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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
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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
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Feasibility and Tolerability of Performing Portable MRI for Neurological Disorders in an Outpatient Neurology Clinic: A Prospective Cohort

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Accessing brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be challenging, especially for underserved patients, which may lead to disparities in neurological diagnosis. Method This mixed‐methods study enrolled adults with one of four neurological disorders: mild cognitive impairment or dementia of the Alzheimer type, multiple sclerosis ...
Maya L. Mastick, Nomin Enkhtsetseg, Joseph Sadok, Matheus Mochetti, Annabel Sorby Adams, Jennifer Guo, Cristina Trapaga Hacker, Isabella Gomez Hjerthen, Seungwon Lee, Siddharth Satish, Andrew S. Ham, Justin Hill, Denis Balaban, Kevin Kyle, Rebecca L. Gillani, Marcelo Matiello, Aleksandar Videnovic, Eric C. Klawiter, W. Taylor Kimberly, Farrah J. Mateen   +19 more
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Barriers to contraceptive access and use among youths (15–24 Years) living in informal urban settlements of Kigali, Rwanda: a qualitative study

Discover Public Health
Background Contraceptive use among youths below 19 years in Rwanda is still very low, as low as 3.7%, yet their level of sexual activity is high. By 2020, 42% and 31% of women and men respectively had initiated sex before the age of 20 years.
Emmanuel Okiror Okello, Alexandre Edgard Murinzi, Colyse Nduwimana, Rashidah Nambaziira   +3 more
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Sex Representation in US Stroke Clinical Trials: A Decade of Trends and Challenges

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Stroke remains a major cause of disability and mortality in the US, with significant sex‐based disparities, and females remain underrepresented in stroke clinical trials. We aimed to examine sex representation in US‐based stroke clinical trials, identify trial characteristics associated with higher female enrollment (≥ 50%), and ...
Chaitali Dagli, Mudasir Andrabi, Tova Cohen, Pranali G. Patel, Tapasya Katta, Chen Lin   +5 more
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“An eye-opener:” a qualitative study of a liberal arts approach to medical education

BMC Medical Education
Background Medical educators have underscored the need for medical students to study the larger sociocultural and economic forces that influence health rather than simply basic and clinical sciences; however, previous studies have not evaluated the ...
Abebe Bekele, Denis Regnier, Claire O. Swedberg, Eden Abate Lemu, Christelle Uwantege Giraneza, Elizabeth H. Bradley   +5 more
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Health Equity in Medicine

HCA Healthcare Journal of Medicine, 2022
Description Healthcare disparities exist when, due to racial, ethnic, or gender identity differences linked to social, economic or environmental factors, certain populations lack equitable access to quality healthcare and insurance coverage. Such disparities across history carry profound future implications that we have only begun to contemplate as a ...
Tracy, MacIntosh, Barbara L, Gracious, Jeremy R, Brooks, Graig, Donini   +3 more
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Predictive Ability of Plasma p‐tau217 for β‐Amyloid Status: A Prospective Multicenter Study

Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective Plasma tau phosphorylated at threonine 217 (p‐tau217) measured with fully automated platforms has shown high accuracy for Alzheimer's disease (AD) diagnosis, but real‐world multicenter data remain limited. We aimed to validate the diagnostic performance of p‐tau217 for identifying AD pathology in a real‐world multicenter cohort ...
Miquel Massons, Nuria Guillen, Jordi Sarto, Neus Falgàs, Sergi Borrego‐Écija, Diana Esteller‐Gauxax, Magda Castellví, Adrià Tort‐Merino, Agnès Pérez‐Millan, Anna Antonell, Josep M. Augè Fradera, Gerard Piñol, Iolanda Riba, Anna Carnes‐Vendrell, Marta Cullell, Maria Teresa Osuna, Lorena Bajo, Teresa Romero, Eva Bonjoch, Joan Bello, Susana Fernández, Marta Balagué, Isabel Gómez‐Ruiz, Anuncia Boltes, Claustre Pont, Raquel Cuevas, Sara Carrillo, Laura Iglesias, Teresa Maria Casadevall Codina, Lorena Grau Guinea, Fernando Jose Espada, Raquel Sánchez‐Valle, Mircea Balasa, Albert Lladó   +33 more
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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity [PDF]

, 2017
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in ...

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Focus on vulnerable populations and promoting equity in health service utilization ––an analysis of visitor characteristics and service utilization of the Chinese community health service [PDF]

, 2014
Background Community health service in China is designed to provide a convenient and affordable primary health service for the city residents, and to promote health equity.
A Mills, A Williams, AJ Scott, B Mash, C Yang, Chen Yang, E Gowin, Fujian Song, HH Dib, Huajie Yang, I Okkes, J De Maeseneer, J Macinko, J Mo, J Qin, J Villani, J Xu, JH Flaskerud, JJ Hall, Jun Xie, KD Bertakis, KW Miller, Ling Liu, M Cui, M Marmot, PR China Ministry of Health, PR China Ministry of Health, R Bernabei, R Parslow, S Dahrouge, S Dunlop, S Xu, SA Margolis, Shiyi Cao, T Shen, The Statistic Center of PR China Ministry of Health, The Statistic Center of PR China Ministry of Health, TP Nteta, X Duan, X Li, X Ren, Xiaoxin Dong, Xiaoxu Yin, Xing Xu, Y Li, Y Liu, Y Liu, Y Zhou, Yanhong Gong, Yi Sun, Yunxia Wang, Z Lu, Zuxun Lu   +52 more
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