Faculty

Background and Expertise:

Cultural Competency; Women’s Health; Cardiovascular Disease

Cultural and gender perceptions can play a critical role in health promotion and disease prevention and intervention. Unfortunately, health professionals are often unaware of  such perceptions or, if aware, not clear on how to deal with them.   The focus of my research interests are in understanding the role of gender-specific and cultural perceptions of diseases and their risk factors among different cultural groups. For example, what, if any, urgent actions will a man or woman of a certain culture take at the first signs and symptoms of a heart attack; will a woman prefer taking an herbal remedy rather than a prescribed medication for an illness; will a man refuse an examination because it insults his masculinity?  A current project is Acute Coronary Syndrome:  Time To Arrival In A Diverse Urban Setting, a study examining the urgent actions of culturally diverse men and women when faced with the signs and symptoms of an acute heart attack. 

Courses Taught:

CHSC 5203:  Sex, Gender, Race, and Ethnicity

CHSC 5302:  Social Marketing

CHSC 5310:  Independent Study

HPMG 7205:  Interdisciplinary Leadership in Public Health

Current Projects

Acute Coronary Syndrome:  Time To Arrival In A Diverse Urban Setting

 

Publications, 2000-Current

• Books/Book Chapters

Alexander, Linda L, Judith H. LaRosa, Helaine Bader, and Susan Garfield. New Dimensions in  Women’s Health.  4th  edition. Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishing Company, 2006.   5th edition (2010)

LaRosa, Judith H. and John C. LaRosa. Cardiometabolic Risk Factors and CVD in Women.  Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes. (ed: Luther Clark, Samy McFarlane). McGraw-Hill. 2006, 456-471.

LaRosa, John C. and Judith H. LaRosa. Dyslipoproteinämien bei Frauen. Handbuch  der Fettstoffwechsel-störungen. Stuttgart:  Schattauer 2006, 969-978.

LaRosa, John C. and Judith H. LaRosa.  Präventionsstrategien bei Dyslipoptoteinamie.

Handbuch  der Fettstoffwechsel-störungen. Stuttgart:  Schattauer 2001, 745-763.

• Articles

LaRosa, Judith H. and John C. LaRosa. Coronary Heart Disease in Women:  Focus on Lipids. (2006). Minerva Cardioangiologic, 54(3): 311-321.

Yadav Kabir, Shahriar Zetabchi, Nicole Johnson, Danielle Mailloux, Luarie Dubois, Renaldo Austin, Edmond Malka, Judith H. LaRosa.  2005. Predictors of Inner-city Recurrent Violence-related Injuries. The American Journal of Emergency Medicine.23(7): 922-924.

Imperato Pascal James, Judith H LaRosa, and Leslie Schechter. (2005).  The development of a Master of Public Health program with an initial focus on urban and immigrant health at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center.  Journal of Community Health, 30(6): 417-449.

Nicasio J, El-Atat F, McFarlane SI, LaRosa JH. (2005). Cardiovascular disease in diabetes and the cardiometabolic syndrome: focus on minority women. Current Diabetes Report:.5(3):208-13.

LaRosa, Judith H. A spectrum of sex differences across a disease:  Coronary Heart Disease. In Exploring the Biological Contributions to Human Health:  Does Sex Matter? TM Wizeman and ML Pardue (editors), Washington, DC:  National Academy Press, 2001. 125-133.

LaRosa, Judith H. and John C. LaRosa. 2000. Care and compliance: Enhancing adherence in lipid lowering medications. Archives of Family Medicine, 9: 1169-1175, 2000.