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| Eliseo J Perez StableSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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Association of media literacy with cigarette smoking among youth in Jujuy, ArgentinaM Victoria Salgado
Division of General Internal Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 14:516-21. 2012..The objective of this study was to determine whether media literacy related to smoking is independently associated with current smoking and susceptibility to future smoking in a sample of mostly indigenous youth in Jujuy, Argentina...- Physician use of advance care planning discussions in a diverse hospitalized populationSonali P Kulkarni
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:620-4. 2011..Multiethnic, multi-lingual hospitalized patients reported low rates of ACP discussions with their physicians regardless of ethnicity, English proficiency, education level or age... - Identification of limited English proficient patients in clinical careLeah S Karliner
Division of General Internal Medicine and Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0320, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1555-60. 2008..Standardized means to identify patients likely to benefit from language assistance are needed... 
Counseling smoking parents of young children: comparison of pediatricians and family physiciansE J Perez-Stable
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Ave, Room A 405, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA 94143 0320, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 155:25-31. 2001..Secondhand smoke is a major cause of morbidity in young children, and exposure to smoking parents is the principal source. Physician visits for young children present an opportunity to effect behavioral change among smoking parents...- Issues in achieving compliance with antihypertensive treatment in the Latino populationEliseo J Perez-Stable
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California San Francisco, California 94143 0320, USA
Clin Cornerstone 6:49-61; discussion 62-4. 2004..Health care systems and plans should work on creating culturally competent health care programs to serve the needs of this diverse population... - Cigarette smoking behavior among US Latino men and women from different countries of originE J Perez-Stable
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
Am J Public Health 91:1424-30. 2001..This study sought to compare smoking behavior among Latino men and women from different countries of origin... - Factors affecting breast cancer risk reduction practices among California physiciansCelia Patricia Kaplan
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Prev Med 41:7-15. 2005..Little is known about the incorporation of breast cancer risk reduction therapies into clinical practice... - Physician language ability and cultural competence. An exploratory study of communication with Spanish-speaking patientsAlicia Fernandez
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, Calif 94110, USA
J Gen Intern Med 19:167-74. 2004..We studied physician-patient dyads to determine how physician self-rated Spanish-language ability and cultural competence affect Spanish-speaking patients' reports of interpersonal processes of care... - Variation in access to health care for different racial/ethnic groups by the racial/ethnic composition of an individual's county of residenceJennifer S Haas
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusett 02160, USA
Med Care 42:707-14. 2004.... - Cancer risk factors among men of diverse Hispanic or Latino originsAmelie G Ramirez
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, San Antonio, TX 78230, USA
Prev Med 39:263-9. 2004..However, routine risk factor data on Latino groups are lacking. Knowledge of cancer risk prevalence by ethnoregional groups is particularly important for development of effective prevention and control strategies... - Cancer screening among jail inmates: frequency, knowledge, and willingnessIngrid A Binswanger
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Box 357183, Seattle, WA 98195 7183, USA
Am J Public Health 95:1781-7. 2005..We determined jail inmates' knowledge of cancer screening tests, their frequency of screening, and their willingness to undergo screening in jail in order to assess preventive health services for jail inmates... - A national agenda for Latino cancer prevention and controlAmelie G Ramirez
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 78230, USA
Cancer 103:2209-15. 2005..The results laid the foundation for a national Redes En Accion Latino cancer agenda, thus providing a useful tool for individuals and organizations engaged in cancer prevention and control efforts among the Hispanic-Latino population... - Breast cancer risk reduction options: awareness, discussion, and use among women from four ethnic groupsCelia Patricia Kaplan
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco Comprehensive Cancer Center, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:162-6. 2006..With recent advances in breast cancer risk reduction practices, it is increasingly important to assess both the breadth of and disparities in use across different racial/ethnic groups... - Colon cancer screening in the ambulatory settingJudith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Box 1732, 1701 Divisadero, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Prev Med 35:209-18. 2002..The objective of this study was to determine patient and clinician factors associated with screening for colon cancer... - Perceived risk of breast cancer among women at average and increased riskJennifer S Haas
Division of General Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02120 1613, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 14:845-51. 2005..This study examined characteristics associated with perception of breast cancer risk among women at average and increased risk... - Adult immunization in university-based primary care and specialty practicesNicholas A Daniels
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Universtiy of California at San Francisco, 94115, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1007-12. 2004..With the exception of Russian immigrants, the study did not find that racial and ethnic minorities had lower rates of vaccination than whites... 
Use of cancer support groups among Latina breast cancer survivorsANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, 3333 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944, USA
J Cancer Surviv 1:193-204. 2007..Although Latina women diagnosed with breast cancer may be at greater risk of psychosocial morbidity compared to white women, few utilize support services such as support groups. Reasons for this under-use among Latinas are unknown...- Ethnic minority older adults participating in clinical research: developing trustGina Moreno-John
University of California at San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Box 0320, San Francisco, CA 94143 0320, USA
J Aging Health 16:93S-123S. 2004..A significant barrier to participation in research is mistrust of the scientific community and institutions. The aims of this article are to discuss the lack of representation of ethnic minorities in clinical research... - Promoting use of colorectal cancer screening tests. Can we change physician behavior?Judith M E Walsh
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
J Gen Intern Med 20:1097-101. 2005..Colorectal cancer (CRC) screening is underutilized despite evidence that screening reduces mortality... - Slower metabolism and reduced intake of nicotine from cigarette smoking in Chinese-AmericansNeal L Benowitz
Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA
J Natl Cancer Inst 94:108-15. 2002..We compared the rate of nicotine metabolism and the intake of nicotine per cigarette smoked among smokers of different ethnicities... - Association between thyroid dysfunction and total cholesterol level in an older biracial population: the health, aging and body composition studyAlka M Kanaya
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, 1701 Divisadero St, Suite 554, San Francisco, CA 94143 1732, USA
Arch Intern Med 162:773-9. 2002..Thyroid dysfunction increases with age. Less is known about the prevalence of thyroid disease in older black adults and whether an association between thyroid function and serum cholesterol level exists, as in older white adults... - Association between cancer risk perception and screening behavior among diverse womenSue E Kim
Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California, San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Ave, A 405, Box 0856, San Francisco, CA 94143 0856, USA
Arch Intern Med 168:728-34. 2008..We measured the perception of breast, cervical, and colon cancer risks and screening in diverse women to examine the association between risk perception and screening behavior... - Mentoring in community-based participatory research: the RCMAR experienceGina Moreno-John
University of California at San Francisco, Department of Medicine, USA
Ethn Dis 17:S33-43. 2007..In addition to mentoring trainees and/or junior faculty, we also explore the bi-directional mentoring that occurs when faculty at academic health centers develop partnerships with members of their target communities... - Toward evidence-based Internet interventions: A Spanish/English Web site for international smoking cessation trialsRICARDO F MUNOZ
Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 8:77-87. 2006..Smokers with past (but not current) MDEs tended to be the most likely to abstain and those with current MDEs the least likely. This trend reached significance in studies 1 and 4... - Breast and cervical cancer screening: impact of health insurance status, ethnicity, and nativity of LatinasMichael A Rodriguez
Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles 90024, USA
Ann Fam Med 3:235-41. 2005.... - Frequency of dementia etiologies in four ethnic groupsCraig E Hou
Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord 22:42-7. 2006..Research on dementia among ethnically diverse populations in the USA has focused primarily on Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia, but there are limited data on other neurodegenerative causes of dementia... - Redes En Acción. Increasing Hispanic participation in cancer research, training, and awarenessAmelie G Ramirez
Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Cancer 107:2023-33. 2006..Redes En Acción has increased participation in cancer control research, training, and awareness among Hispanic scientists and within Hispanic communities. Cancer 2006. (c) 2006 American Cancer Society... - Health literacy and access to kidney transplantationVanessa Grubbs
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0532, USA
Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 4:195-200. 2009..We hypothesized that inadequate health literacy in a hemodialysis population is common and is associated with poorer access to kidney transplant wait-lists... - Ethnicity, language, specialty care, and quality of diabetes careTung T Nguyen
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California, San Francisco, California, USA
Ethn Dis 17:65-71. 2007..To investigate ethnicity, language, specialty care, and quality of diabetes care in one medical center... - Effectiveness of adult vaccination programs in faith-based organizationsNicholas A Daniels
Center for Aging in Diverse Communities, Department of Medicine, Research Center for Diverse Populations, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
Ethn Dis 17:S15-22. 2007..This onsite, FBO adult vaccination program was effective in increasing vaccination rates and may be promising for decreasing raciallethnic disparities in vaccination rates... - Focus group interviews on racial and ethnic attitudes regarding adult vaccinationsNicholas A Daniels
University of California, Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 96:1455-61. 2004..This article examines racial and ethnic attitudes regarding recommended adult vaccinations... - Patients' perceptions of cultural factors affecting the quality of their medical encountersANNA M NAPOLES-SPRINGER
Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations and the Center on Aging in Diverse Communities, University of California San Francisco UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94118 1944
Health Expect 8:4-17. 2005..The aim of this study was to identify key domains of cultural competence from the perspective of ethnically and linguistically diverse patients... - Genetic ancestry and risk factors for breast cancer among Latinas in the San Francisco Bay AreaElad Ziv
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California San Francisco, Box 1732, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 15:1878-85. 2006..We reasoned that if genetic ancestry is associated with known breast cancer risk factors, then the results of genetic association studies would be confounded... - Smoking behaviors among immigrant Asian Americans: rules for smoke-free homesElisa K Tong
Division of General Internal Medicine, University of California Davis, Davis, California, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:64-7. 2008..Asian immigrants in California are significantly more likely than their counterparts in Asia to have quit smoking. Smoke-free environments may mediate this acculturation effect because such environments are not widespread in Asia... - Genetic ancestry and risk of breast cancer among U.S. LatinasLaura Fejerman
Division of General Internal Medicine and Lung Biology Center, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 1732, USA
Cancer Res 68:9723-8. 2008..39; 95% CI, 1.06-2.11; P=0.013). Further work is needed to determine if the association is due to genetic differences between populations or possibly due to environmental factors not measured... - Access and attitudinal factors related to breast and cervical cancer rescreening: why are Latinas still underscreened?Regina Otero-Sabogal
Institute for Health and Aging, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0646, USA
Health Educ Behav 30:337-59. 2003..There are structural and attitudinal barriers to regular cancer screening among Latinas. Interventions that increase access to care and address women's attitudes about cancer are needed... - Creatinine levels among Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans in the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyRudolph A Rodriguez
Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California, USA
Kidney Int 66:2368-73. 2004..Although Latinos constitute the largest and fastest growing minority group in the United States, little is known about the prevalence of renal disease among different Latino subgroups... - Preferences for human papillomavirus testing with routine cervical cancer screening in diverse older womenAlison J Huang
Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Gen Intern Med 23:1324-9. 2008..Little is known about women's attitudes toward HPV testing or how these attitudes may influence medical discussions about cervical cancer screening... - Latino populations: a unique opportunity for the study of race, genetics, and social environment in epidemiological researchEsteban Gonzalez Burchard
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143 0833, USA
Am J Public Health 95:2161-8. 2005.... - Ending cervical cancer screening: attitudes and beliefs from ethnically diverse older womenGeorge F Sawaya
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, USA
Am J Obstet Gynecol 200:40.e1-7. 2009..Guidelines support ending cervical cancer screening in women aged 65-70 years and older with previous normal testing, but little is known about older women's attitudes and beliefs about ending screening... - Accuracy of physician self-report of Spanish language proficiencyAnne Rosenthal
Maxine Hall Health Center, San Francisco Department of Public Health, San Francisco, CA, 94115, USA
J Immigr Minor Health 13:239-43. 2011..In settings where no financial or other incentives are linked to language skills, simple questions may be a useful way to assess physician language proficiency... - Population stratification confounds genetic association studies among LatinosShweta Choudhry
University of California, San Francisco, 94143-0833, USA
Hum Genet 118:652-64. 2006..Our findings suggest that empirical assessment of the effects of stratification is critical to appropriately interpret the results of case-control studies in admixed populations...
Research Grants
- Tobacco Control Research and Training in South AmericaEliseo Perez Stable; Fiscal Year: 2009....
- Tobacco Control Research and Training in South AmericaEliseo Perez Stable; Fiscal Year: 2007....
- Tobacco Use Among Argentinian Youth: A Cohort StudyEliseo Perez Stable; Fiscal Year: 2006..The intervention will target modification of predisposing and reinforcing factors for smoking. ..
- Tobacco Control Research and Training in South AmericaEliseo J Perez Stable; Fiscal Year: 2010....