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Telemedicine and Health Disparities [PDF]
Clinical Liver Disease, 2022 Content available: Author Audio Recording.
Jennifer C. Price, Dinee C. Simpson
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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 +4 more
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Health Disparities in Asthma [PDF]
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, 2012 Minority groups represent an important and growing segment of the population of the United States, which is projected to comprise 47% non-Hispanic whites, 29% Hispanics, 13% non-Hispanic blacks, and 9% Asians by 2050 (1). Although asthma affects all ethnic groups, the burden from this disease is disproportionately shared by certain minority groups ...
Erick, Forno, Juan C, Celedón
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Dermatologic Health Disparities [PDF]
Dermatologic Clinics, 2012 Although significant data highlight the extent of health disparities, data regarding dermatologic health disparities are limited. Ethnic minorities, people of low socioeconomic status, the less educated, elderly, and uninsured have poorer melanoma and nonmelanoma skin cancer outcomes.
Buster, Kesha J. +2 more
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Health disparity and cancer health disparity in China
Asia-Pacific Journal of Oncology Nursing, 2016 China is one of the largest and most populated countries in the world. It has undergone rapid economic growth in recent years. However, the development is not equitable, and the distribution of wealth significantly varies among the regions in China.
Qi Wang, Jie Jiao
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Public Health Reports, 2002 With the launch of Healthy People 2010 in January 2000, the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) committed the nation to an overarching goal, to “eliminate health disparities.” Like the preceding Healthy People 2000 initiative, Healthy People 2010 outlines a comprehensive disease prevention and health promotion agenda.
Carter-Pokras, Olivia, Baquet, Claudia
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Health Disparities and the Microbiome [PDF]
Trends in Microbiology, 2016 An individual's microbiome is likely to be an important contributor to certain health disparity diseases and conditions. We present a framework to study the role of the microbiome and the multiple factors that are likely to influence differences in disease predisposition, onset, and progression at the individual and population level.
Keisha, Findley +3 more
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Geographic social vulnerability is associated with the alpha diversity of the human microbiome
mSystems, 2023 The human microbiome ecosystems living within the human body are exposed to exogenous foreign substances from the various environments that humans live within.
Nicole Farmer +7 more
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American Journal of Men's Health, 2020 While there is evidence of variations in the risk perceptions of COVID-19 and that they are linked to both engagement in health-protective behaviors and poor mental health outcomes, there has been a lack of attention to how individuals perceive the risk ...
Rob Stephenson +6 more
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Epigenetics and Health Disparities [PDF]
Current Epidemiology Reports, 2017 African Americans disproportionately suffer from leading causes of morbidity and mortality including cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, and preterm birth. Disparities can arise from multiple social and environmental exposures, but how the human body responds to these exposures to result in pathophysiologic states is incompletely understood ...
Alexis D, Vick, Heather H, Burris
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