In this Issue

Table of Contents

A Note from the Editor

Virginia M. Brennan
pp. vii-x
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0010
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Heroes and Great Ideas Column

A Sterling Legacy

J.W. Jamerson
pp. 1-9
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0011
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Association of Clinicians for the Underserved (ACU) Column

Rural Health Issues in HIV/AIDS: Views from Two Different Windows

Pamela H. Foster, Ellis Frazier
pp. 10-15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0004
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Commentaries

The Need for Diversity in the Environmental Health Workforce

Bailus Walker, Melvin Spann
pp. 16-25
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0009
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Changing Corporate Practices to Reduce Cancer Disparities

Nicholas Freudenberg, Sandro Galea, Marianne Fahs
pp. 26-40
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0012
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Part I: Racial/Ethnic Differences, Disparities, and Discrimination in Health Care

Original Papers

Quality of Anticoagulation Control: Do Race and Language Matter?

Vijay K. Bhandari, Frances Wang, Andrew B. Bindman, Dean Schillinger
pp. 41-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0002
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Perspectives of African American, Amish, Appalachian and Latina Women on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Implications for Cultural Competence

Patricia Isabel Documét, Heidi Hauser Green, Janet Adams, Lou Ann Weil, Jami Stockdale, Yll Hyseni
pp. 56-74
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0018
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Age and Race/Ethnicity-Gender Predictors of Denying Smoking, United States

Monica A. Fisher, George W. Taylor, Brent J. Shelton, Sara Debanne
pp. 75-89
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0000
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Ethnic Differences and Treatment Trajectories in Chronic Kidney Disease

Sara Johnson, Dean E. Sidelinger, Estela Blanco, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Dina Macdonald, Vivian Reznik
pp. 90-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0007
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Black-White Disparities in Elderly Breast Cancer Mortality Before and After Implementation of Medicare Benefits for Screening Mammography

Robert S. Levine, Nathaniel C. Briggs, Kimyona Roberts, Barbara E. Kilbourne, Baqar A. Husaini, Peter A. Baltrus, George E. Rust, Shanita Williams-Brown, Lee Caplan
pp. 103-134
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0019
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Predictors of Cancer Screening Among Low-Income Primary Care Patients

Erica I. Lubetkin, Annabel Santana, Alan Tso, Haomiao Jia
pp. 135-148
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0001
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The Effects of Perceived Discrimination on Diabetes Management

Andrew M. Ryan, Gilbert C. Gee, Derek Griffith
pp. 149-163
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0005
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Part II: Community Contexts and Health

Brief Communications

The Feasibility of Expectant Management with Inner-city Men with Newly Diagnosed Localized Prostate Cancer

Satoshi Anai, Kogenta Nakamura, John Pendleton, Saif Yacoub, Charles J. Rosser, Myron Chang
pp. 164-170
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0024
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Design and Reach of a Primary Care Weight Management Program

Daniel O. Clark, Nicole Keith, Lisa Chrysler, Anthony J. Perkins, Deanna Willis
pp. 171-179
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0014
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Project HEAL: Peer Education Leads to Weight Loss in Harlem

Judith Z. Goldfinger, Guedy Arniella, Judith Wylie-Rosett, Carol R. Horowitz
pp. 180-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0016
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Religion and Health Connection: A Study of African American, Protestant Christians

Melvin E. Gonnerman, Gene M. Lutz, Michele Yehieli, Bruce K. Meisinger
pp. 193-199
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0020
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Original Papers

Longitudinal Quality of Life in Low-Income Men in a State-Funded Prostate Cancer Treatment Program

Mary Wassel Zavala, David C. Miller, Arlene Fink, Mark S. Litwin, Sally L. Maliski, Lorna Kwan
pp. 200-215
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0026
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Hair Salon Stylists as Breast Cancer Prevention Lay Health Advisors for African American and Afro-Caribbean Women

Tracey E. Wilson, Marilyn Fraser-White, Ruth Browne, Joseph Feldman, Marlene Price, Peter Homel, Stacey Wright, Sonia Banks, Gwendolyn King, Beverly Coll, Donna Davis-King
pp. 216-226
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0017
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Part III: Infants, Children, and Young People

Brief Communications

Coping with Asthma in the Central City: Parental Experiences with Children’s Health Care

Sara Grineski
pp. 227-236
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0025
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Children’s Mental Health Care: Differences by Race/Ethnicity in Urban/Rural Areas

Embry Howell, Joshua McFeeters
pp. 237-247
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0008
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Multi-method Approach to Evaluate Inequities in Prenatal Care Access in Haiti

Leslie King-Schultz, Rhonda Jones-Webb
pp. 248-257
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0015
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Original Papers

Systematic Prenatal Screening for Psychosocial Risks

Patricia A. Harrison, Abbey C. Sidebottom
pp. 258-276
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0003
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Assessing the Moderating Effects of Anxiety Sensitivity on Antisocial Behavior among Urban African American Youth

Eugene Von Nebbitt, Margaret Lombe, James Herbert Williams
pp. 277-293
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0023
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Part IV: Health Care Utilization and Access

Original Papers

Health Care Utilization: The Experiences of Rural HIV-positive African American Women

Medha V. Vyavaharkar, Linda Moneyham, Sara Corwin
pp. 294-306
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0013
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State Medicaid Coverage and Access to Care for Low-income Adults

Joel S. Weissman, Alan M. Zaslavsky, Robert E. Wolf, John Z. Ayanian
pp. 307-319
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0021
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Review

Cities and the Health of the Public (review)

Rashiah Elam, Paul Meissner
pp. 320-322
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0022
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Books for Review

Recently Received

p. 323
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/hpu.2008.0006
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