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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
doaj   +1 more source

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
doaj  

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
doaj   +1 more source

Health Disparities: A Perspective on Internal Migration and Health Behavior in Sudan

Annals of Global Health, 2020
Background: Natural hazards, poor socio-economic conditions, low literacy levels, and long-standing conflicts affect traditional gold miners in Sudan and contribute to multiple health vulnerabilities.
Mahmoud Ali Fadlallah, Indrajit Pal, Joyee S. Chatterjee   +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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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

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
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Predicting Chronicity in Children and Adolescents With Newly Diagnosed Immune Thrombocytopenia at the Timepoint of Diagnosis Using Machine Learning‐Based Approaches

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser, Alice Bizeul, Meera Chitlur, Hugo Donato, Jelena Roganovic, Julia E. Vogt, Thomas Kühne   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disparities in child health in the Arab region during the 1990s

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2008
Background While Arab countries showed an impressive decline in child mortality rates during the past few decades, gaps in mortality by gender and socioeconomic status persisted.
Meyerson-Knox Sonya, Dawns Jesse, Khawaja Marwan, Yamout Rouham   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

By dawn or dusk—how circadian timing rewrites bacterial infection outcomes

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
The circadian clock shapes immune function, yet its influence on infection outcomes is only beginning to be understood. This review highlights how circadian timing alters host responses to the bacterial pathogens Salmonella enterica, Listeria monocytogenes, and Streptococcus pneumoniae revealing that the effectiveness of immune defense depends not only
Devons Mo, Catherine S. Palmer, Jacqueline M. Kimmey   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source