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Healthcare Disparities and Colorectal Cancer. [PDF]
Surg Oncol Clin N Am, 2022 Health care disparities are defined as health differences between groups that are avoidable, unnecessary, and unjust. Racial disparities in colorectal cancer mortality, particularly for Black patients, are well-described. Disparities in preventative measures, early detection, effective treatment, and posttreatment services contribute to these ...
Hollis RH, Chu DI.
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The Great American Recession and forgone healthcare: Do widened disparities between African-Americans and Whites remain? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 During the Great Recession in America, African-Americans opted to forgo healthcare more than other racial/ethnic groups. It is not understood whether disparities in forgone care returned to pre-recession levels.
Jasmine L Travers +3 more
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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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Telehealth for Communities: Toward Eliminating Rural Health Disparities
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012 The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) (2007) documents issues in both quality of healthcare and access to healthcare providing information to policymakers, clinicians, administrators, and community leaders for the improvement of health.
Barbara Ann Graves
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Community-Based Participatory Research: Toward Eliminating Rural Health Disparities
Online Journal of Rural Nursing and Health Care, 2012 The National Healthcare Disparities Report (NHDR) (2008) tracks and documents access to healthcare as well as quality of healthcare. This report provides information to policymakers, clinicians, administrators, and community leaders for the improvement ...
Barbara Ann Graves
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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 +5 more
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Healthcare Outcome Disparities in Trauma Care [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2012 A recent article by Dr. Haider et al1, “Association between Hospitals Caring for a Disproportionately High Percentage of Minority Trauma Patients and Increased Mortality: A Nationwide Analysis of 434 Hospitals,” raised the question of whether there was an increased mortality risk among trauma patients treated at hospitals with higher proportions of ...
Kenneth L Wilson +3 more
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Clinical Uncertainty and Healthcare Disparities
American Journal of Law & Medicine, 2003 The Institute of Medicine Report, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities, affirms in its first finding: “Racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare exist and, because they are associated with worse outcomes in many cases, are unacceptable.” The mechanisms that generate racial and ethnic disparities in medical care operate at the
Bloche, Maxwell Gregg +3 more
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Healthcare as a Determinant of Socioeconomic Security – Regional Disparities in Poland [PDF]
Košická bezpečnostná revue, 2019 Healthcare constitutes essential determinant of socioeconomic security, both for individuals and in regard to national economies. It includes numerous elements, such as healthcare infrastructure, medical personnel and access to medical procedures and ...
Iwona PAWLAS, Ksenia PAWLAS
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Critical Public HealthThe terms transparency and accountability appear in various disciplines and frameworks as organizational ideals or guiding principles for governance, but there is limited cross-sector analysis of what these terms mean and how they may be employed to ...
Ida Griesemer +6 more
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