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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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Vitamin D Status, Gender Differences, and Cardiometabolic Health Disparities [PDF]

Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2017
<b><i>Background:</i></b> Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized epidemic found in India and also worldwide. Despite the high prevalence of diabetes among Indians, there is a paucity of data showing the relationship between vitamin D status and cardiometabolic disparities.
Dharambir K, Sanghera, Bishwa R, Sapkota, Christopher E, Aston, Piers R, Blackett   +3 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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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, Michael R. Winter, Howard J. Cabral, Michael S. Wolf, Laura M. Curtis, Michael K. Paasche-Orlow   +5 more
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Educational inequalities in heart failure mortality and the cycles of the internal armed conflict in Colombia: An observational panel study of ecological data, 1999–2017

Heliyon, 2023
Heart failure (HF) is a significant clinical problem and an important public health issue due to the morbidity and mortality that it causes, especially in a population that is aging and affected by social stressors such as armed conflict.
Pablo Chaparro-Narváez, Ivonne Andrea Ordóñez-Monak, Natalia Trujillo, Carlos Andres Castañeda-Orjuela, Ivan Arroyave   +4 more
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BCHS 2524- Overview of Minority Health and Health Disparities in the US [PDF]

, 2006
Understanding health disparities involves a critical analysis of historical, political, economic, social, cultural, and environmental conditions that have produced an inequitable health status for racial and ethnic minorities in the United States.
Gilbert, Keon L, Thomas, Stephen B
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Intergenerational Health Disparities: Socioeconomic Status, Women's Health Conditions, and Child Behavior Problems [PDF]

Public Health Reports®, 2005
Objective.Relatively little is known about the intergenerational mechanisms that lead to social disparities in child health. We examined whether the association between low socioeconomic status (SES) and child behavior problems is mediated by maternal health conditions and behavior.Methods.Prospective cohort data (1979–1998) on 2,677 children and their
Robert S, Kahn, Kathryn, Wilson, Paul H, Wise   +2 more
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Linguistic disparities in health care access and health status among older adults [PDF]

Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2006
English proficiency may be important in explaining disparities in health and health care access among older adults.Population-based representative sample (N=18,659) of adults age 55 and older from the 2001 California Health Interview Survey.We examined whether health care access and health status vary among older adults who have limited English ...
Ninez A, Ponce, Ron D, Hays, William E, Cunningham   +2 more
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Influence of socioeconomic status and family support on disability, depressive symptoms, and perceived poor health in older Korean adults

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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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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