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Effectiveness of Telemedicine in Diabetes Management: A Retrospective Study in an Urban Medically Underserved Population Area (UMUPA)

Informatics, 2023
This paper examines the efficacy of telemedicine (TM) technology compared to traditional face-to-face (F2F) visits as an alternative healthcare delivery service for managing diabetes in populations residing in urban medically underserved areas (UMUPAs ...
Lisa Ariellah Ward, Gulzar H. Shah, Jeffery A. Jones, Linda Kimsey, Hani Samawi   +4 more
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Behavioral determinants for vaccine acceptability among rurally located college students

Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine, 2018
Background: College-aged adults in a rural and medically-underserved area often struggle to receive proper vaccinations due to lower socioeconomic status coupled with life demands.
Rebecca K. Britt, Andrew M. Englebert
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A 10-year analysis of metastatic prostate cancer as an initial presentation in an underserved population

International Brazilian Journal of Urology, 2014
Objective To analyze patients from an underserved area who presented initially with metastatic prostate cancer in order to identify patients in our population who would suffer greatly if PSA screening was eliminated.
Andrew G. Winer, John P. Sfakianos, Llewellyn M. Hyacinthe, Brian K. McNeil   +3 more
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Prenatal Nutrition and Fetal Macrosomia in Medically Underserved Areas [PDF]

Journal of Nutritional Therapeutics, 2012
Though fetal Macrosomia is often defined as a condition in which the fetus is 4000 grams or more in weight, controversy exists on the exact birth weight that can be used as a bench mark.  Fetal macrosomia creates several diagnostic and management difficulties in developed countries.
Ute Inegbenebor, Maureen Ebomoyi
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease

Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022
Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian, Marina Serper, Norah Terrault, Lauren D. Nephew   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Designing financial-incentive programmes for return of medical service in underserved areas: seven management functions

Human Resources for Health, 2009
In many countries worldwide, health worker shortages are one of the main constraints in achieving population health goals. Financial-incentive programmes for return of service, whereby participants receive payments in return for a commitment to practise ...
Bärnighausen Till, Bloom David E
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Entendendo a necessidade de médicos no interior da Amazônia - Brasil

Revista Brasileira de Educação Médica
Um dos dilemas atuais do setor saúde no mundo é a má distribuição de médicos entre áreas rurais e urbanas, e entre capitais e interior. No Brasil, a Região Norte é a que possui a menor quantidade de médicos por habitantes.
Rodrigo Pinheiro Silveira, Roseni Pinheiro   +1 more
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Addressing the Rural and Underserved Healthcare Workforce Needs: Residency Specialty Selection and Workforce Outcomes of the WWAMI AHEC Scholars Program

Journal of Regional Medical Campuses
Introduction: The availability of well-trained healthcare providers in rural and medically underserved areas in the United States is crucial for improving health outcomes.
Kenya Morales-Luna , Stacey Morrison, Toby Keys   +2 more
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Developing evidence‐based, cost‐effective P4 cancer medicine for driving innovation in prevention, therapeutics, patient care and reducing healthcare inequalities

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
The cancer problem is increasing globally with projections up to the year 2050 showing unfavourable outcomes in terms of incidence and cancer‐related deaths. The main challenges are prevention, improved therapeutics resulting in increased cure rates and enhanced health‐related quality of life.
Ulrik Ringborg, Joachim von Braun, Julio Celis, Anton Berns, Michael Baumann, Tit Albreht, Nancy Abou‐Zeid, Vanderlei Bagnato, Christian Brandts, Chien‐Jen Chen, Massimiliano di Pietro, Manjit Dosanjh, Thomas Dubois, Alexander Eggermont, Angelika Eggert, Ingemar Ernberg, Sara Faithfull, Johannes Förner, Stefan Fröhling, Manuel Heitor, Leroy Hood, Wei Jiang, Bengt Jönsson, Ravi Kannan, Maria Leptin, Su Li, Peter Lindgren, Douglas Lowy, Jun Ma, Alex Markham, Péter Nagy, Simon Oberst, M. Iqbal Parker, Danielle Rodin, Kevin Ryan, Joachim Schüz, Richard Sullivan, Josep Tabernero, Peter Turkson, Oliver Várhelyi, Harold Varmus, Chijie Wang, Elisabete Weiderpass, Nils Wilking   +43 more
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Abandonment of prescriptions in medically underserved areas: Primary medication non-adherence in community pharmacies in the delta region of the United States

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: In the U.S. alone, medication non-adherence is estimated to cause 1 in 10 hospitalizations, approximately 125,000 deaths annually, and cost the U.S. healthcare system just under $300 billion each year. Patients in medically underserved areas (
Minghui Li, Matthew Harmon, Mike Wasson, Lindsey Cardosi, Lindsey Henson, Hunter Hill, Brad Ian Jobe, Sydnee E. Hewitt, Kenneth C. Hohmeier   +8 more
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