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Engendering Health Disparities [PDF]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2005 How is gender implicated in our exploration of health disparities in Canada? Set against the backdrop of federal government policy, this review paper examines the ways in which gender intersects with other health determinants to produce disparate health outcomes.
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Human Papilloma Virus-Associated Cervical Cancer and Health Disparities
Cells, 2019 Cervical cancer develops through persistent infection with high-risk human papilloma virus (hrHPV) and is a leading cause of death among women worldwide and in the United States.
Patti Olusola +3 more
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Cerebrovascular Health Disparities [PDF]
Stroke, 2005 In the United States, those at highest risk for stroke are the least aware of it. White and coauthors of the Northern Manhattan project in an article published in Circulation 1 report that the annual age adjusted incidence of first ischemic stroke per 100 000 was 88 in whites, 149 in Hispanics and 191 in blacks.
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Word-of-mouth recruiting: Why small businesses using this efficient practice should survive disparate impact challenges under title VII [PDF]
, 2006 Joe’s Widget Company, a sole proprietorship specializing in manufacturing and selling widgets to businesses and consumers, operates in a small community in the Midwest. Joe started the company eighteen years ago out of his own garage with a five thousand
Nelson, TM
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American Journal of Public Health, 2009 Mental health disparities have received increased attention in the literature in recent years. After considering 165 different health disparity conditions, the Federal Collaborative for Health Disparities Research chose mental health disparity as one of four topics warranting its immediate national research attention.
Marc A, Safran +7 more
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Age differences between sexual partners, behavioural and demographic correlates, and HIV infection on Likoma Island, Malawi [PDF]
, 2016 Patterns of age differences between sexual partners-"age-mixing"-may partially explain the magnitude of HIV epidemics in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, evidence of age-disparity as a risk factor for HIV remains mixed.
Beauclair, Roxanne +3 more
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Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2014 BACKGROUND: The recent literature has reported disparate views between patients and health care professionals regarding the roles of various factors affecting medication adherence.
Sandra Peláez +4 more
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Trust, Health Care Relationships, and Chronic Illness
Global Qualitative Nursing Research, 2016 Trust in health care relationships is a key ingredient of effective, high-quality care. Although the indirect influence of trust on health outcomes has long been recognized, recent research has shown that trust has a direct effect on outcomes of care ...
Carole A. Robinson
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Working Order: Health, Personal Responsibility, and Rights in an Age of Limited Agency
Christian Journal for Global Health, 2019 A seeming contradiction exists between the approach to health as a fundamental human right or as the natural consequence of human responsibility. This paper investigates a Christian approach to health attempting to reconcile these disparate views.
Mark Crouch
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2023 Food is a basic need, but seldom a basic policy area. Food systems are widely governed by disconnected policies distributed across a range of sectors including agriculture, education, health, environment, economy, and security.
Elisabeth Andrews +13 more
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