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Exploring the uncertainties of early detection results: model-based interpretation of mayo lung projectLu Shi
Department of Health Services, 650 Charles E, Young Drive S, 61 253 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
BMC Cancer 11:92. 2011..This study is intended to provide model-based testing for some of these important arguments...
Tobacco prevention education in schools for the deaf: the faculty perspectiveBarbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
J Drug Educ 41:135-59. 2011..8%), and training (43.5%) as barriers to program delivery. Perceptions, attitudes, and institutional issues, including lack of tailored curriculum, were seen as contributing to the limited focus on this important health problem...- Alcohol and other substance use among deaf and hard of hearing youthBarbara A Berman
University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
J Drug Educ 40:99-124. 2010..Current use rates are reported, and study findings are discussed in relation to national data. Understanding these use patterns is critical to developing interventions for this culturally and linguistically unique population... - The UCLA tobacco control programBarbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Department of Health Services, University of California Los Angeles School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Public Health Rep 121:515-20. 2006..We outline program successes, structural barriers to achieving some programmatic goals, and the program's early termination... - Household smoking behavior and ETS exposure among children with asthma in low-income, minority householdsBarbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California at Los Angeles, A2 125 CHS, Box 956900, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Addict Behav 28:111-28. 2003..Over 47% of the respondents reported absolute restrictions against smoking in the home, and these restrictions were associated with lower reported levels of smoking, ETS exposure, and air nicotine and urine cotinine concentrations... - Do deaf and hard of hearing youth need antitobacco education?Barbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, USA
Am Ann Deaf 152:344-55. 2007..Tobacco use covariates, exposure to cigarette marketing and antismoking programming, and tobacco education needs of deaf and hard of hearing youth are discussed... - Do children with asthma and their parents agree on household ETS exposure? Implications for asthma managementGlenn C Wong
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, A2 125 CHS, Box 956900, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Patient Educ Couns 53:19-25. 2004..Children's assessment of the extent of exposure to ETS may be problematic, with important implications for asthma patient self-management efforts... - Development and testing of an antitobacco school-based curriculum for deaf and hard of hearing youthBarbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, USA
Am Ann Deaf 155:592-604. 2011..001) and antitobacco attitudes increased (p = .01). The results indicate that the curriculum increased perceived tobacco education exposure and significantly affected tobacco-related practices, attitudes, and knowledge... - Children's exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in the home: comparison of urine cotinine and parental reportsGlenn C Wong
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90095-6900, USA
Arch Environ Health 57:584-90. 2002.... - Is tobacco use a problem among deaf college students?Barbara A Berman
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles UCLA, USA
Am Ann Deaf 151:441-51. 2006..Limitations of the research are described, including possible underreporting of participants' tobacco use... 
Low-income women with abnormal breast findings: results of a randomized trial to increase rates of diagnostic resolutionRoshan Bastani
School of Public Health, Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, University of California Los Angeles, 650 Charles Young Drive South, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 19:1927-36. 2010..We report results of a randomized trial assessing the effectiveness of a patient support and navigation intervention in increasing timely diagnostic resolution of abnormal breast findings among indigent women...- Understanding tobacco use among Filipino American menAnnette E Maxwell
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control Research, School of Public Health Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095 6900, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 9:769-76. 2007..Based on these findings, we make specific recommendations for a smoking cessation program for Filipino men... - Increasing cervical cancer screening among underserved women in a large urban county health system: can it be done? What does it take?Roshan Bastani
From the School of Public Health, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
Med Care 40:891-907. 2002..Further reduction in avoidable cervical cancer morbidity and mortality may require system-wide, integrated approaches implemented in the public health facilities serving the nation's indigent and minority women...