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Green Space and Health Equity: A Systematic Review on the Potential of Green Space to Reduce Health Disparities

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
Disadvantaged groups worldwide, such as low-income and racially/ethnically minoritized people, experience worse health outcomes than more privileged groups, including wealthier and white people.
A. Rigolon, M. Browning, O. McAnirlin, H. Yoon   +3 more
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Disparities in Remote Learning Faced by First-Generation and Underrepresented Minority Students During COVID-19: Insights and Opportunities from a Remote Research Experience.

Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic forced an unprecedented shift to remote instruction across higher education, potentially magnifying inequities faced by First-Generation and underrepresented minority (URM) college students, especially in STEM.
Paul H. Barber, Casey Shapiro, Molly S. Jacobs, Leslie Avilez, Katherine I. Brenner, Carmen Cabral, monika Cebreros, Evan Cosentino, Candice Cross, Monica L. Gonzalez, Kaila T. Lumada, Alison T. Menjivar , Jennifer Narvaez , Rebecca Phelan , Destiney Purdy , Saima Salam , Leah Serrano , Miguel J. Velasco , Erick Zerecero Marin , Marc Levis-Fitzgerald   +19 more
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Going virtual during the COVID-19 pandemic: adaptation of a mixed-methods dietary behavior study within a community-based participatory research study of African-American adults at risk for cardiovascular disease

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Identifying mechanisms to maintain CBPR studies during an infectious disease pandemic is vital. The current paper describes the changes in methods and processes conducted within a CBPR mixed-methods study to a virtual setting during the novel ...
Nicole Farmer, Ralph Thadeus Tuason, Narjis Kazmi, Sharon Flynn, Valerie Mitchell, Kimberly Middleton, Robert Cox, Kristina Franklin, Talya Gordon, Alyssa Baginski, Gwenyth R. Wallen   +10 more
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Tobacco and Health Disparities [PDF]

BioMed Research International, 2015
Tobacco use is a major threat to public health and if current consumption patterns remain unchanged, it will result in one billion deaths in 21st century [1]. A combination of public health efforts in recent years has resulted in a general decline in the prevalence of tobacco use worldwide; however, the total number of smokers has increased due to ...
Kamran Siddiqi, Mohammed Jawad, Nasir Mushtaq, Shehzad Ali, Javaid Ahmed Khan   +4 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, 2022
The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities.
Ani A Kardashian, M. Serper, N. Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
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Instructions for Authors

, 2012
The Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice publishes research to guide the development of evidence-based solutions, policy and programs in an effort to reduce and ultimately eliminate health disparities.

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Recommendations for Using Causal Diagrams to Study Racial Health Disparities.

American Journal of Epidemiology, 2022
There have been calls for race to be denounced as a biological variable and for a greater focus on racism, instead of solely race, when studying racial health disparities in the United States.
C. Howe, Zinzi Bailey, J. Raifman, J. Jackson   +3 more
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Impact of dementia: Health disparities, population trends, care interventions, and economic costs

Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2021
The dementia experience is not a monolithic phenomenon—and while core elements of dementia are considered universal—people living with dementia experience the disorder differently. Understanding the patterning of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias
M. Aranda, I. Kremer, L. Hinton, Julie M. Zissimopoulos, R. Whitmer, Cynthia Huling Hummel, L. Trejo, C. Fabius   +7 more
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Advancing Health Equity And Reducing Health Disparities For People With Disabilities In The United States.

Health Affairs, 2022
Definitions of disability have evolved over time. Consistent with the biopsychosocial model used by the World Health Organization, we conceptualize disability as an interaction between a person's functional impairments or chronic health conditions and ...
Monika Mitra, Linda M. Long-Bellil, Ian Moura, A. Miles, H. Kaye   +4 more
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A lower sleep regularity index (SRI) is associated with relapse in individuals with alcohol use disorder following inpatient treatment

Scientific Reports, 2022
The sleep regularity index (SRI) is used to measure an individual’s sleep/wake consistency over time. The SRI has been associated with certain health risks; to date, research investigating the relationship between the SRI and relapse in individuals with ...
Jennifer J. Barb, Alyssa T. Brooks, Narjis Kazmi, Li Yang, Subhajit Chakravorty, Gwenyth R. Wallen   +5 more
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