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This special issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) addresses improving the conditions that promote mental health and prevent mental disorders.
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This special issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) addresses improving the conditions that promote mental health and prevent mental disorders.
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The Latino population is one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States, with the majority being of Mexican descent. Whether immigrating to the U.S. is positive for the well-being of Mexican immigrants and future generations is an important question. Authors examined how nativity status and quality of life indicators relate to life satisfaction among foreign-born and U.S.-born Mexican descent Latinos living in California.
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The Latino population is one of the largest immigrant groups in the United States, with the majority being of Mexican descent. Whether immigrating to the U.S. is positive for the well-being of Mexican immigrants and future generations is an important question. Authors examined how nativity status and quality of life indicators relate to life satisfaction among foreign-born and U.S.-born Mexican descent Latinos living in California.
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Racial/ethnic minorities, especially black Americans, suffered a disproportionate impact from COVID-19 compared with others. COVID-19 has had a particularly deleterious effect on black children and adolescents. Their COVID-19 mortality rates are twice as high as those seen in white children and adolescents. Many federal data sets are currently missing key demographic and social disadvantage measurements essential for equitable data-driven health decisions.
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Racial/ethnic minorities, especially black Americans, suffered a disproportionate impact from COVID-19 compared with others. COVID-19 has had a particularly deleterious effect on black children and adolescents. Their COVID-19 mortality rates are twice as high as those seen in white children and adolescents. Many federal data sets are currently missing key demographic and social disadvantage measurements essential for equitable data-driven health decisions.
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Precision public health offers the promise of improving health equity by delivering the “right intervention at the right time, every time to the right population.” But the COVID-19 pandemic underscored how far the United States is from delivering on that promise, especially for marginalized urban and rural American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.
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Precision public health offers the promise of improving health equity by delivering the “right intervention at the right time, every time to the right population.” But the COVID-19 pandemic underscored how far the United States is from delivering on that promise, especially for marginalized urban and rural American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations.
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This article reports the outcome of a project to develop and assess a predictive model of vulnerability indicators for COVID-19 infection in Los Angeles County. Multiple data sources were used to construct four indicators for ZIP code tabulation areas: (1) pre-existing health condition, (2) barriers to accessing health care, (3) built environment risk, and (4) the CDC’s social vulnerability.
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This article reports the outcome of a project to develop and assess a predictive model of vulnerability indicators for COVID-19 infection in Los Angeles County. Multiple data sources were used to construct four indicators for ZIP code tabulation areas: (1) pre-existing health condition, (2) barriers to accessing health care, (3) built environment risk, and (4) the CDC’s social vulnerability.
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The purpose of this project is to develop multiple indicators that point to probable communities (geographic places defined by the Census Bureau’s Zip Code Tabulation Areas [ZCTA]) and populations at risk in Los Angeles County with high probability of COVID-19 infection and death across different dimensions. To achieve this, authors used data from California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the U.S.
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The purpose of this project is to develop multiple indicators that point to probable communities (geographic places defined by the Census Bureau’s Zip Code Tabulation Areas [ZCTA]) and populations at risk in Los Angeles County with high probability of COVID-19 infection and death across different dimensions. To achieve this, authors used data from California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), the U.S.
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Black and Latino minorities have traditionally had poorer access to primary care than non-Latino Whites, but these patterns could change with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To guide post-ACA efforts to address mental health service disparities, authors used a nationally representative sample to characterize baseline race-, ethnicity-, and nativity-associated differences in mental health services in the context of primary care.
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Black and Latino minorities have traditionally had poorer access to primary care than non-Latino Whites, but these patterns could change with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To guide post-ACA efforts to address mental health service disparities, authors used a nationally representative sample to characterize baseline race-, ethnicity-, and nativity-associated differences in mental health services in the context of primary care.
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Black and Latino minorities have traditionally had poorer access to primary care than non-Latino Whites, but these patterns could change with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To guide post-ACA efforts to address mental health service disparities, authors used a nationally representative sample to characterize baseline race-, ethnicity-, and nativity-associated differences in mental health services in the context of primary care.
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Black and Latino minorities have traditionally had poorer access to primary care than non-Latino Whites, but these patterns could change with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). To guide post-ACA efforts to address mental health service disparities, authors used a nationally representative sample to characterize baseline race-, ethnicity-, and nativity-associated differences in mental health services in the context of primary care.
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Authors discuss in an editorial the importance of including sexual minorities in large surveys, such as the California Health Interview Survey, because the resulting research can uncover unexpected health disparities specific to the LGBT population that can inform policymakers. One example: Gay or bisexual women have a 2 to 1 ratio of smoking compared with heterosexual women, while gay men and heterosexual men have the same smoking rate.
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Authors discuss in an editorial the importance of including sexual minorities in large surveys, such as the California Health Interview Survey, because the resulting research can uncover unexpected health disparities specific to the LGBT population that can inform policymakers. One example: Gay or bisexual women have a 2 to 1 ratio of smoking compared with heterosexual women, while gay men and heterosexual men have the same smoking rate.
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Cross-cultural variability in respondent processing of survey questions may bias results from multiethnic samples. We analyzed behavior codes, which identify difficulties in the interactions of respondents and interviewers, from a discrimination module contained within a field test of the 2007 California Health Interview Survey. In all, 553 (English) telephone interviews yielded 13,999 interactions involving 22 items.
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Cross-cultural variability in respondent processing of survey questions may bias results from multiethnic samples. We analyzed behavior codes, which identify difficulties in the interactions of respondents and interviewers, from a discrimination module contained within a field test of the 2007 California Health Interview Survey. In all, 553 (English) telephone interviews yielded 13,999 interactions involving 22 items.