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Economic Inequality in Eye Care Utilization and its Determinants: A Blinder–Oaxaca Decomposition [PDF]
International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 2014 Background The current study aimed to determine eye care utilization, to assess the role of economic inequality in the utilization of eye care services, and to identify its determinants in Shahroud, North of Iran.
Mohammad Hassan Emamian +5 more
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BMC Public Health, 2016 Background In the United States, disparities in health literacy parallel disparities in health outcomes. Our research contributes to how diverse indicators of social inequalities (i.e., objective social class, relational social class, and social ...
R. V. Rikard +3 more
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Health Literacy and Income Mediate Racial/Ethnic Asthma Disparities
Health Literacy Research and Practice, 2019 Background: Health literacy and socioeconomic status (SES) are associated with both race/ethnicity and asthma outcomes. The extent to which health literacy and SES mediate racial/ethnic asthma disparities is less clear. Objective: To determine if health
Ryan G. Seibert +5 more
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Graph Attention Networks Unveil Determinants of Intra- and Inter-city Health Disparity [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 Understanding the determinants underlying variations in urban health status is important for informing urban design and planning, as well as public health policies. Multiple heterogeneous urban features could modulate the prevalence of diseases across different neighborhoods in cities and across different cities.
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities and Culturally Competent Health Care Among Youth and Young Men
American Journal of Men's Health, 2008 Racial/ethnic disparities in health and health care are receiving increasing national attention from the fields of public health and medicine. Efforts to reduce disparities should adopt a life-span approach and recognize the role of gender.
Dzung X. Vo MD, M. Jane Park MPH
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Health status in a transitional society: urban-rural disparities from a dynamic perspective in China
Population Health Metrics, 2018 Background The phenomenon of urban-rural segmentation has emerged and is remarkable, and the health disparities between rural and urban China should be stressed.
Junfeng Jiang, Peigang Wang
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Health disparities between native and foreign-born older population in India: Does migration status matter in later life? [PDF]
BMC Public HealthAhamad V, Bhagat RB.
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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 ...
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Asian/Pacific Island Nursing Journal, 2017 This purpose of this study is to identify factors associated with older Korean adults’ disability, depressive symptoms, and perceived poor health, with a focus on their socioeconomic status and family support.
Insook Lee, Young Ko
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JMIR Research Protocols, 2021 BackgroundGuided by intersectionality frameworks, researchers have documented health disparities at the intersection of multiple axes of social status and position, particularly race and ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation ...
Ayden I Scheim +3 more
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