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Centering Health Equity in Telemedicine

Annals of Family Medicine, 2022
In the wake of the racial injustices laid bare in 2020, on top of centuries of systemic racism, it is clear we need actionable strategies to fundamentally restructure health care systems to achieve racial/ethnic health equity.
C. Lyles, A. Sharma, Jessica D Fields, Yaphet Getachew, U. Sarkar, Laurie C. Zephyrin   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health systems performance in sub-Saharan Africa: Governance, outcome and equity [PDF]

, 2011
Copyright @ 2011 Olafsdottir et al.BACKGROUND: The literature on health systems focuses largely on the performance of healthcare systems operationalised around indicators such as hospital beds, maternity care and immunisation coverage.
Allotey, P, Olafsdottir, AE, Pokhrel, S, Reidpath, DD   +3 more
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Understanding the medical determinants and health service needs of older people who experience loneliness in Sydney, Australia

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: In Australia there has been a sharp increase in the proportion of older people who live alone. Living alone increases the risk of being socially isolated or experiencing loneliness.
Lou-Anne Blunden, Jane Lloyd, Margo Barr, Heidi Welberry, Elizabeth Comino, Ben Roxas-Harris, Tony Jackson, Debra Donnelly, Elizabeth Harris, Mark Harris   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Socioeconomic inequality in mental well-being associated with COVID-19 containment measures in a low-incidence Asian globalized city

Scientific Reports, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic exposes and amplifies pre-existing inequalities even in places with relatively well-controlled outbreaks such as Hong Kong. This study aimed to explore whether the socioeconomically disadvantaged fare worse via various types of ...
Roger Yat-Nork Chung, Gary Ka-Ki Chung, Siu-Ming Chan, Yat-Hang Chan, Hung Wong, Eng Kiong Yeoh, Jessica Allen, Jean Woo, Michael Marmot   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Multi-Stage Stochastic Programming Approach to Epidemic Resource Allocation with Equity Considerations [PDF]

arXiv, 2021
Existing compartmental models in epidemiology are limited in terms of optimizing the resource allocation to control an epidemic outbreak under disease growth uncertainty. In this study, we address this core limitation by presenting a multi-stage stochastic programming compartmental model, which integrates the uncertain disease progression and resource ...
arxiv  

Achieving Greater Health Equity: An Opportunity for Anesthesiology

Anesthesia and Analgesia, 2022
Anesthesiology and anesthesiologists have a tremendous opportunity and responsibility to eliminate health disparities and to achieve health equity. We thus examine health disparity and health equity through the lens of anesthesiology and the perspective ...
Mofya S. Diallo, Jonathan M. Tan, E. Heitmiller, T. Vetter   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House”: Ten Critical Lessons for Black and Other Health Equity Researchers of Color

Health Education & Behavior, 2021
Audre Lorde’s provocative admonishment, “The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house,” is a fitting caution for Black and other scholars of color who seek to use traditional social and behavioral sciences research as a tool to achieve ...
Lisa Bowleg
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Defining Health Equity

HealthcarePapers, 2014
Most people, if asked, would say that they are in favour of health equity. The term connotes fairness, and justice, which many Canadians would see as consistent with our values. And yet, when we push further to define the actions necessary to drive improved health equity, it is apparent that substantive differences regarding how health equity is ...
Rachel, Solomon, Camille, Orridge
openaire   +4 more sources

Circulating tumor DNA monitoring and blood tumor mutational burden in patients with metastatic solid tumors treated with atezolizumab

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In patients treated with atezolizumab as a part of the MyPathway (NCT02091141) trial, pre‐treatment ctDNA tumor fraction at high levels was associated with poor outcomes (radiographic response, progression‐free survival, and overall survival) but better sensitivity for blood tumor mutational burden (bTMB).
Charles Swanton, Russell W. Madison, Candice Francheska B. Tambaoan, Funda Meric‐Bernstam, Christopher J. Sweeney, Razelle Kurzrock, Howard A. Burris III, David R. Spigel, Hanna Tukachinsky, Jason Hughes, Julia Malato, Bongin Yoo, Tania Szado, Cheryl Schwab, Lincoln W. Pasquina, Amaya Gasco, Katja Schulze, Claire F. Friedman   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mentorship effect on healthcare providers' adherence to postpartum haemorrhage guidelines and maternal outcomes in Rwanda. A quasi-experimental study.

NSC Nursing
Background: Postpartum hemorrhage (PPH) is a leading cause of maternal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Effective management of PPH heavily relies on adherence to clinical guidelines.
Benjamin David Habikigeni , Arlette Bizimana, Maxwell Mhlanga, Tsion Yohannes   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source