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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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BMC Public Health, 2021 Background Among U.S. adults with physician-diagnosed arthritis, we examined the association of 1) participant race/ethnicity with meeting physical activity guidelines and arthritis symptoms, and 2) the association of receipt of a physician exercise ...
Jeremy Huckleby +3 more
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The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Framework
American Journal of Public Health, 2019 We introduce the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) research framework, a product that emerged from the NIMHD science visioning process. The NIMHD research framework is a multilevel, multidomain model that depicts a wide
J. Alvidrez +4 more
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Implementation of an unconscious bias course for the National Research Mentoring Network
BMC Medical Education, 2022 Purpose Increased awareness and mitigation of one’s unconscious bias is a critical strategy in diversifying the Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, and Medicine (STEMM) disciplines and workforce.
Damaris Javier +8 more
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Social disparity and oral health [PDF]
Brazilian Oral Research, 2012 There is a clear reported association between social disparity and oral health, for example, between dental caries and malnutrition in children. This fact is detected in several studies, and also found amongst the Brazilian population. However, several efforts have been made to improve the quality of life of the population and to achieve the 2015 ...
Navarro, Maria Fidela de Lima +2 more
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An overview of cancer health disparities: new approaches and insights and why they matter
Carcinogenesis, 2020 Cancer health disparities remain stubbornly entrenched in the US health care system. The Affordable Care Act was legislation to target these disparities in health outcomes.
T. Minas +3 more
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Disparities in Health Care and the Digital Divide
Current Psychiatry Reports, 2021 Purpose of Review Disparities in health outcomes are a well documented and worrisome part of our health care system. These disparities persist in spite of, and are occasionally exacerbated by, new technologies that are intended to improve health care ...
S. Saeed, Ross MacRae Masters
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BMC Public Health, 2023 Background Evidence for the association between social determinants of health (SDoH) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is largely based on single SDoH measures, with limited evaluation of cumulative social disadvantage.
Kobina Hagan +11 more
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A reference-invariant health disparity index based on Rényi divergence [PDF]
Annals of Applied Statistics 2013, Vol. 7, No. 2, 1217-1243, 2013 One of four overarching goals of Healthy People 2020 (HP2020) is to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve the health of all groups. In health disparity indices (HDIs) such as the mean log deviation (MLD) and Theil index (TI), disparities are relative to the population average, whereas in the index of disparity (IDisp) the reference ...
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Exploring the Relationship Between COVID-19 Induced Economic Downturn and Women's Nutritional Health Disparities [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This study explores how the COVID-19 pandemic's economic impact has exacerbated nutritional health disparities among women. It sought to understand the effects of economic challenges on women's dietary choices and access to nutritious food across different socioeconomic groups.
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