A5050399666- Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Migration, Health and Trauma
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Community Health and Development
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Anesthesia and Neurotoxicity Research
- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Child and Adolescent Health
- Epilepsy research and treatment
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Ultrasound in Clinical Applications
- Anesthesia and Pain Management
- Cardiac, Anesthesia and Surgical Outcomes
- Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Critical Race Theory in Education
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
Dartmouth College
2014-2024
Royal Alexandra Children's Hospital
2016-2024
University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust
2024
Research Network (United States)
2023
Dartmouth Hospital
2016-2018
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
2015
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2010-2013
University of Washington
2006-2009
Cambridge Health Alliance
2006
University of California, Davis
2006
Objectives. We examined lifetime and 12-month rates of any depressive, anxiety, substance abuse disorders in a national sample Asian Americans. focused on factors related to nativity immigration as possible correlates mental disorders. Methods. Data were derived from the National Latino American Study, first epidemiological survey Americans United States. Results. The relationships between immigration-related different for men women. Among women, was strongly associated with disorders,...
Phenytoin is the recommended second-line intravenous anticonvulsant for treatment of paediatric convulsive status epilepticus in UK; however, some evidence suggests that levetiracetam could be an effective and safer alternative. This trial compared efficacy safety phenytoin management epilepticus.This open-label, randomised clinical was undertaken at 30 UK emergency departments secondary tertiary care centres. Participants aged 6 months to under 18 years, with requiring treatment, were...
Background This study examined whether there were associations between individual measures of socio-economic status (SES) and the 12-month prevalence major depressive disorder (MDD) in representative samples Blacks, Latinos, Asians Whites USA. Method The data used from Collaborative Psychiatric Epidemiology Studies (CPES). Results There was an association household income MDD among Whites. However, not statistically significant. Statistically significant present educational attainment Among...
This article investigates differences in the mental health among male and female immigrants from an ecological perspective, testing influences of both individual acculturation domains social contexts. Data first nationally representative psychiatric survey immigrant Asians US is used (N = 1,583). These data demonstrate importance understanding (e.g., English proficiency, ethnic identity, time US), within contexts family, community, neighborhood. Results that Asian women, association between...
Racial and ethnic minorities are often residentially segregated from whites in urban settings, a fact which has important health consequences. Research on the relationship between residential segregation outcomes lacks national-level investigation of racial minority groups other than African Americans. I use multilevel analyses to examine associations isolation clustering with birth weight among Asian, black, Latino Americans using data National Center for Health Statistics' Natality Files...
This study examines lifetime prevalence estimates of mental disorders among Asian Americans with a focus on differences by nativity, gender, and other relevant sociodemographic correlates. We analyze cross-sectional data from the National Latino American Study (NLAAS), first national epidemiological survey which used probability sample household resident adults in United States (N=2,095). US-born are more likely to experience mood disorders, substance use any compared immigrants. Lifetime...
Objective. The purpose of this article is to explore the additive and moderating effects neighborhood context on substance use among youth. Methods. Using a regional sample adolescents matching data Census tracts, we hierarchical linear modeling examine relationship between disadvantage instability alcohol marijuana while controlling for individual, family, peer characteristics. Results. For both measures, find has consistent negative direct effect; living in economically disadvantaged...
This article examines how facets of family structure and processes are linked to self-rated health psychological distress in a national sample Asian Americans. The authors find little support for well-established theories predicting the effects structure. Marital status does not affect has limited on distress. only composition evident among men U.S.-born, where presence extended home is related lower levels important gender nativity differences cohesion, which protect physical well-being...
In this study I investigate the associations of neighborhood socioeconomic and social environments with health Asian Americans living in both ethnic neighborhoods non-Asian neighborhoods. use a sample 1962 from National Latino American Study (NLAAS, 2003-04). Three key findings emerge. First, absolute levels resources do not differ greatly between which live. Second, context conditions effects education on so that higher is related to better self-rated among only when they live Finally,...
As demographers and policy makers laud steps toward neighborhood integration, urban ethnographers remind us that diverse communities can perpetuate inequality if the dynamics produce it are left unaddressed. This qualitative study focuses a cultural lens on social relationships in two stably neighborhoods, mapping connections between what author terms “habits of whiteness” dimensions racial domination. One habits is anxiety, exhibited as an amplified sense danger multiethnic spaces, which...
Research on Asian American ethnic neighborhoods lacks appreciation of the national-origin, nativity, and socioeconomic diversity within this racial group. Using 2000 U.S. Census, paper creates a novel theoretical typology based these features to characterize ( N = 74) among Chinese, Filipino, Korean, Vietnamese Americans in California. Korean Chinese are bimodally distributed into immigrant enclaves resurgent communities. Communities constraint overrepresented Filipino neighborhoods. Linking...
Abstract As America's neighborhoods have become more racially diverse in the last half century, are these shared spaces fulfilling “promise of integration”? In this study, I review literature on desegregation as it occurs urban, suburban, and rural places, illuminating how a culture whiteness works each types places to reproduce racial domination. The multiethnic urban areas demonstrates reframes gentrification ‘revitalization’ nostalgia, which result social control cultural displacement...
This analysis of social life in a poor, multiethnic public housing neighborhood presents an opportunity for refinement disorganization theory. Drawing on data from interviews, focus groups, and participant observations among residents, I find that this exhibits substantial collective efficacy, despite theory's predictions the structural conditions high poverty racial ethnic diversity result low efficacy. explicate two psychological investment strategies—sense ownership symbolic...
Capturing belonging as a dynamic social process for Asian Americans in the historically White rural United States.
Importance Ileocolic intussusception is an important cause of intestinal obstruction in children. Reduction ileocolic using air or fluid enema the standard care. This likely distressing procedure usually performed without sedation analgesia, but practice variation exists. Objective To characterize prevalence opioid analgesia and assess their association with perforation failed reduction. Design, Setting, Participants cross-sectional study reviewed medical records children aged 4 to 48 months...
We investigated differences between foreign- and U.S.-born Asian Americans in self-rating their physical mental health. In particular, we tested whether the foreign-born respondents underreport extreme categories of scale as compared with respondents.We analyzed data from National Latino American Study to examine immigrants are less likely use ends 5-category self-rated health scales than counterparts. used propensity score matching derive groups U.S.- who share similar demographic...
The educational gradient in health is one of the most robust associations social science research. Results current study indicate that, like pattern observed among other racial and ethnic minority groups, well-established attenuated Asian Americans. We also show that association between attainment self-rated Americans depends on whether they receive bulk their education United States or abroad. Compared to schooling received States, being educated a foreign country does not result same...
Living in more 'ethnically dense' areas is thought to promote health, possibly by facilitating social support and a sense of belonging. Because kin networks cultural obligations, family relationships may be particularly important for Asian immigrants. Chinese-origin individuals are the largest group Americans among most highly segregated, but psychosocial benefits living Chinese neighborhoods not established. We examined whether immigrants higher ethnic density report from friends, less...
Abstract As our nation and neighborhoods increasingly diversify, we should understand how to sustain integrated communities that are equally beneficial for all residents. Though policies encourage diversity as a theoretical social good, actually know little about what happens on the ground in multiethnic neighborhoods. We conduct comparative case study of only two Boston have maintained at least 10% representation four racial ethnic groups over past decades. Using survey data ethnographic...