late-in-life Iranian immigrants to Sweden. The findings gathered through these studies were interpreted against the backdrop that culturally appropriate nursing theories provide. This meant that it was, at times, these elders' backgrounds as cultural \"others\" that were implicitly used to make sense of the various issues that were brought to the fore by these studies. The particular issue with which this article is concerned is the \"unusualness\" of these elders' explanatory models of illness. Inspired by the concept \"definition of situation\" in the symbolic interactionist perspective and by the feeling that this perspective might bring about a different interpretation of the original findings regarding their understandings of illness and disease, we set out to conduct a secondary analysis of these elders' explanatory models of illness. The findings presented in this article will show how the elderly Iranian immigrants interviewed in these three studies utilize the process of \"late in life migration\" as a point of reference for their understandings of what has caused the illnesses from which they suffered. Hereby we will suggest that the \"unusualness\" of their explanatory models of illness might be best understood if we focus on what they shared as immigrants (i.e., the fact that the process of late-in-life migration has made their culture obsolete) as opposed to what they shared as Iranians (i.e., their culture of origin).","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"153-64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3672-y","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 23

Asthma prevalence and severity in Arab American communities in the Detroit area, Michigan. 密歇根州底特律地区阿拉伯裔美国人社区哮喘患病率和严重程度

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3673-x

Mary Johnson, Jerome Nriagu, Adnan Hammad, Kathryn Savoie, Hikmet Jamil

{"title":"Asthma prevalence and severity in Arab American communities in the Detroit area, Michigan.","authors":"Mary Johnson, Jerome Nriagu, Adnan Hammad, Kathryn Savoie, Hikmet Jamil","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3673-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3673-x","url":null,"abstract":"Immigrant populations provide a unique intersection of cultural and environmental risk factors implicated in asthma etiology. This study focuses on asthma prevalence and severity in 600 Arab American households in metro Detroit, the largest immigrant reception zone for Arab Americans in North America. The survey method introduced a number of novel features: (a) a ranking scheme for the key environmental risk factors for asthma was used to derive an aggregated environmental risk index (ERI) for each household, and (b) an aggregate measure of asthma severity based on symptom frequency and intensity. Environmental risk factors and surrogates for socioeconomic status (SES) were found to be stronger predictors of asthma prevalence than asthma severity, while demographic variables such as English fluency and birth in the United States were better predictors of asthma severity than asthma prevalence. These results suggest that SES variables may be more reflective of environmental exposures in communities involved in this study, while English fluency and birth in the United States may be linked to health care access and utilization behavior that can influence the asthma management. We also found a significant relationship between asthma prevalence and degree of acculturation. Asthma prevalence was highest among moderately acculturated immigrants compared with new immigrants and those who were well acculturated, suggesting that among Arab Americans in the Detroit area, risk factors associated with new immigrant status are replaced by \"western\" risk factors as the population becomes more acculturated.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"165-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3673-x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115009","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 24

"It's like playing with your destiny": Bosnian immigrants' views of advance directives and end-of-life decision-making. “这就像在玩弄自己的命运”:波斯尼亚移民对预先指示和临终决定的看法。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3676-7

H Russell Searight, Jennifer Gafford

{"title":"\"It's like playing with your destiny\": Bosnian immigrants' views of advance directives and end-of-life decision-making.","authors":"H Russell Searight, Jennifer Gafford","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3676-7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3676-7","url":null,"abstract":"Patient autonomy is a primary value in US health care. It is assumed that patients want to be fully and directly informed about serious health conditions and want to engage in advance planning about medical care at the end-of-life. Written advance directives and proxy decision-makers are vehicles to promote autonomy when patients are no longer able to represent their wishes. Cross-cultural studies have raised questions about the universal acceptance of these health care values among all ethnicities. In the current investigation, Bosnian immigrants were interviewed about their views of physician-patient communication, advance directives, and locus of decision-making in serious illness. Many of the respondents indicated that they did not want to be directly informed of a serious illness. There was an expressed preference for physician- or family-based health care decisions. Advance directives and formally appointed proxies were typically seen as unnecessary and inconsistent with many respondents' personal values. The findings suggest that the value of individual autonomy and control over the health care decisions may not be applicable to cultures with a collectivist orientation.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"195-203"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3676-7","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 42

Stress, coping, and health: a comparison of Mexican immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. 压力、应对与健康:墨西哥移民、墨西哥裔美国人和非西班牙裔白人的比较。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3678-5

Tillman Farley, Al Galves, L Miriam Dickinson, Maria de Jesus Diaz Perez

{"title":"Stress, coping, and health: a comparison of Mexican immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic whites.","authors":"Tillman Farley, Al Galves, L Miriam Dickinson, Maria de Jesus Diaz Perez","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3678-5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3678-5","url":null,"abstract":"Mexican immigrants, Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic white Americans all face different stressors. Stress-coping strategies may vary for each group as well. We compared relationships among perceived stress, stress-coping strategies, and health-related quality of life (HRQL) in a rural sample of Mexican citizens living in the United States, Mexican-Americans, and non-Hispanic whites. Health-related quality of life and stress-coping styles varied among the three groups. Mexican citizens reported significantly better physical functioning than did non-Hispanic whites or Mexican-Americans. Mexican-Americans reported significantly better mental health functioning than did non-Hispanic whites or Mexican citizens. Mexican citizens were more likely to use positive reframing, denial, and religion, and less likely to use substance abuse and self-distraction, as stress-coping strategies. Stress-coping style may be a potentially modifiable predictor of physical and mental HRQL, and may account for part of the Hispanic health paradox.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"213-20"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3678-5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 227

Medical complaints among Iraqi American refugees with mental disorders. 患有精神疾病的伊拉克裔美国难民的医疗投诉。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-07-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-3671-z

Hikmet Jamil, Julie Hakim-Larson, Mohamed Farrag, Talib Kafaji, Laith H Jamil, Adnan Hammad

{"title":"Medical complaints among Iraqi American refugees with mental disorders.","authors":"Hikmet Jamil, Julie Hakim-Larson, Mohamed Farrag, Talib Kafaji, Laith H Jamil, Adnan Hammad","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-3671-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-3671-z","url":null,"abstract":"The Gulf War in 1991 resulted in an influx of refugees from Iraq to the United States and to other regions of the world. The purpose of this study was to describe the self-reported medical complaints of Iraqi American refugees who were seeking mental health services in southeastern Michigan. We anticipated that the frequency and pattern of medical symptoms would differ from that reported in the literature on United States Gulf War veterans or other Arab Americans who immigrated to the U.S. in the 1990s. Potential reasons for such differences include indirect effects, such as neglect of general health prior to and during the war, or direct effects, such as the impact of environmental changes from the war itself. As part of a larger study on the health of refugees from Iraq, self-reported medical conditions and symptoms were analyzed in a sample of 116 adult Iraqi immigrants (46 male, 70 female) who were seeking or already receiving outpatient mental health services (n = 87) or treatment in a partial hospitalization program (n = 29). Measures were translated into Arabic and administered in an interview format by one of two bilingual mental health workers. The results were consistent with other studies on refugees in which the number of medical complaints reported was relatively high. Discussion centers on the importance of addressing the specific medical needs of refugees in general, and of the Iraqi refugees in particular, and on how they may be better served within our primary health care systems.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 3","pages":"145-52"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-3671-z","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25115008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 64

Susceptibility of elderly Asian immigrants to persuasion with respect to participation in research. 老年亚洲移民在参与研究方面对说服的敏感性。

Journal of immigrant health Pub Date : 2005-04-01 DOI: 10.1007/s10903-005-2642-8

Doug Brugge, Alison Kole, Weibo Lu, Aviva Must

{"title":"Susceptibility of elderly Asian immigrants to persuasion with respect to participation in research.","authors":"Doug Brugge, Alison Kole, Weibo Lu, Aviva Must","doi":"10.1007/s10903-005-2642-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-005-2642-8","url":null,"abstract":"Familism, respect for authority, and a sense of shame/pride are cultural characteristics that might influence research participation of Asian Americans. We compared 79 elderly Asian immigrants, most of whom immigrated from China or Hong Kong, with 58 elders who were not Asian and mostly not immigrants. Responding to hypothetical situations presented on a self-administered questionnaire, the Asian group professed to be more likely to be influenced by a request from a son/daughter, landlord, physician, or advertisement (p<0.001) and by a monetary incentive (p=0.05). Multivariate adjustment for potential confounders attenuated the strength of these relations, but except in the case of the monetary offer, differences remained statistically significant. Within the Asian group, multivariate logistic regression modeling indicated that years lived in the US was associated with more likelihood of refusing requests to participate in research. We conclude that acculturation or assimilation into American society may build resistance to pressure to participate in research. Our findings also suggest that elderly Asian immigrants may need additional protections to achieve truly informed consent.","PeriodicalId":84997,"journal":{"name":"Journal of immigrant health","volume":"7 2","pages":"93-101"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10903-005-2642-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25023465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 38