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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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Adjusting for health status in non-linear models of health care disparities [PDF]

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2008
This article compared conceptual and empirical strengths of alternative methods for estimating racial disparities using non-linear models of health care access. Three methods were presented (propensity score, rank and replace, and a combined method) that adjust for health status while allowing SES variables to mediate the relationship between race and ...
Benjamin L, Cook, Thomas G, McGuire, Ellen, Meara, Alan M, Zaslavsky   +3 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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Evolution of access to prenatal care in Pernambuco: maternal schooling as a marker of health inequities [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil
Objectives: to analyze the evolution and inequalities in prenatal care consultations in Pernambuco, according to maternal education level. Methods: this is an ecological study of pregnant women who attended seven or more prenatal consultations and ...
Daniella Oliveira Albuquerque Lins, Maria Tatiane Alves da Silva, Lívia Teixeira de Souza Maia   +2 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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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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Factors associated with food insecurity among pregnant women assisted by Universal Health Care in Lavras - Minas Gerais State [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2022
Objectives: to investigate sociodemographic and economic factors associated with food insecurity among pregnant women assisted by the universal healthcare network of Lavras, Minas Gerais.
Renata Oliveira Messina Costa, Ana Poblacion, Carolina Lourenço Giudice, Lahis Cristina Morais de Moura, Adriany Aparecida Roquini Lima, Daniela Braga Lima, Maysa Helena de Aguiar Toloni, Lílian Gonçalves Teixeira   +7 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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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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