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Choosing an Optimal Method for Causal Decomposition Analysis: A Better Practice for Identifying Contributing Factors to Health Disparities [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Causal decomposition analysis provides a way to identify mediators that contribute to health disparities between marginalized and non-marginalized groups. In particular, the degree to which a disparity would be reduced or remain after intervening on a mediator is of interest.
arxiv  

Measuring Changes in Disparity Gaps: An Application to Health Insurance [PDF]

arXiv, 2022
We propose a method for reporting how program evaluations reduce gaps between groups, such as the gender or Black-white gap. We first show that the reduction in disparities between groups can be written as the difference in conditional average treatment effects (CATE) for each group.
arxiv  

Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health [PDF]

, 2019
Racial and ethnic disparities in health stem from the historical legacy and continued patterns of unequal resources and treatment on the basis of race/ethnicity in society (Hummer and Hamilton 2019; Williams and Sternthal 2010). Health disparities encompass differences in physical health, mental health, all-cause and cause-specific mortality risk ...
Lariscy, Joseph, Collins, Sarah, Tasmim, Samia   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Multi‐institutional study on image quality for a novel CBCT solution on O‐ring linac

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Introduction This work presents a multi‐institutional study on image quality provided by a novel cone beam computed tomography (CBCT). The main goal is to investigate the consistency of imaging performance across multiple institutions.
Luis Agulles‐Pedrós, R. Lee MacDonald, Amanda Jean Cherpak, Nayha Dixit, Lei Dong, Tianyu Zhao, Kundan Thind, Anthony Doemer, Boon‐Keng Teo, Shiqin Su, Alexander Moncion, James L. Robar   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Prevalence of depressive symptoms among Hispanic/Latino ethnic subgroups during the COVID-19 pandemic

Scientific Reports
Hispanic/Latino populations experienced disproportionate exposure to depression risk factors during the COVID-19 pandemic. While aggregated data confirm the risks of depressive symptoms among Hispanic/Latino individuals, little research uses ...
Maryam Elhabashy, Jolyna Chiangong, Kevin Villalobos, Francisco A. Montiel Ishino, David Adzrago, Faustine Williams   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Life Course Approaches to the Causes of Health Disparities.

American Journal of Public Health, 2019
Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how socially patterned physical, environmental, and socioeconomic exposures at ...
N. Jones, S. Gilman, T. Cheng, S. Drury, C. Hill, A. Geronimus   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Dose rate correction of a diode array for universal wedge field dosimetric verification

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose To study the performance of MapCHECK 3 (MC3) in measuring universal wedge fields and propose a dose rate correction strategy to improve MC3 measurement accuracy. Materials and methods Universal wedge fields with different wedge angles and field sizes were measured at different depths using MC3.
Linyi Shen, Mengyang Li, Guiyuan Li, Xinyuan Chen, Shouping Xu, Jianrong Dai, Yuan Tian   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

American Twitter Users Revealed Social Determinants-related Oral Health Disparities amid the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Objectives: To assess self-reported population oral health conditions amid COVID-19 pandemic using user reports on Twitter. Method and Material: We collected oral health-related tweets during the COVID-19 pandemic from 9,104 Twitter users across 26 states (with sufficient samples) in the United States between November 12, 2020 and June 14, 2021.
arxiv  

Disparities in Access to Oral Health Care.

Annual Review of Public Health, 2020
In the United States, people are more likely to have poor oral health if they are low-income, uninsured, and/or members of racial/ethnic minority, immigrant, or rural populations who have suboptimal access to quality oral health care.
M. Northridge, Anjali Kumar, Raghbir Kaur   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Surface dose analysis and dosimetric comparison of Halcyon versus Truebeam in breast cancer radiotherapy: An OSL dosimetry study

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose Breast cancer is a neoplastic disease with high prevalence among women. Radiotherapy is one of the principal treatment modalities for this disease, but it poses significant challenges. This study aimed to compare and evaluate the technical and dosimetric performance of conventional C‐arm linac systems and a new design, Halcyon, in the ...
Mustafa Çağlar, Kudret Akçay, Esra Serin, Dursun Eşitmez, Mehmet Sıddık Cebe, Navid Kheradmand, Ömer Yazıcı, Dilek Ünal, Evrim Metcalfe   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source