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Culture, Health and Sexuality, 2020 Few studies have examined the intersection of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status on the experience of minority stressors among sexual minority adults.
Sylvia Shangani +4 more
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Vitamin D Status, Gender Differences, and Cardiometabolic Health Disparities [PDF]
Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism, 2017 <b><i>Background:</i></b> Vitamin D deficiency is an unrecognized epidemic found in India and also worldwide. Despite the high prevalence of diabetes among Indians, there is a paucity of data showing the relationship between vitamin D status and cardiometabolic disparities.
Piers R. Blackett +3 more
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JMIR Research Protocols, 2021 BackgroundGuided by intersectionality frameworks, researchers have documented health disparities at the intersection of multiple axes of social status and position, particularly race and ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation ...
Ayden I Scheim +3 more
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Disparities in health care utilization by smoking status in Canada
International Journal of Public Health, 2013 To examine the association between smoking status and the utilization of health care services in Canada.The study uses data from the 2007 Canadian Community Health Survey, which contains information on the number of visits to general practitioner (GP), specialists (SP) and the number of nights spent in a hospital.
Mesbah Fathy Sharaf +2 more
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Time perspective and socioeconomic status: A link to socioeconomic disparities in health? [PDF]
Social Science & Medicine, 2009 Time perspective is a measure of the degree to which one's thinking is motivated by considerations of the future, present, or past. Time perspective has been proposed as a potential mediator of socioeconomic disparities in health because it has been associated with health behaviors and is presumed to vary with socioeconomic status.
Lori C. Guthrie +2 more
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Health Disparities between the Rural and Urban Elderly in China: A Cross-Sectional Study
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021 Background: China is becoming an aging society, and the proportion of the population aged 60 years and above is increasing. There is a dualistic urban–rural economic structure between urban and rural areas in China, but there are few comparative health ...
Jian Zhang, Dan Li, Jianmin Gao
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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 InfantilObjectives: 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 +2 more
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JAMA Network Open, 2020 Key Points Question What sociodemographic and underlying health conditions are associated with COVID-19 outcomes and do they differ by race/ethnicity? Findings In this cohort study of 5698 patients tested for or diagnosed with COVID-19, high population ...
T. Gu +10 more
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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 +3 more
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Unequally distributed psychological assets: are there social disparities in optimism, life satisfaction, and positive affect? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Socioeconomic status is associated with health disparities, but underlying psychosocial mechanisms have not been fully identified. Dispositional optimism may be a psychosocial process linking socioeconomic status with health.
Julia K Boehm +4 more
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