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Trends in immunization completion and disparities in the context of health reforms: the case study of Tanzania. [PDF]
, 2010 \ud Of global concern is the decline in under five children mortality which has reversed in some countries in sub Saharan Africa (SSA) since the early 1990 s which could be due to disparities in access to preventive services including immunization.
Semali, Innocent A
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The potential of low-intensity and online interventions for depression in low- and middle-income countries [PDF]
, 2016 The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are confronted with a serious ‘mental health gap’, indicating an enormous disparity between the number of individuals in need of mental health care and the ...
Bockting, C. L. H. +3 more
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Geosciences, 2015 Exposure to uranium can damage kidneys, increase long term risks of various cancers, and cause developmental and reproductive effects. Historically, home well water in Montana has not been tested for uranium. Data for the Crow Reservation from the United
Margaret J. Eggers +7 more
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AMA Journal of Ethics, 2001 Physicians need to educate patients about nutrition to counter the plethora of media images that promote poor dietary habits. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association.
K, Parsi, S, Taub
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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.
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Cerebrovascular Health Disparities [PDF]
Stroke, 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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American 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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An experimental investigation of the disparity between WTA and WTP for lotteries [PDF]
, 2009 In this paper we experimentally investigate the disparity between willingness-to-accept (WTA) and willingness-to-pay (WTP) for risky lotteries. The direction of the income effect is reversed by endowing subjects with the highest price of a lottery when ...
Schmidt, Ulrich, Traub, Stefan
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Towards Convergence: How to Do Transdisciplinary Environmental Health Disparities Research. [PDF]
, 2020 Increasingly, funders (i.e., national, public funders, such as the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation in the U.S.) and scholars agree that single disciplines are ill equipped to study the pressing social, health, and ...
Cannon, Clare EB
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Diabetes Screening and Prevention in a High-Risk, Medically Isolated Border Community
Frontiers in Public Health, 2017 IntroductionA project in a Texas border community setting, Prevention Organized against Diabetes and Dialysis with Education and Resources (POD2ER), offered diabetes prevention information, screening, and medical referrals.
Ann V. Millard +7 more
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