Masayoshi Oka
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1.
Oka M
J Urban Health
. 2023 Aug;
100(5):987-1006.
PMID: 37581710
Residential segregation has been considered as a potential cause of racial and/or ethnic disparities in health. Among the five dimensions of residential segregation, the isolation dimension has been conceived to...
2.
Oka M
Int J Environ Res Public Health
. 2023 Jan;
20(1).
PMID: 36612534
Previous studies suggested either census-tract-level median household income (MHI) or median family income (MFI) estimates may be used as a unidimensional measure of neighborhood socioeconomic status (SES) in the United...
3.
Oka M, Williams F, Whiteside M
SSM Popul Health
. 2022 Jun;
19:101146.
PMID: 35756544
The purpose of this study was to understand whether proxy measures of county-level racial isolation (based on racial compositions) would yield similar results as the formal measures of county-level racial...
4.
Oka M
Arch Public Health
. 2021 Dec;
79(1):226.
PMID: 34911564
Background: Standardization and normalization of continuous covariates are used to ease the interpretation of regression coefficients. Although these scaling techniques serve different purposes, they are sometimes used interchangeably or confused...
5.
Ekenga C, Yeung C, Oka M
Environ Res
. 2019 Nov;
179(Pt B):108844.
PMID: 31708169
Background: A growing body of research has examined relationships between neighborhood characteristics and exposure to air toxics in the United States. However, a limited number of studies have addressed neighborhood...
6.
Oka M, Wong D
J Urban Health
. 2016 May;
93(3):551-71.
PMID: 27197736
Area-based measures of neighborhood characteristics simply derived from enumeration units (e.g., census tracts or block groups) ignore the potential of spatial spillover effects, and thus incorporating such measures into multilevel...
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Oka M, Wong D
Front Public Health
. 2014 Sep;
2:118.
PMID: 25202687
Two conceptual and methodological foundations of segregation studies are that (i) segregation involves more than one group, and (ii) segregation measures need to quantify how different population groups are distributed...
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Perceived barriers to mammography among underserved women in a Breast Health Center Outreach Program
Fayanju O, Kraenzle S, Drake B, Oka M, Goodman M
Am J Surg
. 2014 Jun;
208(3):425-34.
PMID: 24908357
Background: To investigate perceived barriers to mammography among underserved women, we asked participants in the Siteman Cancer Center Mammography Outreach Registry-developed in 2006 to evaluate mobile mammography's effectiveness among the...
9.
James P, Berrigan D, Hart J, Hipp J, Hoehner C, Kerr J, et al.
Health Place
. 2014 Mar;
27:162-70.
PMID: 24607875
Uncertainty in the relevant spatial context may drive heterogeneity in findings on the built environment and energy balance. To estimate the effect of this uncertainty, we conducted a sensitivity analysis...
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Oka M, Link C, Kawachi I
J Urban Health
. 2012 Jun;
90(3):442-63.
PMID: 22700325
This study examines the area-based variations in obesity from a community-based epidemiologic survey of Boston, MA, USA, using a geographic information system and multilevel modeling techniques. A combination of quantitative...