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Effective recruitment of minority populations through community-led strategiesCarol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy and Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Prev Med 37:S195-200. 2009....
Community-based participatory research from the margin to the mainstream: are researchers prepared?Carol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1425 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10029, USA
Circulation 119:2633-42. 2009..If successful, lessons learned should inform policy and inspire structural changes in healthcare systems and in communities...
The success of recruiting minorities, women, and elderly into a randomized controlled effectiveness trialJane E Sisk
Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 75:37-43. 2008..Our objective was to assess whether a randomized controlled effectiveness trial enrolled patients by ethnicity/race, gender, and age in proportion to those eligible...
Using community-based participatory research to reduce health disparities in East and Central HarlemCarol R Horowitz
Health Policy, Box 1077, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, 1 East 100th Street, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 71:368-74. 2004..We developed an approach to educate and work together with Harlem residents to study health disparities, and to use peer-led classes to improve chronic disease management and outcomes...
Peer education for secondary stroke prevention in inner-city minorities: design and methods of the prevent recurrence of all inner-city strokes through education randomized controlled trialJudith Z Goldfinger
Department of Health Evidence and Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 33:1065-73. 2012..However, use of proven-effective cardiovascular medications to control stroke risk is suboptimal, particularly among the Black and Latino populations disproportionately impacted by stroke...
A model for using community-based participatory research to address the diabetes epidemic in East HarlemCarol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy and Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 75:13-21. 2008..Despite evidence that weight loss due to improved nutrition and increased physical activity can prevent or control diabetes, there is often a disconnect between this evidence and individuals' lifestyles...
Barriers to buying healthy foods for people with diabetes: evidence of environmental disparitiesCarol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Public Health 94:1549-54. 2004..A community coalition compared the availability and cost of diabetes-healthy foods in a racial/ethnic minority neighborhood in East Harlem, with those in the adjacent, largely White and affluent Upper East Side in New York City...
Understanding minority patients' beliefs about hypertension to reduce gaps in communication between patients and cliniciansIan M Kronish
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 14:38-44. 2012..Listening to patients' beliefs about hypertension may increase trust, improve communication, and encourage better self-management of hypertension...
Project HEAL: peer education leads to weight loss in HarlemJudith Z Goldfinger
Department of Health Policy and Medicine, Mt Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 19:180-92. 2008..Obesity and diabetes are epidemic in the predominantly minority Harlem community. To address them, a coalition of community and academic leaders tested the effectiveness of a peer-led weight loss course...
Observations and recommendations for community-based diabetes screeningsBrian West
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Department of Health Evidence and Policy, New York, New York, USA
Diabetes Educ 36:887-93. 2010....
Results of a pilot diabetes prevention intervention in East Harlem, New York City: Project HEEDPunam Parikh
Department of Health Evidence and Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Am J Public Health 100:S232-9. 2010....
Effects of nurse management on the quality of heart failure care in minority communities: a randomized trialJane E Sisk
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York 10029, USA
Ann Intern Med 145:273-83. 2006..Despite therapies proven effective for heart failure with systolic dysfunction, the condition continues to cause substantial hospitalization, disability, and death, especially among African- American and other nonwhite populations...
Posttraumatic stress disorder and adherence to medications in survivors of strokes and transient ischemic attacksIan M Kronish
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
Stroke 43:2192-7. 2012..Little is known regarding how PTSD triggered by medical events affects patients' adherence to medications...
How do urban African Americans and Latinos view the influence of diet on hypertension?Carol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 15:631-44. 2004..These findings suggest the importance of culturally sensitive approaches to dietary improvements...
Racial and ethnic differences in factors associated with early postpartum depressive symptomsElizabeth A Howell
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York 10029, USA
Obstet Gynecol 105:1442-50. 2005..To explore whether racial differences in early postpartum experience (such as mother's health status and social context) might account for racial differences in reported postpartum depressive symptoms...
A community-centered approach to diabetes in East HarlemCarol R Horowitz
Department of Health Policy, Mount Sinai Medical School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1077, New York, NY 10029, USA
J Gen Intern Med 18:542-8. 2003....
