Abstract

The proposed project will explore the relationship between neighborhood context and measures of health among Hispanics. In preliminary analyses, the investigators have found that an increasing percentage of Hispanics residing in a census tract is related to low overall mortality, cancer mortality, and cancer incidence among Hispanics, after controlling for numerous community and individual characteristics and risk factors, including immigrant status and acculturation. At the same time, increasing census tract percent Hispanics is associated with decreased survival after a diagnosis of cancer. The investigators now propose to explore the reasons for these strong neighborhood effects on health by examining several data sets linked to census data: Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) data on cancer incidence and survival, vital registration data on cancer mortality, and the National Health Interview Survey-National Death Index file on cancer prevalence and mortality and all cause mortality. Finally, the researchers will investigate the relationship of Hispanic census tract density and other contextual measures with individual characteristics, health behaviors, social support, affective disorders and physiologic measures using a census-linked NHANES file. ? ?

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Type
Specialized Center (P50)
Project #
1P50CA105631-01
Application #
6657220
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZES1-SET-A (P6))
Program Officer
Heurtin-Roberts, Suzanne H
Project Start
2003-09-01
Project End
2008-08-31
Budget Start
2003-09-01
Budget End
2004-08-31
Support Year
1
Fiscal Year
2003
Total Cost
$1,700,000
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of Texas Medical Br Galveston
Department
Internal Medicine/Medicine
Type
Schools of Medicine
DUNS #
800771149
City
Galveston
State
TX
Country
United States
Zip Code
77555

  Publications

Prochaska, John D; Buschmann, Robert N; Jupiter, Daniel et al. (2018) Subjective neighborhood assessment and physical inactivity: An examination of neighborhood-level variance. Prev Med 111:336-341
Murdock, Kyle W; Stowe, Raymond P; Peek, M Kristen et al. (2018) An Evaluation of Perceived Health Risk and Depressive Symptoms Before a Disaster in Predicting Postdisaster Inflammation. Psychosom Med 80:49-54
Garcini, Luz M; Chirinos, Diana A; Murdock, Kyle W et al. (2018) Pathways linking racial/ethnic discrimination and sleep among U.S.-born and foreign-born Latinxs. J Behav Med 41:364-373
Dierking, Leah; Markides, Kyriakos; Al Snih, Soham et al. (2016) Fear of Falling in Older Mexican Americans: A Longitudinal Study of Incidence and Predictive Factors. J Am Geriatr Soc 64:2560-2565
Murdock, Kyle W; Fagundes, Christopher P; Peek, M Kristen et al. (2016) The effect of self-reported health on latent herpesvirus reactivation and inflammation in an ethnically diverse sample. Psychoneuroendocrinology 72:113-8
Shell, Alyssa Marie; Peek, M Kristen; Eschbach, Karl (2013) Neighborhood Hispanic composition and depressive symptoms among Mexican-descent residents of Texas City, Texas. Soc Sci Med 99:56-63
Stowe, Raymond P; Peek, M Kristen; Cutchin, Malcolm P et al. (2012) Reactivation of herpes simplex virus type 1 is associated with cytomegalovirus and age. J Med Virol 84:1797-802
Peek, M Kristen; Howrey, Bret T; Ternent, Rafael Samper et al. (2012) Social support, stressors, and frailty among older Mexican American adults. J Gerontol B Psychol Sci Soc Sci 67:755-64
Markides, Kyriakos S; Al Snih, Soham; Walsh, Tasanee et al. (2012) Problem drinking among Mexican-Americans: the influence of nativity and neighborhood context? Am J Health Promot 26:225-9
Mair, Christine A; Cutchin, Malcolm P; Kristen Peek, M (2011) Allostatic load in an environmental riskscape: the role of stressors and gender. Health Place 17:978-87

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