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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to and Quality of Health Care [PDF]
, 2007 Reviews research on racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and quality and analyzes findings on the extent to which disparities can be attributed to factors other than race/ethnicity, such as insurance, socioeconomic status, and ...
Jose J. Escarce
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Disparities in Health Care Utilization by Smoking Status – NHANES 1999-2004 [PDF]
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2009 The objective of this study was to assess disparities in health care utilization, by smoking status, among adults in the United States.We used 1999–2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) data from 15,332 adults.Multivariate logistic regressions were used to examine the relationship between smoking status (current, former, and ...
Kahende, Jennifer W. +4 more
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright +13 more
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Necessity of Analyzing the Korea Community Health Survey Using 7 Local Government Types [PDF]
Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public HealthObjectives This study examined the potential of a new analytical framework for the Korea Community Health Survey (KCHS) with classification criteria for the sub-national governmental level, the degree of urbanization including an urban-rural multimodal ...
Seowoo Park +5 more
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Creating Community Environments That Promote Comprehensive Health and Wellness [PDF]
, 2006 Describes the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on the health of the residents of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. Outlines strategies to identify effective programs designed to reduce health disparities and improve health status in the ...
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The newfound relationship between extrachromosomal DNAs and excised signal circles
FEBS Letters, EarlyView.Extrachromosomal DNAs (ecDNAs) contribute to the progression of many human cancers. In addition, circular DNA by‐products of V(D)J recombination, excised signal circles (ESCs), have roles in cancer progression but have largely been overlooked. In this Review, we explore the roles of ecDNAs and ESCs in cancer development, and highlight why these ...
Dylan Casey, Zeqian Gao, Joan Boyes
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Health Equity, 2019 Purpose: There is growing concern that value-based payment for health care may disadvantage health care organizations that serve populations with social risk.
Judy H. Ng
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BMC Geriatrics, 2021 Backgrounds Health disparities represent a major public health problem that needs to be addressed, and a variety of factors, including geographical location and income, can contribute to these disparities.
Kyu-Tae Han, Dong-Woo Choi, Seungju Kim
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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity [PDF]
, 2017 In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in ...
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FEBS Letters, EarlyView.This study reveals how the mitochondrial protein Slm35 is regulated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The authors identify stress‐responsive DNA elements and two upstream open reading frames (uORFs) in the 5′ untranslated region of SLM35. One uORF restricts translation, and its mutation increases Slm35 protein levels and mitophagy.
Hernán Romo‐Casanueva +5 more
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