Isaac N Luginaah
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Recent Articles
1.
Sharma I, Campbell M, Heisel M, Choi Y, Luginaah I, Were J, et al.
PLoS One
. 2023 Nov;
18(11):e0293515.
PMID: 37971982
Area-level factors may partly explain the heterogeneity in risk factors and disease distribution. Yet, there are a limited number of studies that focus on the development and validation of the...
2.
Escobar K, Sivaram M, Gorey K, Luginaah I, Kanjeekal S, Wright F
J Public Health Res
. 2020 Sep;
9(3):1696.
PMID: 32874961
We examined paradoxical and advantaging effects on cancer care among socioeconomically vulnerable Hispanic people in California. We secondarily analyzed a colon cancer cohort of 3,877 non-Hispanic white (NHW) and 735...
3.
Boateng G, Adams E, Odei Boateng M, Luginaah I, Taabazuing M
PLoS One
. 2017 Nov;
12(11):e0186947.
PMID: 29117264
Background: The causes and health risks associated with obesity in young people have been extensively documented, but elderly obesity is less well understood, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. This study examines...
4.
Gorey K, Hamm C, Luginaah I, Zou G, Holowaty E
J Prim Care Community Health
. 2017 Jan;
8(3):127-134.
PMID: 28068854
Background: Better health care among Canada's socioeconomically vulnerable versus America's has not been fully explained. We examined the effects of poverty, health insurance and the supply of primary care physicians...
5.
Gorey K, Bartfay E, Kanjeekal S, Wright F, Hamm C, Luginaah I, et al.
BMJ Support Palliat Care
. 2016 Aug;
9(3):e24.
PMID: 27554266
Background: Many Americans with metastasised colon cancer do not receive indicated palliative chemotherapy. We examined the effects of health insurance and physician supplies on such chemotherapy in California. Methods: We...
6.
Haji-Jama S, Gorey K, Luginaah I, Zou G, Hamm C, Holowaty E
Cancer Control
. 2016 May;
23(2):157-62.
PMID: 27218793
Background: Interaction effects of poverty and health care insurance coverage on overall survival rates of breast cancer among women of color and non-Hispanic white women were explored. Methods: We analyzed...
7.
Luginaah I, Kangmennaang J, Fallah M, Dahn B, Kateh F, Nyenswah T
Soc Sci Med
. 2016 May;
160:75-86.
PMID: 27214711
In Liberia, 75% of those who died from 2014 Ebola epidemic were women and the effects of this gruelling epidemic were more severely felt by pregnant women. This immediately raised...
8.
Cumulative effects of noise and odour annoyances on environmental and health related quality of life
Oiamo T, Luginaah I, Baxter J
Soc Sci Med
. 2015 Nov;
146:191-203.
PMID: 26519604
Noise and odour annoyances are important considerations in research on health effects of air pollution and traffic noise. Cumulative exposures can occur via several chemical hazards or a combination of...
9.
Gorey K, Kanjeekal S, Wright F, Hamm C, Luginaah I, Bartfay E, et al.
Int J Equity Health
. 2015 Oct;
14:109.
PMID: 26511360
Background: Our research group advanced a health insurance theory to explain Canada's cancer care advantages over America. The late Barbara Starfield theorized that Canada's greater primary care-orientation also plays a...
10.
Gorey K, Richter N, Luginaah I, Hamm C, Holowaty E, Zou G, et al.
Soc Work Res
. 2015 Jul;
39(2):107-118.
PMID: 26180488
This historical study estimated the protective effects of a universally accessible, single-payer health care system versus a multi-payer system that leaves many uninsured or underinsured by comparing breast cancer care...