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Advancing Intersectional Discrimination Measures for Health Disparities Research: Protocol for a Bilingual Mixed Methods Measurement Study

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, Greta R Bauer, João L Bastos, Tonia Poteat   +3 more
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Uncovering Inequities: The Role of Social Determinants of Health in Hospitalized Adolescents and Young Adults With Heavy Menstrual Bleeding

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Heavy menstrual bleeding (HMB) is a common condition among adolescents and young adults (AYAs) and is the leading cause of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) in this population. Growing evidence suggests that social determinants of health (SDOH) influence menstrual bleeding patterns, access to care, and treatment. However, no studies have
Maria Carter‐Febres, Cristina Tarango, Ashley Childress, Chunyan Liu, Evan Thomas, Jennifer Pomales, Eric S. Mullins   +6 more
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Applying the NIMHD research framework to assess research capacity: lessons and adaptations for use

Frontiers in Public Health
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Framework illustrates that health and health disparities are shaped by a complex interplay of factors that operate across multiple domains and levels of influence.
Shelby L. Langer, Aliria M. Rascón, Heather M. Ross, Julia F. Hammett, Alyssa G. Robillard, Angel B. Algarin, Felipe Gonzalez Castro, Fiorella L. Carlos Chavez, Joseph Daniels, Kelly C. Davis, Rachel Gur-Arie, Rodney P. Joseph, Sunny W. Kim, Rebecca E. Lee, Derek R. Manis, Chung Jung Mun, Eyitayo O. Owolabi, Megan E. Petrov, Shawn D. Youngstedt, Gabriel Q. Shaibi   +19 more
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Educational inequality in Rio de Janeiro and its impact on multimorbidity: evidence from the Pró-Saúde study. A cross-sectional analysis

São Paulo Medical Journal, 2018
BACKGROUND: Information about multimorbidity is scarce in developing countries. This study aimed to estimate the association of educational attainment with occurrences of multimorbidity in a population of public employees on university campuses in Rio ...
Adelson Guaraci Jantsch, Ronaldo Fernandes Santos Alves, Eduardo Faerstein   +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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Engineering peptides into antibodies—opportunities and strategies for therapeutic innovation

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Peptides and antibodies occupy complementary therapeutic niches. Peptides recognize difficult targets in a compact format, while antibodies add specificity, long half‐life, and effector functions. This review examines strategies that merge both modalities—peptide grafting into loops, terminal and Fc fusions, and bioconjugation—highlighting how ...
Jinling Wang, Ruslana Romaniuk, Hristo L. Svilenov   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Not Separate but Still Unequal: Disparities, Invisibility and Bias in Access and Quality of Health Care in Michigan [PDF]

, 2004
Current research points to race and ethnicity as predictive of disparities in access and quality of health care. A 2002 Institute of Medicine Study found that African-American patients tend not to receive the same type of care as White patients, even ...
Kammeraad, Kelly
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Envelhecimento ativo: prevalência e diferenças de gênero e idade em estudo de base populacional

Cadernos de Saúde Pública, 2018
O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar as prevalências e as diferenças de gênero e idade em indicadores de envelhecimento ativo entre idosos participantes do Inquérito de Saúde do Município de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil, 2014-2015.
Neuciani Ferreira da Silva Sousa, Margareth Guimarães Lima, Chester Luiz Galvão Cesar, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros   +3 more
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Structural and biochemical analysis of a B12 superbinder

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
BtuG proteins are vitamin B12 scavengers in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a dominant human gut bacterium. We present crystal structures of three BtuG homologs bound to cobalamin and its precursor cobinamide, revealing picomolar binding affinities, among the highest known for any natural protein.
Jose M. Martinez Felices, Jacob J. Whittaker, Dirk J. Slotboom, Albert Guskov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Structural Interventions to Reduce and Eliminate Health Disparities. [PDF]

, 2019
Health disparities research in the United States over the past 2 decades has yielded considerable progress and contributed to a developing evidence base for interventions that tackle disparities in health status and access to care.
Zhu, Lin, Ma, Grace, Brown, Arleen F, Jones, Patricia, Ma, Grace X, Ma|, Eng, Eugenia, Castille, Dorothy, Brockie, Teresa, Miranda, Jeanne, Airhihenbuwa, Collins O, Airhihenbuwa, Collins O., Farhat, Tilda, Trinh-Shevrin, Chau, Brown, Arleen F., Zhu|   +15 more
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