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| Roberta ScheinmannSummaryAffiliation: Columbia University Country: USA Publications
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Acculturation and tobacco use among Chinese AmericansDonna Shelley
Center for Applied Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York City, NY 10032, USA
Am J Public Health 94:300-7. 2004..We examined the relationship between acculturation and tobacco use behaviors among Chinese Americans...
The $5 man: the underground economic response to a large cigarette tax increase in New York CityDonna Shelley
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10 032, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1483-8. 2007..We examined the mechanisms by which living in a disadvantaged minority community influences smoking and illegal cigarette sale and purchasing behaviors after a large cigarette tax increase...
The relative effect of household and workplace smoking restriction on health status among Chinese Americans living in New York CityDonna Shelley
Department of Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, 9th Floor, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Urban Health 84:360-71. 2007..Public health efforts should include a focus on promoting total household smoking bans to reduce the well-documented health risks of SHS exposure...
Correlates of household smoking bans among Chinese AmericansDonna Shelley
Center for Applied Public Health, Division of Sociomedical Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:103-12. 2006..Smoke-free home rules and interventions among smokers and nonsmokers to raise awareness of the dangers of ETS have the potential to significantly reduce exposure to household ETS among this immigrant population...
Physician and dentist tobacco use counseling and adolescent smoking behavior: results from the 2000 National Youth Tobacco SurveyDonna Shelley
Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, 722 W 168th St, 11th Floor, New York, New York 10032, USA
Pediatrics 115:719-25. 2005..The present study describes patterns of tobacco use counseling among physicians and dentists as reported by adolescents and determines the association between provider advice to quit and cessation activities among current smokers...
Factors that influence adolescent reports of counseling by physicians on risky behaviorGerry Fairbrother
Division of Health and Science Policy, New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 5283, USA
J Adolesc Health 37:467-76. 2005..To determine factors that affect whether low-income adolescents report that their doctor talked with them about risky behavior...
The HCV Synthesis Project: scope, methodology, and preliminary resultsRebecca K Stern
Center for Drug Use and HIV Research, National Development and Research Institutes NDRI, 71 West 23rd Street, 8th Floor, New York, NY 10010, USA
BMC Med Res Methodol 8:62. 2008..The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is hyper-endemic in injecting drug users. There is also excess HCV among non-injection drug users who smoke, snort, or sniff heroin, cocaine, crack, or methamphetamine...
Sexual dysfunction in an Internet sample of U.S. men who have sex with menSabina Hirshfield
Public Health Solutions, Department of Research and Evaluation, New York, New York 10013, USA
J Sex Med 7:3104-14. 2010..Relatively little is known about sexual dysfunction (SD) in men who have sex with men (MSM)...
Evaluating a bilingual video to improve infant feeding knowledge and behavior among immigrant Latina mothersRoberta Scheinmann
Research and Evaluation Unit, Public Health Solutions, 220 Church Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA
J Community Health 35:464-70. 2010..Attention should be given to intervening early with high-risk populations...
An examination of enrollment of children in public health insurance in New York City through facilitated enrollmentGerry Fairbrother
Division of Health and Science Policy, The New York Academy of Medicine, New York, New York 10029 5283, USA
J Urban Health 81:191-205. 2004..In a multivariable analysis, some of the factors associated with success in enrollment included being assisted by a community-based facilitated enroller, knowledge of required documents, and having lost a child's other health insurance...
Research Grants
- Effectiveness of a free nicotine patch program among Ch*Donna Shelley; Fiscal Year: 2006..In addition I will examine determinants of medication use and cessation among Chinese Americans who participate in nicotine replacement therapy, including behavioral, cognitive, social, and cultural factors. ..
