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 +2 more
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Addressing Health Disparities Through Organizational Change - Evaluation Report [PDF]
, 2012 In the coming decades, racial and ethnic minorities will constitute more than 50% of many states' populations -- including that of Colorado. Individuals of racial and ethnic minority status are disproportionally affected by disease and disability and ...
Kien Lee, LaKeesha Woods
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Influence of Socioeconomic Factors, Gender and Indigenous Status on Smoking in Taiwan. [PDF]
, 2016 The indigenous Austronesian minority of Taiwan is heavily affected by health disparities which may include suffering from a greater burden of the tobacco epidemic.
Hwang, Chiou-Wei +8 more
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SSM - Population Health, 2022 The association between low socioeconomic status (SES), migration background and psychosocial health could be various in different age stages, rare research has investigated associations in very early childhood. Cross-sectional data of SES, parental migration background, and child's psychosocial problems among 2149 children were collected (M age = 24.6
Jie Luo +4 more
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Correlation of the differential expression of PIK3R1 and its spliced variant, p55α, in pan‐cancer
Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.PIK3R1 undergoes alternative splicing to generate the isoforms, p85α and p55α. By combining large patient datasets with laboratory experiments, we show that PIK3R1 spliced variants shape cancer behavior. While tumors lose the protective p85α isoform, p55α is overexpressed, changes linked to poorer survival and more pronounced in African American ...
Ishita Gupta +10 more
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An overview of reviews on strategies to reduce health inequalities
International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020 Background Governments are incentivized to develop and implement health action programs focused on equity to ensure progress with effective strategies or interventions.
Nathaly Garzón-Orjuela +5 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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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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Putting Women's Health Care Disparities on the Map: Examining Racial and Ethnic Disparities at the State Level [PDF]
, 2009 Assesses the racial/ethnic disparities in women's health status, access to and utilization of health care, and social factors such as poverty and gender wage gap by state.
Alina Salganicoff +5 more
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The Impact of the Zika Epidemic on Women’s Reproductive Intentions and Behaviors in Brazil [PDF]
, 2017 This research brief reports on a focus group study that explores how and why the Zika virus affects reproductive processes in Brazil. The authors found that both reproductive intentions and behaviors changed as a result of the Zika epidemic among women ...
Alves, Sandra Valongueiro +3 more
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