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Identifying and tackling racial disparities in healthcare
Nursing, 2021Abstract: The US healthcare system is plagued with inequities that disproportionately impact people of color and other marginalized communities. This article discusses some of the key reasons behind these historic and current health disparities, identifies key terms, and discusses strategies for nurses who are interested in allying with ...
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Health Disparities and Healthcare Reform
Orthopaedic Nursing, 2009Healthcare reform continues to be an issue facing the American people whether they are politicians, healthcare providers, healthcare administrators, or patients and their families. Questions that are being addressed focus on improving access, reducing costs, delivering quality care, and having a more equitable distribution of benefits and burdens ...
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Disparities in Long-Term Healthcare
Nursing Clinics of North America, 2009Health disparities exist in long-term care as well as in the community. Disparities in healthcare typically result from the interplay of insurance; healthcare access; health literacy and cultural disparities; and geographic distribution. Residence in the nursing home complicates the situation since it introduces facility differences, regulations, and ...
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Adolescent Depression: National Trends, Risk Factors, and Healthcare Disparities.
American Journal of Health Behavior, 2019Objectives: This study examines national trends in the prevalence, risk factors, and treatment of depression among adolescents and investigate disparities in their mental health service use in the US. Methods: Data for adolescents aged 12 to 17 years (N =
Wenhua Lu
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Healthcare disparities and models for change.
The American journal of managed care, 2004With 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 documentation of health disparities and proceed with an agenda to translate policy recommendations into ...
Baquet, Claudia R +2 more
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An Overview of Healthcare Disparities
2008By the early 1980s, Wennberg et al., using small area analysis and geographic information systems analytic techniques, demonstrated that a significant amount of nonrandom medical practice variability existed between clinical practices in different geographic locales, despite treating clinically similar patients (Barnes, O’Brien, Comstock, D’Arpa ...
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Using Telehealth to Remediate Rural Mental Health and Healthcare Disparities
Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 2018“Deaths of despair”, deaths due to drugs, alcohol, and suicide, occur at higher rates in rural communities. The incidence of such deaths highlights underlying access and treatment disparities which result in poorer outcomes. Telehealth is a viable option
Carole R. Myers
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Disparities in dental healthcare utilization in China
Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology, 2018AbstractObjectivesThe goal of this study was to investigate inequality in dental service utilization in Chinese middle‐aged and senior adults and changes in inequality over time and to determine the sources of inequality.MethodsThe data included 17 648 individuals aged 45 years and older in 2013 and 15 450 individuals in 2015 who participated in the ...
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Race and Healthcare Disparities: Overcoming Vulnerability
Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 2002The paper summarizes recently published data and recommendations about healthcare disparities experienced by African Americans who have Medicare or other healthcare coverage. Against this background the paper addresses the ethics of such disparities and how disadvantages of vulnerable populations like African Americans are typically maintained in ...
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Healthcare Disparities at the Crossroads with Healthcare Reform
2011Healthcare disparities at the crossroads with healthcare reform , Healthcare disparities at the crossroads with healthcare reform , کتابخانه دیجیتال جندی شاپور ...
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