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| Anissa I VinesSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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The challenges of eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities: inescapable realities? Perplexing science? Ineffective policy?Anissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, School of Public Health, 27599 7400, USA
N C Med J 65:341-9. 2004..But, America is no stranger to challenges, and few are more worthy of the effort than this...
The association between self-reported major life events and the presence of uterine fibroidsAnissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7435, USA
Womens Health Issues 20:294-8. 2010..Factors associated with this condition such as psychosocial stress are still being elucidated. This paper explores the association between major life events (MLE) stress and fibroids...- A comparison of the occurrence and perceived stress of major life events in black and white womenAnissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, Gillings School of Global Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 7435, USA
Women Health 49:368-80. 2009..To describe the occurrence and perceived stress of major life events, and to investigate whether adjusting for socioeconomic status reduced race/ethnicity differences... - Stress of caring for children: the role of perceived racismAnissa I Vines
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 266 Rosenau Hall, CB 7435, NC 27599, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 101:156-60. 2009..African American mothers may experience the additional stress of their child (ren) experiencing racism. We describe the stress that African American women have about their children experiencing racism... - Associations of abdominal fat with perceived racism and passive emotional responses to racism in African American womenAnissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Am J Public Health 97:526-30. 2007..Passive emotional responses to perceived racism, hypothesized to have particularly adverse effects, were also examined... - Social correlates of the chronic stress of perceived racism among Black womenAnissa I Vines
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Ethn Dis 16:101-7. 2006..This study describes the perceptions of racism, passive and active responses to this psychosocial stressor, and it examines socioeconomic correlates of perceived racism in an economically diverse population of Black women... - Cross-sectional association between perceived discrimination and hypertension in African-American men and women: the Pitt County StudyCalpurnyia B Roberts
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, USA
Am J Epidemiol 167:624-32. 2008..These results indicate that the type and frequency of discrimination perceived by African-American men and women may differentially affect their risk of hypertension... - The art and science of integrating Undoing Racism with CBPR: challenges of pursuing NIH funding to investigate cancer care and racial equityMichael A Yonas
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Urban Health 83:1004-12. 2006..Expectation, acceptance and negotiation of conflict were essential in the process of developing, preparing and submitting our NIH application. Central to negotiating these and other challenges has been the utilization of a CBPR approach... 
A community-academic partnership to plan and implement an evidence-based lay health advisor program for promoting breast cancer screeningRandall Teal
Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC, USA
J Health Care Poor Underserved 23:109-20. 2012..We used in-depth interviews to explore the relationship of the partnership to the activities that were undertaken to launch the evidence-based program...- Engaging African American breast cancer survivors in an intervention trial: culture, responsiveness and communityBarbara B Germino
School of Nursing, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, CB 7460, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
J Cancer Surviv 5:82-91. 2011..In a randomized clinical trial of an intervention, we successfully used culturally informed, population-specific recruitment and retention strategies to engage younger African-American breast cancer survivors...
Research Grants
- Psychosocial Stress and the Risk of Uterine FibroidsANISSA VINES; Fiscal Year: 2007..The proposed research is an under-investigated area of women's health that has the potential to inform reproductive epidemiology as well as improve our understanding of the pathogenesis of uterine fibroids. ..