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7. Cardiovascular Disease & Cancer Risk Among South Asians: Impact of Sociocultural Influences on Lifestyle and Behavior

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Kandula, Namratha, Ahmed, Munerah, Dodani, Sunita, Gupta, Leena, Hore, Paromita, Kanaya, Alka, Khowaja, Aijaz, Mathur, Ashish, Mehta, Darshan, Misra, Ranjita, Paracha, Muhammad, Bharmal, Nazleen, Aghhi, Mira, Leng, Jennifer, and Gany, Francesca

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Health Services and Systems, Health Sciences, Heart Disease, Nutrition, Basic Behavioral and Social Science, Prevention, Cardiovascular, Cancer, Behavioral and Social Science, Good Health and Well Being, Asian, Cardiovascular Diseases, Culture, Emigrants and Immigrants, Female, Health Behavior, Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice, Humans, Life Style, Male, Needs Assessment, Neoplasms, Socioeconomic Factors, United States, South Asian, Cardiovascular disease risk, Cancer risk, Lifestyle, Behaviour, Public Health and Health Services, Public Health, Epidemiology, Public health, Sociology
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A comprehensive literature review revealed cultural beliefs, societal obligations, and gender roles within the South Asian community to be indirect contributors to the health of South Asian immigrants (SAIs). Health professionals need to increase their work with SAI communities to change less beneficial cultural elements such as misconceptions about health and exercise, and lack of communication when using alternative medicines. Community engaged efforts and continuing medical education are both needed to improve the health of the South Asian immigrant population in a culturally appropriate manner.

Published
2019

22. Mental Health and Stress Among South Asians

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Karasz, Alison, Gany, Francesca, Escobar, Javier, Flores, Cristina, Prasad, Lakshmi, Inman, Arpana, Kalasapudi, Vasundhara, Kosi, Razia, Murthy, Meena, Leng, Jennifer, and Diwan, Sadhna

Published
2019

23. Smoking Among Chinese Livery Drivers

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Leng, Jennifer C., Lei, Lei, Lei, Shu Fang, Zhu, Zhiying, Mo, Nancy, Sou, Brian, Mujawar, Imran, and Gany, Francesca

Published
2019

25. The Genetic Links to Anxiety and Depression (GLAD) Study: Online recruitment into the largest recontactable study of depression and anxiety

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Davies, Molly R., Kalsi, Gursharan, Armour, Chérie, Jones, Ian R., McIntosh, Andrew M., Smith, Daniel J., Walters, James T.R., Bradley, John R., Kingston, Nathalie, Ashford, Sofie, Beange, Ioana, Brailean, Anamaria, Cleare, Anthony J., Coleman, Jonathan R.I., Curtis, Charles J., Curzons, Susannah C.B., Davis, Katrina A.S., Dowey, Le Roy C., Gault, Victor A., Goldsmith, Kimberley A., Bennett, Megan Hammond, Hirose, Yoriko, Hotopf, Matthew, Hübel, Christopher, Kanz, Carola, Leng, Jennifer, Lyall, Donald M., Mason, Bethany D., McAtarsney-Kovacs, Monika, Monssen, Dina, Moulton, Alexei, Ovington, Nigel, Palaiologou, Elisavet, Pariante, Carmine M., Parikh, Shivani, Peel, Alicia J., Price, Ruth K., Rimes, Katharine A., Rogers, Henry C., Sambrook, Jennifer, Skelton, Megan, Spaul, Anna, Suarez, Eddy L.A., Sykes, Bronte L., Thomas, Keith G., Young, Allan H., Vassos, Evangelos, Veale, David, White, Katie M., Wingrove, Janet, Eley, Thalia C., and Breen, Gerome

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2019
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47. Food insecurity among New York City taxi and for-hire vehicle drivers.

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Gany, Francesca M., Meraji, Nujbat Nasim, Narang, Bharat, Wu, Minlun, and Leng, Jennifer

Subjects
WORK environment, FOOD security, PRIMARY health care, AUTOMOBILE driving, DESCRIPTIVE statistics, MENTAL depression, SCALE analysis (Psychology), CHI-squared test, AT-risk people, RESEARCH funding, DEMOGRAPHIC characteristics, POLICY sciences, SENSITIVITY & specificity (Statistics), DATA analysis software, ODDS ratio, PSYCHOLOGICAL distress
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BACKGROUND: New York City's (NYC's) taxi/for-hire vehicle (FHV) drivers have occupational and demographic characteristics associated with food insecurity (low income, comorbidities, minority race/ethnicity). OBJECTIVE: To analyze food insecurity rates in a sample of NYC drivers and to identify associated factors. METHODS: At health fairs, we recruited a cross-sectional sample of licensed taxi/FHV drivers willing to receive study text messages. Most lacked a primary care provider. Food insecurity prevalence and associations with health and economic indicators were analyzed. RESULTS: Of 503 participants who completed a 2-item food security screener, 39.2% were food insecure. Significantly fewer food insecure than food secure drivers reported a doctor visit within the past year (48% vs 25%; P <.001). Food insecure drivers had greater weekly traffic ticket expenditure ($34 vs $24; P =.02) and were more likely to report insufficient household income (61% vs 39%; P <.001) and history of depression (14% vs 7%; P =.02), to have elevated (>200) measured total cholesterol (50% vs 37%; P =.02), and to have Perceived Stress Scale scores indicating greater stress than food secure drivers (14 vs 11; P =.002). In a binary logistic regression analysis, drivers who reported that their total household income was enough to meet their basic needs had significantly lower odds of being food insecure (0.695 odds ratio; P =.016). CONCLUSION: Food insecurity was high in this group of taxi/FHV drivers. Food insecurity interventions are needed and could be occupationally based, with worksite screening and resource navigation. Policies should address improving wages and healthcare access. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2023
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