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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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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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Fostering Health Equity: Clinical and Research Training Strategies from Nursing Education
Kaohsiung Journal of Medical Sciences, 2009 Racism, ethnocentrism, segregation, stereotyping, and classism are tightly linked to health equity and social determinants of health. They lead to lack of power, money, resources, and education which may result in poor health care access and outcomes ...
Janet A. Deatrick +7 more
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Journal of Translational Medicine, 2022 Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality. Oral health is associated with smoking and cardiovascular outcomes, but there are gaps in knowledge of many mechanisms connecting smoking to cardiovascular risk.
Katherine A. Maki +7 more
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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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Clinical Medicine Insights: Oncology, 2008 A prospective analysis of women with terminal breast cancer admitted to CHNE from November 2006-August 2007 evaluated anecdotal observations that African American (AA) women are likelier than Caucasian women to evidence loco-regional recurrences (LRR ...
Gerardo Colón-Otero M.D. +7 more
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Preventive Medicine Reports, 2022 Acculturation and depression are linked to poor sleep quality and sleep problems that may explain ongoing health disparities for Hispanics/Latinos. We examined the associations of acculturation, depression, and sleep duration among the Mexican American ...
Cameron K. Ormiston +4 more
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Health Disparities in Women [PDF]
Clinical Medicine Insights: Women's Health, 2017 Aims and scope: Clinical Medicine Insights: Women’s Health is an international, open-access, peer-reviewed journal which considers manuscripts on all aspects of the diagnosis, management, and prevention of disorders specific to women, in addition to related genetic, pathophysiological, and epidemiological topics.
Hornbuckle, Lyndsey M +7 more
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Cancer Medicine, 2023 Background Retinoblastoma is a rare malignancy involving the retina, although, more common among children, with genetic inheritance explaining the incidence as well as acquired forms.
Laurens Holmes Jr. +7 more
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