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Disparities in Reproductive Aging and Midlife Health between Black and White women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)

Women's Midlife Health, 2022
This paper reviews differences in the experience of the menopause transition and midlife health outcomes between Black and White women who participated in the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN), a 25-year, longitudinal, multi-racial/ethnic ...
S. Harlow, Sherri-Ann M. Burnett-Bowie, G. Greendale, N. Avis, Alexis N. Reeves, Thomas R. Richards, T. Lewis   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Anti-racist interventions to reduce ethnic disparities in healthcare in the UK: an umbrella review and findings from healthcare, education and criminal justice

BMJ Open
Objectives To assess the evidence for anti-racist interventions which aim to reduce ethnic disparities in healthcare, with a focus on implementation in the UK healthcare system.Design Umbrella review.Data sources Embase, Medline, Social Policy and ...
Sophie Carter, Shoba Poduval, Jennifer L Y Yip, Kevin Fenton, Leah de Souza-Thomas   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The role of culturally competent communication in reducing ethnic and racial healthcare disparities. [PDF]

, 2004
Promoting culturally competent communication at the provider, care institution, health plan, and national levels is likely to contribute to success in reducing racial and ethnic disparities in the receipt of high quality care.
Lurie, Nicole, Taylor, Stephanie L
core   +1 more source

Examining socioeconomic health disparities using a rank-dependent Rényi index [PDF]

Annals of Applied Statistics 2015, Vol. 9, No. 2, 992-1023, 2015
The R\'{e}nyi index (RI) is a one-parameter class of indices that summarize health disparities among population groups by measuring divergence between the distributions of disease burden and population shares of these groups. The rank-dependent RI introduced in this paper is a two-parameter class of health disparity indices that also accounts for the ...
arxiv   +1 more source

Health Disparities in Genomics and Genetics [PDF]

Nursing Research and Practice, 2014
Disparities or inequities in health refer to sociodemographic group differences in the distribution of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care [1]. In order to eliminate health disparities, more efforts are needed to address social issues directly contributing to the healthy inequities observed across racial and ethnic groups.
Ida J. Spruill, Jacquelyn Taylor, Irma B. Ancheta, Adebowale A. Adeyemo, Yolanda Powell-Young, Willa Doswell   +5 more
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Secondary analysis of child hospital admission data for dental caries in London, UK: what the data tells us about oral health inequalities

BMJ Open, 2023
Objectives Dental caries is the most common reason for hospital admissions for children aged 6–10 years in England. The prevalence in the experience of hospital admission is not uniform across all populations.
Sarah Kaddour, Sebastian Slater, Robel Feleke, Gwen Doran, Louis Halpin, Anandagopal Srinivasan, Huda Yusuf   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors – a biomarker analysis of the ALICE and ICON trials

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In this explorative biomarker analysis, we assessed serial sampling of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) with CellSearch in two randomized trials testing immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in metastatic breast cancer. Our data demonstrate a prognostic potential of CTCs, most apparent 4 weeks into ICI therapy.
Nikolai Kragøe Andresen, Andreas Hagen Røssevold, Elin Borgen, Cecilie Bendigtsen Schirmer, Bjørnar Gilje, Øystein Garred, Jon Lømo, Marius Stensland, Oddmund Nordgård, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Randi R. Mathiesen, Hege G. Russnes, Jon Amund Kyte, Bjørn Naume   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

The relationship between the price and demand of alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, sugar-sweetened beverages, and gambling: an umbrella review of systematic reviews

BMC Public Health
Background The WHO highlight alcohol, tobacco, unhealthy food, and sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) taxes as one of the most effective policies for preventing and reducing the burden of non-communicable diseases.
Robyn Burton, Casey Sharpe, Saloni Bhuptani, Mike Jecks, Clive Henn, Nicola Pearce-Smith, Sandy Knight, Marguerite Regan, Nick Sheron   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Matching with multiple criteria and its application to health disparities research [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Matching is a popular nonparametric covariate adjustment strategy in empirical health services research. Matching helps construct two groups comparable in many baseline covariates but different in some key aspects under investigation. In health disparities research, it is desirable to understand the contributions of various modifiable factors, like ...
arxiv  

Engendering Health Disparities [PDF]

Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2005
How is gender implicated in our exploration of health disparities in Canada? Set against the backdrop of federal government policy, this review paper examines the ways in which gender intersects with other health determinants to produce disparate health outcomes.
openaire   +3 more sources