"*Health Status Disparities"

Educational health disparities in hypertension and diabetes mellitus among African descent populations in the Caribbean and the USA: a comparative analysis from the Spanish town cohort (Jamaica) and the Jackson heart study (USA).
BACKGROUND: Studies have suggested that social inequalities in chronic disease outcomes differ between industrialized and developing …
Aurelian Bidulescu, Trevor S. Ferguson, Ian Hambleton, Novie Younger-Coleman, Damian Francis, Nadia Bennett, Michael Griswold, Ervin Fox, Marlene MacLeish, Rainford Wilks, E. Nigel Harris, Louis W. Sullivan
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Monitoring Caribbean tobacco use: baseline adolescent smoking prevalence and regional disparities.
OBJECTIVE: To provide baseline information on tobacco use among adolescents in the Caribbean for the period before country-level …
Ian R. Hambleton, Selvi M. Jeyaseelan, Christina Howitt, Anselm J. Hennis
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Cause-of-death disparities in the African diaspora: exploring differences among shared-heritage populations.
OBJECTIVES: We investigated changes in life expectancy (LE) and cause-specific mortality over time, directly comparing African-descent …
Ian R. Hambleton, Selvi Jeyaseelan, Christina Howitt, Natasha Sobers-Grannum, Anselm J. Hennis, Rainford J. Wilks, E. Nigel Harris, Marlene MacLeish, Louis W. Sullivan
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Disparities in diabetes mellitus among Caribbean populations: a scoping review.
BACKGROUND: Despite the large body of research on racial/ethnic disparities in health, there are limited data on health disparities in …
Nadia R. Bennett, Damian K. Francis, Trevor S. Ferguson, Anselm J. M. Hennis, Rainford J. Wilks, Eon Nigel Harris, Marlene M. Y. MacLeish, Louis W. Sullivan
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