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Enhancing existing medical school curricula with an innovative healthcare disparities curriculum

BMC Medical Education, 2021
Background Effective healthcare disparities curricula seek to train physicians who are well equipped to address the health needs of an increasingly diverse society.
Sean Treacy-Abarca, Marisela Aguilar, Stefanie D. Vassar, Estebes Hernandez, Neveen S. El-Farra, Arleen F. Brown   +5 more
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Decomposing Disability Inequality in Unmet Healthcare Needs and Preventable Hospitalizations: An Analysis of the Korea Health Panel

International Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objectives: This study examines the inequality between people with and without disabilities regarding unmet healthcare needs and preventable hospitalization.Methods: We used the Korea Health Panel of 2016–2018; the final analytical observations were 43 ...
Sujin Kim, Boyoung Jeon
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A cancer disparities curriculum in a hematology/oncology fellowship program

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background After George Floyd’s murder in 2020, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called systemic racism a public health crisis. This health crisis is connected to the already-documented racial and socioeconomic disparities in cancer ...
Marium Husain, Muhammad Salman Faisal, Dionisia Quiroga, Audrey M Sigmund, Gregory Otterson, Alison Walker, Samilia Obeng-Gyasi, Beth Christian   +7 more
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Healthcare disparities and models for change. [PDF]

, 2004
With Healthy People 2010 making the goal of eliminating health disparities a national priority, policymakers, researchers, medical centers, managed care organizations (MCOs), and advocacy organizations have been called on to move beyond the historic ...
Baquet, Claudia R, Bengen-Seltzer, Barbara, Carter-Pokras, Olivia   +2 more
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Global Health Disparities: A Pressing Issue and a Student-based Initiative to Help

University of Ottawa Journal of Medicine, 2021
: Developing countries, such as India, suffer profound healthcare disparities compared to developed countries. This commentary explores these healthcare disparities, the barriers to improving healthcare in developing countries, and potential solutions to
David Ripsman
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Racial disparities in diabetes prevalence among cancer patients

Frontiers in Oncology, 2023
IntroductionCancer inequity is one of the most critical public health issues faced by ethnic minorities and people of lower socioeconomic status. The disparate burden of cancer is caused by poor access to care and inadequate delivery of cancer treatment,
Kimlin Tam Ashing, Gaole Song, Veronica Jones, Veronica Jones, Charles Brenner, Raynald Samoa   +5 more
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Gynecologic oncology patients are ready for telemedicine in routine care: Results from a pre-COVID survey

Gynecologic Oncology Reports, 2021
Objectives: To assess telemedicine readiness of gynecologic oncology patients, particularly those at risk for care access disparities (increased distance to care, rural populations.) Methods: Patients at all disease/treatment stages completed an ...
J. Dholakia, J. Kim, M.I. Liang, R.C. Arend, K.S. Bevis, J.M. Straughn, Jr., C.A. Leath, III, W.K. Huh, H.J. Smith   +8 more
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Insights into measuring health disparities using electronic health records from a statewide network of health systems: A case study

Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023
Within Wisconsin, our residents experience some of the worst health disparities in the nation. Public reporting on disparities in the quality of care is important to achieving accountability for reducing disparities over time and has been associated with
Maureen A. Smith, Matthew Gigot, Abbey Harburn, Lauren Bednarz, Katherine Curtis, Jomol Mathew, Dorothy Farrar-Edwards   +6 more
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Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy: A Literature Review - Pathophysiology, Current Management, Future Perspectives, and Healthcare Disparities. [PDF]

US Cardiol
Traub A, Sharma A, Gongora MC.
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Healthcare disparities amongst vulnerable populations of Arabs and Jews in Israel

Israel Journal of Health Policy Research, 2018
The complex nature of studying health and healthcare disparities in general, and in the context of the Israeli healthcare system in particular, is depicted in two recent IJHPR articles.
Efrat Shadmi
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