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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
doaj  

Health Disparities in COVID-19: Addressing the Role of Social Determinants of Health in Immune System Dysfunction to Turn the Tide

Frontiers in Public Health, 2020
It is evident that health disparities exist during the COVID-19 pandemic, a pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. Underlying reasons for COVID-19 health disparities are multi-factorial.
Yvonne Baumer, Nicole Farmer, Thomas A. Premeaux, Gwenyth R. Wallen, Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley, Tiffany M. Powell-Wiley   +5 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
doaj   +1 more source

Decoding Urban-health Nexus: Interpretable Machine Learning Illuminates Cancer Prevalence based on Intertwined City Features [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
This study investigates the interplay among social demographics, built environment characteristics, and environmental hazard exposure features in determining community level cancer prevalence. Utilizing data from five Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States: Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, and New York, the study implemented an ...
arxiv  

Race and Discretion in American Medicine [PDF]

, 2001
The author’s focus in this article is on racial disparities in medical care provision--that is, on differences in the services that clinically similar patients receive when they present to the health care system.
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg
core   +1 more source

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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Circulating tumor cells in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors – a biomarker analysis of the ALICE and ICON trials

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
In this explorative biomarker analysis, we assessed serial sampling of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) with CellSearch in two randomized trials testing immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) in metastatic breast cancer. Our data demonstrate a prognostic potential of CTCs, most apparent 4 weeks into ICI therapy.
Nikolai Kragøe Andresen, Andreas Hagen Røssevold, Elin Borgen, Cecilie Bendigtsen Schirmer, Bjørnar Gilje, Øystein Garred, Jon Lømo, Marius Stensland, Oddmund Nordgård, Ragnhild Sørum Falk, Randi R. Mathiesen, Hege G. Russnes, Jon Amund Kyte, Bjørn Naume   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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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A comparative study of circulating tumor cell isolation and enumeration technologies in lung cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Lung cancer cells were spiked into donor blood to evaluate the recovery rates of the following circulating tumor cell (CTC) enrichment technologies: CellMag™, EasySep™, RosetteSep™, Parsortix® PR1, and Parsortix® Prototype systems. Each method's advantages and disadvantages are described.
Volga M Saini, Ezgi Oner, Mark P. Ward, Sinead Hurley, Brian David Henderson, Faye Lewis, Stephen P. Finn, Gerard J. Fitzmaurice, John J. O'Leary, Sharon O'Toole, Lorraine O'Driscoll, Kathy Gately   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source