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Socioeconomic Status And Self-Rated Health In China: Findings From A Cross-Sectional Study, Tong Yu, Yan Jiang, Michelle Gamber, Gholam Ali, Tan Xu, Wenjie Sun
Socioeconomic Status And Self-Rated Health In China: Findings From A Cross-Sectional Study, Tong Yu, Yan Jiang, Michelle Gamber, Gholam Ali, Tan Xu, Wenjie Sun
Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (Crusada)
To investigate whether socioeconomic status is associated with the self-rated health (SRH) status among Chinese.A cross sectional study including a national sample was conducted among Chinese adults in 2008. In total, 3225 participants were selected by a multistage cluster sampling method. Both general self-rated health and time-comparative self-rated health were measured by a standardized questionnaire. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the odds ratios (ORs) (95% confidence intervals, CIs) of occupation with SRH by occupation, and adjusted for age, sex, education, area, marriage, smoking, drinking, and health status.Overall, 34.4% of study participants reported "good" on the general SRH (male: …
Drinking And Driving Among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Impact Of Neighborhoods And Social Support, Mariana Sanchez, Eduardo Romano, Christyl Dawson, Hui Huang, Alicia Sneij, Elena Cyrus, Patria Rojas, Miguel Angel Cano, Judith Brook, Mario De La Rosa
Drinking And Driving Among Recent Latino Immigrants: The Impact Of Neighborhoods And Social Support, Mariana Sanchez, Eduardo Romano, Christyl Dawson, Hui Huang, Alicia Sneij, Elena Cyrus, Patria Rojas, Miguel Angel Cano, Judith Brook, Mario De La Rosa
Center for Research on U.S. Latino HIV/AIDS and Drug Abuse (Crusada)
Latinos are disproportionately impacted by drinking and driving arrests and alcohol-related fatal crashes. Why, and how, these disparities occur remains unclear. The neighborhood environments that recent Latino immigrants encounter in their host communities can potentially influence health behaviors over time, including the propensity to engage in drinking and driving. This cross-sectional study utilizes a sample of 467 documented and undocumented adult recent Latino immigrants in the United States to answer the following research questions: (a) How do neighborhood-level factors, combined with social support, impact drinking and driving risk behaviors?; and (b) Does acculturative stress moderate the effects of those associations? …