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The Impact of Health Literacy and Socioeconomic Status on Asthma Disparities [PDF]

Journal of Asthma, 2012
Racial/ethnic disparities have been well documented in asthma. While socioeconomic status (SES) has been repeatedly implicated as a root cause, the role of limited health literacy has not been extensively studied. The purpose of this study was to examine the independent contributions of SES and health literacy in explaining asthma disparities.A cohort ...
Laura M, Curtis, Michael S, Wolf, Kevin B, Weiss, Leslie C, Grammer   +3 more
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Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in health literacy in Iran: A concentration index approach

International Journal of Preventive Medicine, 2019
Background: Health literacy is a major factor for health promotion and well-being. In spite of several researches on health literacy, information on the subject of the status of health literacy in Asian countries such as Iran is inadequate.
Amir Almasi-Hashiani, Mahmoud Abbasi, Mohammad Tavakol, Vali Baigi, Mehri Mohammadi, Javad Nazari, Esmaeil Khedmati Morasae, Yahya Shadi, Majid Taheri   +8 more
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The vexing relationship between socioeconomic status and health

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2020
In a recent issue of this Journal, Politzer, Shmueli, and Avni estimate the economic costs of health disparities due to socioeconomic status (SES) in Israel (Politzer et al., Isr J Health Policy Res 8: 46, 2019).
J. Travis Donahoe, Thomas G. McGuire
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Understanding the Changing Landscape of Health Disparities in Chronic Liver Diseases and Liver Cancer

Gastro Hep Advances, 2023
Liver disease and liver cancer disparities in the United States are reflective of complex multiple determinants of health. This review describes the disproportionate burden of liver disease and liver cancer among racial, ethnic, sexual, and gender ...
Olga M. Herren, Arielle S. Gillman, Vanessa J. Marshall, Rina Das   +3 more
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Baquet, Claudia R, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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Elderly persons who live alone in Brazil and their lifestyle

Revista Brasileira de Geriatria e Gerontologia, 2018
Objective: to assess the prevalence of elderly persons living alone in Brazil, based on covariates of health status, behavior and socio-demographic characteristics. Method: data from 11,967 individuals (aged 60 or over) were obtained from the National
Etienne Larissa Duim Negrini, Carla Ferreira do Nascimento, Alexandre da Silva, José Leopoldo Ferreira Antunes   +3 more
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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, Hojjat Zeraati, Reza Majdzadeh, Mohammad Shariati, Hassan Hashemi, Akbar Fotouhi   +5 more
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Health disparities in past influenza pandemics: A scoping review of the literature

SSM: Population Health, 2023
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated existing health disparities. To provide a historical perspective on health disparities for pandemic acute respiratory viruses, we conducted a scoping review of the public health literature of health ...
Angela D'Adamo, Alina Schnake-Mahl, Pricila H. Mullachery, Mariana Lazo, Ana V. Diez Roux, Usama Bilal   +5 more
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Black-white mental status trajectories: What ages do differences emerge?

SSM: Population Health, 2018
Objectives: Studies of older U.S. adults have consistently found that African Americans perform worse on cognitive measures than whites, but there are inconsistencies as to whether these findings hold over time.
DeAnnah R. Byrd, Gilbert C. Gee, Wassim Tarraf   +2 more
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Adjusting for health status in non-linear models of health care disparities [PDF]

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2008
This article compared conceptual and empirical strengths of alternative methods for estimating racial disparities using non-linear models of health care access. Three methods were presented (propensity score, rank and replace, and a combined method) that adjust for health status while allowing SES variables to mediate the relationship between race and ...
Benjamin L, Cook, Thomas G, McGuire, Ellen, Meara, Alan M, Zaslavsky   +3 more
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