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Examining health literacy disparities in the United States: a third look at the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)

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, Maxine S. Thompson, Julie McKinney, Alison Beauchamp   +3 more
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Intersectional Discrimination Index: Initial stages of cross-cultural adaptation to Brazilian Portuguese

Revista Brasileira de Epidemiologia, 2022
Objective: To perform the cross-cultural adaptation of Intersectional Discrimination Index (InDI) into Brazilian Portuguese. InDI assesses the health impacts of intersectional experiences with anticipated (InDI-A), day-to-day (InDI-D), and major (InDI-M)
Natália Peixoto Pereira, João Luiz Bastos, Carolina Saraiva de Macedo Lisboa   +2 more
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The role of data in health care disparities in medicaid managed care [PDF]

, 2012
Background: The Affordable Care Act includes provisions to standardize the collection of data on health care quality that can be used to measure disparities.
Guthrie, Bruce, Moskowitz, David, Bindman, Andrew B.   +2 more
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An analysis of health inequalities depending on educational level using nationally representative survey data in Japan, 2019

BMC Public Health, 2021
Background In recent years, socioeconomic differences in health statuses and behaviors have not been investigated from the nationally representative survey data in Japan.
Tasuku Okui
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Socioeconomic Disparities and Self-reported Substance Abuse-related Problems [PDF]

Addiction and Health, 2018
Background: It is not well understood whether the self-reported experience of substance abuse-related problems differs by socioeconomic status.Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis using the 2013 National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) on ...
Kesha Baptiste-Roberts, Mian Hossain
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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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Social class inequalities in tooth-brushing time: The role of material, behavioral, psychosocial, and workplace environmental factors among the South Korean population

Makara Journal of Health Research, 2019
Background: Inequality in health should be prevented. The aims of this study were to assess inequalities prevalent in tooth-brushing after lunch (TAL) and in tooth-brushing before sleep (TBS) among Koreans using the NMSC indicator and to assess the role ...
Herry Novrinda, Dong-Hun Han, Peter Andreas   +2 more
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Poor access to health services for depression treatment in Brazil

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2023
OBJECTIVE To analyze the factors associated with poor access to health services for the depression treatment in Brazil. METHODS This study used data from the Brazilian National Survey of Health, conducted in the years 2019 and 2020.
Héllyda de Souza Bezerra, Isabelle Ribeiro Barbosa   +1 more
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Desigualdades regionales en la mortalidad por diabetes mellitus y en el acceso a la salud en Argentina

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2017
Resumen: El objetivo del estudio fue estimar la carga de mortalidad por grandes grupos de causas, con foco en la diabetes mellitus, así como sus diferenciales, según la presencia o ausencia de cobertura por algún sistema de salud, para Argentina y sus ...
María Jimena Marro, Andrey Moreira Cardoso, Iuri da Costa Leite   +2 more
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Sexual and/or gender minority mental health disparities in adolescence: effects of adverse peer and family experiences

International Journal of Adolescence and Youth
Research exploring developmental explanations for sexual and/or gender minority (i.e. SGM) mental health disparities often rely on adults’ retrospectively reported childhood adversity, leaving gaps in understanding how childhood adversity affects SGM ...
Emma Galarneau, Tina Malti
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