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The life history interview method: applications to intervention development.

Health education & behavior : the official publication of the Society for Public Health Education

Goldman R, Hunt MK, Allen JD, Hauser S, Emmons K, Maeda M, Sorensen G.
PMID: 14582598
Health Educ Behav. 2003 Oct;30(5):564-81. doi: 10.1177/1090198103254393.

There is an urgent need to develop and test health promotion strategies that both address health disparities and elucidate the full impact of social, cultural, economic, institutional, and political elements on people's lives. Qualitative research methods, such as life...

Assumptions about culture in discourse on ethnic minority health.

Communication & medicine

Jaeger K.
PMID: 24851509
Commun Med. 2013;10(2):141-51.

This paper is interested in the way the concept of culture is deployed in documents aimed at investigating, informing on and promoting aspects of ethnic minority health. Within a health-political discourse focusing increasingly on individual lifestyles, ethnic minority health...

Mujeres Fuertes y Corazones Saludables: adaptation of the StrongWomen -healthy hearts program for rural Latinas using an intervention mapping approach.

BMC public health

Perry CK, McCalmont JC, Ward JP, Menelas HK, Jackson C, De Witz JR, Solanki E, Seguin RA.
PMID: 29284432
BMC Public Health. 2017 Dec 28;17(1):982. doi: 10.1186/s12889-017-4842-2.

OBJECTIVE: To describe our use of intervention mapping as a systematic method to adapt an evidence-based physical activity and nutrition program to reflect the needs of rural Latinas.METHODS: An intervention mapping process involving six steps guided the adaptation of...

Mind the gap: The health advantages that accompany parental marriage vary by maternal nativity.

Population studies

Sigle W, Goisis A.
PMID: 31570057
Popul Stud (Camb). 2019 Nov;73(3):369-386. doi: 10.1080/00324728.2019.1654613. Epub 2019 Oct 01.

Using data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS), we examine whether and how the health benefits of having two biological parents in a continuous marital relationship vary by maternal nativity and ethnicity, comparing UK-born White mothers with: (1)...

Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health Behaviors: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.

American journal of preventive medicine

Whitaker KM, Jacobs DR, Kershaw KN, Demmer RT, Booth JN, Carson AP, Lewis CE, Goff DC, Lloyd-Jones DM, Gordon-Larsen P, Kiefe CI.
PMID: 29776780
Am J Prev Med. 2018 Jul;55(1):63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.03.017. Epub 2018 Jun 18.

INTRODUCTION: There are known racial differences in cardiovascular health behaviors, including smoking, physical activity, and diet quality. A better understanding of these differences may help identify intervention targets for reducing cardiovascular disease disparities. This study examined whether socioeconomic, psychosocial,...

The impact of familism on physical and mental health among Hispanics in the United States.

Health psychology review

Katiria Perez G, Cruess D.
PMID: 25053010
Health Psychol Rev. 2014;8(1):95-127. doi: 10.1080/17437199.2011.569936. Epub 2011 May 25.

The rapidly expanding number of Hispanics living in USA has increased the need for their inclusion in research on physical and mental health. Current studies that have explored health outcomes among Hispanics have often noted an 'epidemiological paradox', in...

Conceptual considerations in studies of cultural influences on health behaviors.

Preventive medicine

Unger JB, Schwartz SJ.
PMID: 23046899
Prev Med. 2012 Nov;55(5):353-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.09.024. Epub 2012 Oct 06.

No abstract available.

Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health Behaviors: The Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults Study.

American journal of preventive medicine

Whitaker KM, Jacobs DR, Kershaw KN, Demmer RT, Booth JN, Carson AP, Lewis CE, Goff DC, Lloyd-Jones DM, Gordon-Larsen P, Kiefe CI.
PMID: 29776780
Am J Prev Med. 2018 Jul;55(1):63-71. doi: 10.1016/j.amepre.2018.03.017. Epub 2018 Jun 18.

INTRODUCTION: There are known racial differences in cardiovascular health behaviors, including smoking, physical activity, and diet quality. A better understanding of these differences may help identify intervention targets for reducing cardiovascular disease disparities. This study examined whether socioeconomic, psychosocial,...

Implementing a Targeted and Culturally Tailored Policy, Systems, and Environmental Nutrition Strategy to Reach Korean Americans.

Progress in community health partnerships : research, education, and action

Kim SS, Rideout C, Han HW, Lee L, Kwon SC.
PMID: 29606695
Prog Community Health Partnersh. 2018;12(1):73-81. doi: 10.1353/cpr.2018.0008.

THE PROBLEM: Policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches have been shown to be effective in increasing rates of healthy behaviors in the overall population, but are not always effective in reaching racial and ethnic minority groups, including Korean Americans...

Latina and Non-Latina Mothers' Perceived Health Barriers and Benefits and Their Relationship to Children's Health Behaviors.

Maternal and child health journal

Highland KB, Lundahl A, Kidwell KM, Hankey M, Caballos M, McChargue D.
PMID: 27003152
Matern Child Health J. 2016 Jun;20(6):1305-13. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-1932-1.

Objectives Disparities exist in rates of overweight/obesity between Latino and non-Latino populations. Attention should be given to risk factors that may be modifiable through interventions involving both the parent and child. The current study sought to identify ethnic differences...

Intergenerational transmission of the effects of acculturation on health in Hispanic Americans: a fetal programming perspective.

American journal of public health

Fox M, Entringer S, Buss C, DeHaene J, Wadhwa PD.
PMID: 25905831
Am J Public Health. 2015 Jul;105:S409-23. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2015.302571. Epub 2015 Apr 23.

We propose a transdisciplinary, life span framework for examining the underlying cause of the observed intergenerational decline in health among Hispanic Americans. We focus on acculturation, and we posit that acculturation-related processes in first-generation Hispanic immigrant mothers may affect...

Examining Place As a Social Determinant of Health: Association Between Diabetes and US Geographic Region Among Non-Hispanic Whites and a Diverse Group of Hispanic/Latino Men.

Family & community health

González G, Wilson-Frederick Wilson SM, Thorpe RJ.
PMID: 26291192
Fam Community Health. 2015 Oct-Dec;38(4):319-31. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000081.

Place (geographic location), birthplace, the number of years in the United States, and gender are important social determinants of health essential to our understanding of health disparities. In this study, we examined the association between place and diabetes in...

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