Against Colorectal Cancer in Our Neighborhoods, a Community-Based Colorectal Cancer Screening Program Targeting Low-Income Hispanics: Program Development and Costs.

Background: Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related death in the United States. Despite universal screening recommendations, screening rates in the United States remain suboptimal, especially among the poor, the uninsured, recent immigrants, and Hispanics. This article describes the development of a large community-based colorectal cancer screening program designed to address these disparities.

Analysis of the accuracy of weight loss information search engine results on the internet.

Objectives: We systematically identified and evaluated the quality and comprehensiveness of online information related to weight loss that users were likely to access.

Methods: We evaluated the content quality, accessibility of the information, and author credentials for Web sites in 2012 that were identified from weight loss specific queries that we generated. We scored the content with respect to available evidence-based guidelines for weight loss.

Attitudes toward self-sampling for cervical cancer screening among primary care attendees living on the US-Mexico border.

Background: Hispanic women living along the US border with Mexico have one of the highest cervical cancer mortality rates in the nation, owing in part to lower rates of screening. The barriers to screening in this population include lack of access to care and fear of and embarrassment about the pelvic examination. Screening for oncogenic or high-risk human papillomavirus during cervical cytology has been added to screening recommendations.

Functional limitations and nativity status among older Arab, Asian, black, Hispanic, and white Americans.

To examine the association between nativity status (foreign and US-born) by race/ethnicity (Arab, Asian, black, Hispanic, white) on having a functional limitation. We used American Community Survey data (2001-2007; n = 1,964,777; 65+ years) and estimated odds ratios (95% confidence intervals). In the crude model, foreign-born Blacks and Arabs were more likely, while Asians and Hispanics were less likely to report having a functional limitation compared to white.

Do college drinkers learn from their mistakes? Effects of recent alcohol-related consequences on planned protective drinking strategies among college freshmen.

This study examined whether recent alcohol-related consequences affect intentions to use protective drinking strategies. Responses were collected from incoming college freshmen (N = 84,367) at 279 U.S.

Use and correlates of protective drinking behaviors during the transition to college: analysis of a national sample.

Objective: This study examined patterns and correlates of protective drinking behaviors among incoming first-year college students.

Method: Incoming first-year students (n=76,882) from 258 colleges across the U.S.

Fake ID ownership in a US sample of incoming first-year college students.

Objective: One way that underage drinkers procure alcohol is by using a fake ID. This study examined demographic characteristics and alcohol-related problems associated with fake ID ownership among incoming first-year college students.

Method: We examined baseline data collected as part of a web-based alcohol education program that had been completed by a large, cross-sectional sample of incoming college freshmen from across the US.

Where do college students get health information? Believability and use of health information sources.

This study aims to identify predictors of use of health information sources among U.S. college students.

Racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause mortality in U.S. adults: the effect of allostatic load.

Objective: We investigated the association between a cumulative biological risk or allostatic score and all-cause mortality risk. We used 13,715 records of participants aged 25 years and older from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III) linked to the National Death Index.

Methods: We specified all-cause mortality using the underlying cause of death in the death certificate.