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Health Profile Of Brazilian Mothers In Massachusetts In The Twenty First Century, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Teresa Roberts, Fernanda Lucchese
Health Profile Of Brazilian Mothers In Massachusetts In The Twenty First Century, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Teresa Roberts, Fernanda Lucchese
C. Eduardo Siqueira
This paper describes the health profile of Brazilian mothers in Massachusetts according to data collected through Massachusetts Standard Certificate of Live Births (1989 revision) filed with the Massachusetts Registry of Vital Records and Statistics during 1999 and 2009. To our knowledge this is the first time that such information is reviewed with a focus on Brazilian immigrants. The findings of this article suggests that Brazilian mothers who gave birth in Massachusetts between 1999 and 2009 fared better than all mothers in Massachusetts in most obstetric health indicators considered.
E-Health Innovations, Collaboration, And Healthcare Disparities: Developing Criteria For Culturally Competent Evaluation, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Sabrina Askari
E-Health Innovations, Collaboration, And Healthcare Disparities: Developing Criteria For Culturally Competent Evaluation, Gonzalo Bacigalupe, Sabrina Askari
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
E-Health alters how health care clinicians, institutions, patients, caregivers, families, advocates, and researchers collaborate. Few guidelines exist to evaluate the impact of social technologies on furthering family health and even less on their capacity to ameliorate health disparities. Health social media tools that help develop, sustain, and strengthen the collaborative health agenda may prove useful to ameliorate health care inequities; the linkage should not, however, be taken for granted. In this article we propose a classification of emerging social technologies in health care with the purpose of developing evaluative criteria that assess their ability to foster collaboration and positively impact …
Immigrant Worker Conference Report, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira
Immigrant Worker Conference Report, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira
C. Eduardo Siqueira
No abstract provided.
“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
“They Don't Want Anything To Do With You”: Patient Views Of Primary Care Management Of Chronic Pain., Gonzalo Bacigalupe
Gonzalo Bacigalupe, EdD, MPH
No abstract provided.
Tender Point Count, Pain, And Mobility In The Older Population: The Mobilize Boston Study, Suzanne G. Leveille, Laura H.P. Eggermont
Tender Point Count, Pain, And Mobility In The Older Population: The Mobilize Boston Study, Suzanne G. Leveille, Laura H.P. Eggermont
Suzanne G. Leveille
Abstract: Prevalence of tender points (TP), and widespread pain and fibromyalgia, as well as the relationship between TP and widespread pain and mobility, was examined in 585 community-dwelling older adults (mean age 78.2 years, 63.4% female). Pain was based on location (none, single site, multisite, widespread). Mobility was measured by the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), gait speed, and self-reported (S-R) mobility difficulty. Tender-point count and health characteristics (ie, BMI, chronic conditions, analgesic use, number of medications, depression, and blocks walked per week) were assessed. Several participants had 3 or more TP (22.1%) although prevalence of criteria-based fibromyalgia was low …
Gender Differences In Presenting And Prodromal Stroke Symptoms, Eileen Stuart-Shor, Gregory A. Wellenius, Donna Dello Iacono, Murray A. Mittleman
Gender Differences In Presenting And Prodromal Stroke Symptoms, Eileen Stuart-Shor, Gregory A. Wellenius, Donna Dello Iacono, Murray A. Mittleman
Eileen Stuart-Shor
BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: Prompt recognition of stroke symptoms is critical to timely treatment and women have increased delay to treatment. Women may be more likely to present with atypical symptoms, but this hypothesis has not been extensively evaluated.
METHODS: We examined gender differences in the prevalence of presenting and prodromal stroke symptoms among 1107 consecutive patients hospitalized with neurologist-confirmed acute ischemic stroke. Patient demographics, clinical variables, and stroke symptoms were abstracted from medical records by trained abstractors using standardized forms. Estimates were age-standardized to the age distribution of men and women combined. Presenting symptoms occurred within 24 hours of incident …
Comparing Pain Severity Versus Pain Location In The Mobilize Boston Study: Chronic Pain And Lower Extremity Function, Suzanne G. Leveille, Laura H.P. Eggermont
Comparing Pain Severity Versus Pain Location In The Mobilize Boston Study: Chronic Pain And Lower Extremity Function, Suzanne G. Leveille, Laura H.P. Eggermont
Suzanne G. Leveille
Background. This study compared measures of chronic pain, for example, number of pain sites and overall pain
severity, in relation to lower extremity function in the older population.
Methods. Six hundred older adults (mean age 77.9 years, 64% female) were queried about presence of chronic pain.
Number of pain sites was categorized as none, single site, multisite, or widespread. Pain severity was measured in
quartiles of the Brief Pain Inventory pain severity subscale. Lower extremity function was assessed by the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), a composite measure of gait speed, balance, and chair stands.
Results. Many older persons reported …
The Mobilize Boston Study: Design And Methods Of A Prospective Cohort Study Of Novel Risk Factors For Falls In An Older Population, Suzanne G. Leveille
The Mobilize Boston Study: Design And Methods Of A Prospective Cohort Study Of Novel Risk Factors For Falls In An Older Population, Suzanne G. Leveille
Suzanne G. Leveille
Abstract
Background: Falls are the sixth leading cause of death in elderly people in the U.S. Despite progress in understanding risk factors for falls, many suspected risk factors have not been adequately studied. Putative risk factors for falls such as pain, reductions in cerebral blood flow, somatosensory deficits, and foot disorders are poorly understood, in part because they pose measurement challenges, particularly for large observational studies.
Methods: The MOBILIZE Boston Study (MBS), an NIA-funded Program Project, is a prospective cohort study of a unique set of risk factors for falls in seniors in the Boston area. Using a door-to-door population-based …
Project Cobweb: A Report On Brazilian Immigrant Workers In Massachusetts, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Andrea Barbosa
Project Cobweb: A Report On Brazilian Immigrant Workers In Massachusetts, Carlos Eduardo Siqueira, Andrea Barbosa
C. Eduardo Siqueira
This second report focuses on Project COBWEB's occupational health and safety research findings, based on primary and secondary data collected in Massachusetts. The sources of data used in our analysis include:
- A survey of 626 Brazilian immigrant workers.
- 147 worker compensation cases of Work-Related injuries reported by Brazilian immigrant workers to the Brazilian Immigrant Center, located in Allston, Massachusetts.
- All 16 fatalities of Brazilian immigrant workers between 1999 and 2007. There is no record of fatalities of Brazilian workers prior to 1999.
- Blood samples of 61 Brazilian construction workers, collected at the Brazilian Immigrant Center in 2006 and 2007.