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Grace X. Ma
Researcher at Temple University
Publications - 195
Citations - 4561
Grace X. Ma is an academic researcher from Temple University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Population & Medicine. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 155 publications receiving 3758 citations. Previous affiliations of Grace X. Ma include Fox Chase Cancer Center & University of California, Los Angeles.
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Cervical cancer prevention: new tools and old barriers
Isabel C. Scarinci,Francisco A.R. Garcia,Erin Kobetz,Edward E. Partridge,Heather M. Brandt,Maria C. Bell,Mark Dignan,Grace X. Ma,Jane L. Daye,Philip E. Castle +9 more
TL;DR: Together, HPV vaccination and testing, if used in an age‐appropriate manner, have the potential to transform cervical cancer prevention, particularly among underserved populations, Nevertheless, significant barriers of access, acceptability, and adoption to any cervical cancer Prevention strategy remain.
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Model Minority at Risk: Expressed Needs of Mental Health by Asian American Young Adults
Sunmin Lee,Hee Soon Juon,Genevieve Martinez,Chiehwen Ed Hsu,E. Stephanie Robinson,Julie Bawa,Grace X. Ma +6 more
TL;DR: The findings support a need for delivering culturally appropriate programs to raise awareness of mental health and cultural training for health providers to deliver culturally appropriate care.
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Structural Interventions to Reduce and Eliminate Health Disparities.
Arleen F. Brown,Grace X. Ma,Jeanne Miranda,Eugenia Eng,Dorothy Castille,Teresa Brockie,Patricia Jones,Collins O. Airhihenbuwa,Tilda Farhat,Lin Zhu,Chau Trinh-Shevrin +10 more
TL;DR: Highlights structural interventions that have yielded health benefits, discusses challenges and opportunities for accelerating improvements in minority health, and proposes recommendations to foster the development of structural interventions likely to advance health disparities research.
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Between two worlds: the use of traditional and Western health services by Chinese immigrants.
TL;DR: Results revealed several patterns of health-seeking and service utilization behaviors among the Chinese of Houston and Los Angeles, including high rates of self-treatment and home remedies; medium rates of utilization of integrated Western and traditional health services, including travel to country of origin for care; and low rates of exclusive utilization of Western or traditional Chinese treatments.
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Mechanisms of hepatocellular carcinoma progression.
Olorunseun O. Ogunwobi,Trisheena Harricharran,Jeannette Huaman,Anna Galuza,Oluwatoyin Odumuwagun,Yin Tan,Grace X. Ma,Minhhuyen Nguyen +7 more
TL;DR: This review provides a summary of some of the known mechanisms that either cause HCC or contribute to its progression and discusses the roles of viral hepatitis, non-viral hepatitis, chronic alcohol intake, genetic predisposition and congenital abnormalities, toxic exposures, and autoimmune diseases of the liver.