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Disparities in the analysis of morphological disparity [PDF]

Biology Letters, 2020
Analyses of morphological disparity have been used to characterize and investigate the evolution of variation in the anatomy, function and ecology of organisms since the 1980s. While a diversity of methods have been employed, it is unclear whether they provide equivalent insights. Here, we review the most commonly used approaches for characterizing and
Guillerme, Thomas, Cooper, Natalie, Brusatte, Stephen, Davis, Katie, Jackson, Andrew, Gerber, Sylvain, Goswami, Anjali, Healy, Kevin, Hopkins, Melanie, Jones, Marc, Lloyd, Graeme, O'Reilly, Joseph, Pate, Abi, Puttick, Mark, Rayfield, Emily, Saupe, Erin, Sherratt, Emma, Slater, Graham, Weisbecker, Vera, Thomas, Gavin, Donoghue, Philip   +20 more
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Baquet, Claudia R, Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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Fairness Beyond Disparate Treatment & Disparate Impact [PDF]

Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on World Wide Web, 2017
To appear in Proceedings of the 26th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW), 2017.
Zafar, M., Valera, I., Gomez Rodriguez, M., Gummadi, K.   +3 more
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The role of data in health care disparities in medicaid managed care [PDF]

, 2012
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to standardize the collection of data on health care quality that can be used to measure disparities.
Bindman, Andrew B., Guthrie, Bruce, Moskowitz, David   +2 more
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Race/ethnicity-specific associations between breastfeeding information source and breastfeeding rates among U.S. women

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Despite evidence of the impact of breastfeeding information on breastfeeding rates, it is unknown if information sources and impact vary by race/ethnicity, thus this study assessed race/ethnicity-specific associations between breastfeeding ...
Stephanie M. Quintero, Paula D. Strassle, Amalia Londoño Tobón, Stephanie Ponce, Alia Alhomsi, Ana I. Maldonado, Jamie S. Ko, Miciah J. Wilkerson, Anna María Nápoles   +8 more
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Adjusting expected deaths for mortality displacement during the COVID-19 pandemic: a model based counterfactual approach at the level of individuals

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2023
Background Near-real time surveillance of excess mortality has been an essential tool during the COVID-19 pandemic. It remains critical for monitoring mortality as the pandemic wanes, to detect fluctuations in the death rate associated both with the ...
Richard James Holleyman, Sharmani Barnard, Clarissa Bauer-Staeb, Andrew Hughes, Samantha Dunn, Sebastian Fox, John N. Newton, Justine Fitzpatrick, Zachary Waller, David John Deehan, Andre Charlett, Celia L. Gregson, Rebecca Wilson, Paul Fryers, Peter Goldblatt, Paul Burton   +15 more
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Perinatal health care access, childbirth concerns, and birthing decision-making among pregnant people in California during COVID-19

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2021
Background During public health emergencies, including the COVID-19 pandemic, access to adequate healthcare is crucial for providing for the health and wellbeing of families.
Mackenzie D. M. Whipps, Jennifer E. Phipps, Leigh Ann Simmons   +2 more
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Disparities in defining disparities: Statistical conceptual frameworks [PDF]

Statistics in Medicine, 2008
AbstractMotivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for defining disparity measures.
Duan, Naihua, Meng, Xiao-li, Lin, Julia Y., Chen, Chih-nan, Alegria, Margarita   +4 more
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Latitude and longitude vertical disparities [PDF]

, 2009
The literature on vertical disparity is complicated by the fact that several different definitions of the term “vertical disparity” are in common use, often without a clear statement about which is intended or a widespread appreciation of the properties ...
Glennerster, Andrew, Phillipson, Graeme P., Read, Jenny C. A.   +2 more
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Increased Incidence of Loco-Regional Recurrences among African American Women with Terminal Stage Breast Cancer

Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology, 2008
A prospective analysis of women with terminal breast cancer admitted to CHNE from November 2006-August 2007 evaluated anecdotal observations that African American (AA) women are likelier than Caucasian women to evidence loco-regional recurrences (LRR ...
Gerardo Colón-Otero M.D., Sherry King, Vandelyn Smith, Carolyn Bieber, Julia Crook, Lawrence A. Solberg, Robert Shannon, Edith A. Perez   +7 more
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