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The Role of Public Health in Addressing Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mental Health and Mental Illness

Preventing Chronic Disease, 2010
Racial/ethnic minority populations are underserved in the American mental health care system. Disparity in treatment between whites and African Americans has increased substantially since the 1990s.
Annelle B. Primm, MD, MPH, Melba J. T. Vasquez, PhD, Robert A. Mays, PhD, MSW, Doreleena Sammons-Posey, SM, Lela R. McKnight-Eily, PhD, Letitia R. Presley-Cantrell, PhD, Lisa C. McGuire, PhD, Daniel P. Chapman, PhD, MSc, Geraldine S. Perry, DrPH, RD   +8 more
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2458 Determining the prevalence and associated multilevel characteristics of undiagnosed diabetic retinopathy

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2018
OBJECTIVES/SPECIFIC AIMS: Diabetic retinopathy is the leading cause of blindness in adults aged 25–64 years. The prevalence of diabetic retinopathy is projected to increase 4-fold by 2050. Racial and ethnic minorities have a higher prevalence and greater
Kristen Nwanyanwu, Marcella Nunez-Smith, Mayur Desai, Thomas Gardner   +3 more
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Understanding the Burden of Orofacial Involvement and Patient Treatment Preferences in Systemic Sclerosis: Results From a Large International Survey

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Orofacial manifestations are significantly impactful in patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc) yet remain understudied, with no dedicated clinical guidelines to inform their management. Methods An international online survey comprised38 questions addressing orofacial manifestations of SSc, including patients’ confidence in their treating ...
Eleni Deligianni, Lee Shapiro, Deana Gibbs, Zsuzsanna H. McMahan, Michael Hughes   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pasta, a Versatile Transcriptomic Clock, Maps the Chemical and Genetic Determinants of Aging and Rejuvenation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pasta is a transcriptomic aging clock built on an age‐shift learning framework and trained on 17 000 samples across 21 datasets. It accurately predicts relative biological age across tissues, platforms, and species, captures stemness‐to‐senescence transitions, and identifies age‐modulatory perturbations.
Jérôme Salignon, Maria Tsiokou, Patricia Marqués, Enriqueta Rodríguez‐Diaz, Hazel Ang, Federico Pietrocola, Christian G. Riedel   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Measuring Nutrition Security Using the Consumer Food Data System Datasets

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Nutrition security is an emerging concept lacking a consensus definition, conceptualization, or standardized measure. This perspectives manuscript synthesizes findings from two previously published analyses to assess the feasibility of using available measures of key dimensions of nutrition security from two Consumer Food Data System (CFDS ...
Vibha Bhargava, Jung Sun Lee, Travis A. Smith   +2 more
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Overlooked Intersection of Gender and Racial/Ethnic Dimensions in Slovenian Academic Sexual Harassment & Violence Policies

Annales, Series Historia et Sociologia
This article addresses the need to adopt an intersectional perspective when discussing sexual harassment and violence in academia. The introduction of an intersectional perspective is important since sexual harassment and violence in relation to racial ...
Lucija Dežan, Mateja Sedmak, Zorana Medaric   +2 more
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Cultural Competence and Ethnic Diversity in Healthcare

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Global Open, 2019
Summary:. Today’s model of healthcare has persistent challenges with cultural competency, and racial, gender, and ethnic disparities. Health is determined by many factors outside the traditional healthcare setting.
Lakshmi Nair, BS, Oluwaseun A. Adetayo, MD   +1 more
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Do Universal Free School Meals Improve the Dietary Quality of Food‐At‐Home Purchases?

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Since 2014, the number of schools offering universal free meals to all enrolled children without requiring annual meal applications has increased meaningfully. Using USDA's Purchase to Plate Crosswalk, a difference‐in‐differences framework, and a nationwide consumer panel, the effect of universal‐free‐meal exposure on the diet quality of food ...
Xueying Ma, Andres Cuadros‐Meñaca, Michael R. Thomsen   +2 more
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A qualitative investigation of financial decision-making and enabling factors among ethnic minority young adults in Hong Kong

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Current understanding of financial decision-making among racial/ethnic minority young adults is limited: day-to-day financial decisions of racial/ethnic minorities are underexamined, younger racial/ethnic minorities receive limited attention, studies on ...
Esther Yin-Nei Cho
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source