4 results match your criteria: "UConn School of Social Work[Affiliation]"
Economic Fragility of Older Adults: Factors Contributing to a Continuing Crisis.
J Aging Soc Policy
August 2024
UConn School of Social Work, Independent Gerontology Consultant, West Hartford, CT, USA.
With rapid population aging in the U.S. a greater number of older adults now experience economic insecurity, a situation disproportionately affecting older people of color.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPsychological distress and health behaviours among Cambodian Americans at risk for developing diabetes.
Stress Health
April 2023
Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, Connecticut, USA.
This paper reports secondary data analysis of associations between psychological distress and health behaviours among Cambodian Americans. Data are from baseline assessments from a diabetes prevention trial. All participants met stucriteria for depression and were free of diabetes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRelationship of alcohol use and facial flushing to blood pressure and HbA1c among Cambodian populations with dysglycemia in the U.S. and in Cambodia.
Diabetes Metab Syndr
January 2022
UConn Schools of Medicine and Dental Medicine, USA. Electronic address:
Background And Aims: Facial flushing after drinking alcohol, common among Asians, is a phenotype for genes involved in alcohol metabolism.
Methods: We investigated cross-sectional associations between flushing, alcohol use, blood pressure (BP) and HbA1c among (n = 287) Cambodians with dysglycemia in Cambodia and in the U.S.
The Disproportional Impact of COVID-19 on African Americans.
Health Hum Rights
December 2020
PhD student and Research and Teaching Assistant at the UConn School of Social Work, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA.