Journal of Community & Public Health Nursing
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Ola S. Rostant

National Institute on Aging, NIA/NIH/IRP, Baltimore, USA

Biography

Dr. Ola Rostant is a research investigator in the Health and Retirement Study. She has a PhD in Measurement and Quantitative Methods from Michigan State University and was a postdoctoral research fellow at the National Institute on Aging, Intramural Research Program and a mental health services research fellow in the University of Michigan’s department of psychiatry. Her research interests include cognitive aging and mental health among African Americans, latent growth modeling and measurement invariance of health outcomes measures.

Publications

Significant Associative Factors for Hypertension Among New US Immigrants: An exploration of the 2003 New Immigrant Survey (NIS) Data

Background: Immigrants make up a large number of the US population and are at risk for poor health outcomes such as hypertension, a major public health concern. Little is known about the associating factors of hypertension among recent US immigrants. Method: Using the New Immigrant Survey (NIS) data with a subsample of 7539, we attempt to address ... Read More»

Marie-Anne S. Rosemberg, Vicki Johnson-Lawrence, Ola S. Rostant and Marjorie C. McCullagh

Research Article: J Comm Pub Health Nurs 2016, 2:2

DOI: 10.4172/2471-9846.1000118

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