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Pediatric appendicitis rupture rate: a national indicator of disparities in healthcare access
Population Health Metrics, 2005 Background The U.S. National Healthcare Disparities Report is a recent effort to measure and monitor racial and ethnic disparities in health and healthcare. The Report is a work in progress and includes few indicators specific to children.
Guagliardo Mark F, Jablonski Kathleen A
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Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundHealthcare disparities remain a significant challenge in addressing equitable healthcare access and outcomes for minority populations, including African Americans.
Ebenezer Larnyo +5 more
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Access to Healthcare and Health Disparities [PDF]
, 2020 The notion of healthcare access is often considered in discussions of the state of healthcare systems. Arguments concerning the problem of healthcare access usually focus on two main aspects. One refers to access problems caused by physical constraints including availability of healthcare facilities or staff, distance to healthcare facilities, and the ...
Katsunori Kondo, Chiyoe Murata
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Uro, 2023 Introduction: Renal failure, encompassing both acute and chronic forms, stands as a formidable public health challenge with far-reaching consequences for individual well-being and healthcare systems.
Oscar Salichs +4 more
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Disparities in Maternal Healthcare Services
Ethiopian Journal of Health Sciences, 2020 Editorial message
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International Journal for Equity in Health, 2013 Introduction The 2010 Census revealed the population of Latino and Asian children grew by 5.5 million, while the population of white children declined by 4.3 million from 2000-2010, and minority children will outnumber white children by 2020.
Flores Glenn, Lin Hua
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Antidepressant use pattern and disparities among cancer patients in the United States
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 Many cancer patients also suffer from depression, however, pharmacotherapy of depression and related disparities in US cancer survivors have not been examined in a nationally representative sample.
Jingrui Zou, Yong Zhu
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Osteoporosis Healthcare Disparities in Postmenopausal Women [PDF]
Journal of Women's Health, 2012 Previous studies in referral populations have shown that fewer African American women complete dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (DXA) screening and are prescribed medications for osteoporosis. This study examines if these disparities exist in primary care practices.Of 4748 eligible women ≥60 years of age in primary care practices, we randomly selected ...
Dorothy Agbafe-Mosley +3 more
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Analysis of Compatibility between the Need and Utilization of Health Services in West of Iran: Panel of Two Cross-Sectional Studies [PDF]
Journal of Evidence Based Health Policy, Management & Economics, 2023 Background: Individuals with the same needs are eligible to use required healthcare services, which is rarely taken into account in health systems. The present research evaluated this issue by investigating the determinants of the need for outpatient ...
Ali Soroush +5 more
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Healthcare disparities in thoracic malignancies [PDF]
Journal of Thoracic Disease, 2021 Virginia R. Litle, Kei Suzuki
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