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Planning minority health programs to eliminate health status disparity

Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991
The purpose of this research is to determine program characteristics that are essential to address the problem of health status disparity between minority and nonminority populations. The respondent group consisted of a sample of 50 minority health organizations currently listed as participants in the Minority Health Resource Network in the United ...
Laura B. Wilson, Sharon P. Simson
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Childhood maltreatment, subjective social status, and health disparities in bereavement

Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2022
Spousal bereavement can lead to adverse health outcomes; however, not all widow(er)s experience the same degree of health problems. Thus, it is important to understand the contribution of disparities (e.g., childhood maltreatment and subjective social status) that may underlie adverse health outcomes that arise following bereavement.We collected data ...
Michelle A, Chen, Ryan L, Brown, Jonathan Y, Chen, Marcel A, de Dios, Charles E, Green, Cobi J, Heijnen, Christopher P, Fagundes   +6 more
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Health Insurance Status and Disparities in Kidney Cancer Care

Urology Practice, 2016
Through PPACA (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) many adults have or will gain health insurance via Medicaid expansion. To understand how this policy change may potentially impact patients with kidney cancer we examined the relationship between insurance status and cancer related outcomes.Using SEER (Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results)
Hung-Jui, Tan, Ryan J, Chuang, Joseph D, Shirk, Aaron A, Laviana, Jim C, Hu   +4 more
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Health disparities in breast cancer: biology meets socioeconomic status

Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2010
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide, accounting for just over 1 million new cases annually. Population-based statistics show that globally, when compared to whites, women of African ancestry (AA) tend to have more aggressive breast cancers that present more frequently as estrogen receptor negative (ERneg) tumors.
Barbara K, Dunn, Tanya, Agurs-Collins, Doris, Browne, Ronald, Lubet, Karen A, Johnson   +4 more
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Disparities in Health Status and Health-Service Utilization Among Hispanic Ethnic Subgroups

Social Work in Public Health, 2007
Using nationally representative National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data from 1999 through 2002, this study examines the health services access and utilization patterns of U.S. Hispanic adolescents under age 18 years classified as: Cubans, Puerto Ricans and Dominicans, Mexicans or Mexican Americans, Central and South Americans, and mixed Hispanic ...
Ravi K, Sharma, Kathleen A, McGinnis, Patricia I, Documèt   +2 more
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Health Status Disparities among Public and Private Emergency Department Patients

Academic Emergency Medicine, 1999
Abstract. Objective: To explore whether patients in a public ED had poorer health than patients in a private ED, the authors compared the physical and mental health statuses of patients seeking emergency care. Methods: A cross‐sectional observational study of all adult patients, regardless of acuity, seen during two 24‐hour periods in spring 1997 in ...
H J, Alter, R, Braun, J L, Zazzali
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Vitamin D Status Is a Biological Determinant of Health Disparities

Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2013
In human beings, dark skin requires more exposure to ultraviolet light to synthesize the same amount of vitamin D as lighter skin. It is has been repeatedly shown that at the latitude of the United States there are vitamin D disparities related to skin color.
Tom, Weishaar, Joyce Marcley, Vergili
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Health disparities in Milwaukee by socioeconomic status.

WMJ : official publication of the State Medical Society of Wisconsin, 2008
In 2006, the city of Milwaukee ranked worse than any Wisconsin county for health outcomes and worse than all but 1 county for health determinants.To further examine disparities in health, Milwaukee city ZIP codes were stratified into 3 groups (lower, middle, and upper) by socioeconomic status (SES). Health determinants (15 measures) and health outcomes
Peter M, Vila, Geoffrey R, Swain, Dennis J, Baumgardner, Sarah E, Halsmer, Patrick L, Remington, Ron A, Cisler   +5 more
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Language and Immigrant Status Effects on Disparities in Hispanic Children’s Health Status and Access to Health Care

Maternal and Child Health Journal, 2012
The objective of this study is to estimate Hispanic/non-Hispanic (nH)-white health disparities and assess the extent to which disparities can be explained by immigrant status and household primary language. The 2007 National Survey of Children's Health was funded by the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, and conducted by Centers for Disease Control and ...
Rosa M, Avila, Matthew D, Bramlett
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Socioeconomic Status and Health Disparity in the United States

Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2007
Abstract Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with high rates of many chronic diseases. This study was a cluster analysis of data from 9,830 adults in the 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by the Individuals (1994-96 CSFII) in order to characterize more fully the biologic and social factors that might be associated with chronic ...
Betty M. Kennedy, Sahasporn Paeratakul, Donna H. Ryan, George A. Bray   +3 more
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