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Health disparity and cancer health disparity in China

open access: yesAsia-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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What is a “health disparity”?

open access: yesPublic 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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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara   +2 more
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Inability to get needed health care during the COVID-19 pandemic among a nationally representative, diverse population of U.S. adults with and without chronic conditions

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2023
Background Delays in health care have been observed in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic; however, the prevalence of inability to get needed care and potential disparities in health care access have yet to be assessed.
Stephanie A. Ponce   +4 more
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Parent-child nativity, race, ethnicity, and mental health conditions among U.S. children

open access: yesEuropean Psychiatry, 2023
Introduction Over a quarter of U.S. children have at least one immigrant parent. Mental health disparities in children need to be assessed to better identify disproportionate burdens and promote health equity.
K. Zarei   +4 more
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Mental Health Disparities

open access: yesAmerican 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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Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Denial and Underreporting in Cisgender Male Couples

open access: yesPsychosocial Intervention, 2023
Intimate partner violence (IPV) perpetrators often deny their actions, limiting opportunities for intervention. Cisgender male couples experience similar IPV rates to mixed-gender couples, yet less is known about how men in same-sex relationships deny or
Alison R. Walsh, Rob Stephenson
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Cerebrovascular Health Disparities [PDF]

open access: yesStroke, 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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NIH-National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities-Strategic Plan and Budget to Reduce and Ultimately Eliminate Health Disparities [PDF]

open access: yes, 2002
Despite improvements in the overall health of the American people, ethnic and racial minorities and other underserved populations suffer from significant disparities in the burden of illness and premature death.
National Center on, Minority Health and Health Disparities
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Geographic social vulnerability is associated with the alpha diversity of the human microbiome

open access: yesmSystems, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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