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Socioeconomic Status and Health Disparity in the United States
Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 2007Abstract 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 ...
Sahasporn Paeratakul +3 more
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Health Insurance Status and Disparities in Kidney Cancer Care
Urology Practice, 2016Through 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)
Aaron A. Laviana +4 more
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Disparities in oral health by immigration status in the United States
The Journal of the American Dental Association, 2018Few investigators have explored differences in oral health status between immigrants and natives. To address this gap, the authors used nationally representative data to characterize disparities in oral health among noncitizens, naturalized citizens, and native adults.The 2013 to 2014 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a nationally ...
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, 2018
During the Jim Crow era of 1877 to 1954, the federal government sponsored and supported the racially separate and unequal distribution of resources, including, but not limited to, education, housing, employment, and healthcare.
Ruqaiijah Yearby
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During the Jim Crow era of 1877 to 1954, the federal government sponsored and supported the racially separate and unequal distribution of resources, including, but not limited to, education, housing, employment, and healthcare.
Ruqaiijah Yearby
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Vitamin D Status Is a Biological Determinant of Health Disparities
Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 2013In 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 Promotion International, 2018
While socioeconomic disparities are among the most fundamental causes of health disparities, socioeconomic status (SES) does not impact health directly. One of the potential mediating factors that link SES and health is health literacy (HL). Yet although
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While socioeconomic disparities are among the most fundamental causes of health disparities, socioeconomic status (SES) does not impact health directly. One of the potential mediating factors that link SES and health is health literacy (HL). Yet although
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Planning minority health programs to eliminate health status disparity
Evaluation and Program Planning, 1991The 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 ...
Sharon P. Simson, Laura B. Wilson
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Measurement of socioeconomic status in health disparities research.
Journal of the National Medical Association, 2007Socioeconomic status (SES) is frequently implicated as a contributor to the disparate health observed among racial/ ethnic minorities, women and elderly populations. Findings from studies that examine the role of SES and health disparities, however, have provided inconsistent results.
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Economic Status Over the Life Course and Racial Disparities in Health
The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 2005Objectives. Racial and socioeconomic disparities in health have become a prominent feature of American society, though our understanding of the processes leading to such persistent disparities is still relatively limited. In this study, we focus on the impact of social and economic advantages and disadvantages over the life course on health disparities
Joan R. Kahn, Elena M. Fazio
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Migrants in Latin America: Disparities in Health Status and in Access to Healthcare
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020The large magnitude and sudden nature of recent migration flows in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) impose challenges to receiving countries’ health systems, which have to provide care to a larger population. These challenges are magnified by the fact that recent waves of migrants are particularly vulnerable to health risks in LAC and may not have
Martha Denisse Pierola +1 more
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