Black nativity and health disparities: A research paradigm for understanding the social determinants of health

MA Ifatunji, Y Faustin, W Lee, D Wallace - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
After more than a century of research and debate, the scientific community has yet to reach
agreement on the principal causes of racialized disparities in population health. This debate …

[HTML][HTML] Cancer screening in refugees and immigrants: a global perspective

PF Walker, AM Settgast, MB DeSilva - The American Journal of …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Clinicians in the United States are trained to screen for cancer based on patient age,
gender, family history, and environmental risk factors such as smoking. These cancers …

Cancer mortality by country of birth and cancer type in Sweden: A 25‐year registry‐based cohort study

DN Tollosa, K Zendehdel, A Procopio… - Cancer …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Numerous studies have reported lower overall cancer mortality rates among immigrants
compared to native populations. However, limited information exists regarding cancer …

[HTML][HTML] Immigration and improvements in American life expectancy

AS Hendi, JY Ho - SSM-Population Health, 2021 - Elsevier
Despite the immigrant mortality advantage and the increasing share of the population born
abroad, relatively little is known about how immigration has impacted trends in US life …

Association of nativity with survival among adults with hepatocellular carcinoma

K Zhou, Z Song, N Rostomian, JL Dodge… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Immigrants comprise a considerable proportion of those diagnosed with
hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in the United States. Nativity or birthplace affects incidence …

Assessing racial, ethnic, and nativity disparities in US cancer mortality using a new integrated platform

M Yu, L Liu, J Gibson, D Campbell, Q Liu… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Background Foreign-born populations in the United States have markedly increased, yet
cancer trends remain unexplored. Survey-based Population-Adjusted Rate Calculator …

Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net

M Van Natta - Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines how US immigration law extends into the health care safety net,
enacting medical legal violence that diminishes noncitizens' health chances and transforms …

Redefining precision cancer prevention to promote health equity

EN Butler, A Umar, BM Heckman-Stoddard… - Trends in Cancer, 2022 - cell.com
Precision cancer prevention as it is currently envisioned is a targeted, molecular-based
approach to intercept carcinogenesis before cancer develops or before it becomes …

Racial disparities in liver cancer: Evidence for a role of environmental contaminants and the epigenome

AC Vidal, CA Moylan, J Wilder, DJ Grant… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Liver cancer incidence has tripled since the early 1980s, making this disease one of the
fastest rising types of cancer and the third leading cause of cancer-related deaths …

Knowledge of legal rights as a factor of refugee and asylum seekers' health status: a qualitative study

TC Pilato, F Taki, K Sbrollini, AP Drake, B Maley… - BMJ open, 2023 - bmjopen.bmj.com
Objectives To examine health behaviours of refugees and asylum seekers, in relation to
their knowledge of public benefits and legal rights. Design Qualitative study, utilising an …