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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Public Conversations & Public Solutions: Making Health and Health Care Better in Minnesota [PDF]

, 2012
Between April and July 2012, more than 2,000 Minnesotans came together in more than 40 community conversations called Citizen Solutions to share their concerns about and ideas for fixing health care in the state.The results of the meeting (summarized in ...

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Labor unions: a public health institution. [PDF]

, 2015
Using a social-ecological framework, we drew on a targeted literature review and historical and contemporary cases from the US labor movement to illustrate how unions address physical and psychosocial conditions of work and the underlying inequalities ...
Malinowski, Beth, Minkler, Meredith, Stock, Laura   +2 more
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Public health genetics—potential for public health? [PDF]

European Journal of Public Health, 2005
Although it is well understood that the disciplines of medicine and public health are different in their goals and practices, in the context of genomics this difference is even more pronounced. While medical genetics concerns the clinical decision made by a doctor to use genomic knowledge for the benefit of the patient, public health genetics may be ...
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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Public health in Calcutta [PDF]

, 2003
'Wellcome History' is an easy and regular channel of communication between all Wellcome historians.

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Inpatient Food Insecurity and Pediatric Hematology Oncology Hospitalization Outcomes

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children with cancer and blood disorders are at risk for food insecurity (FI). We aimed to describe the association of inpatient food insecurity (IFI) and hospitalization outcomes among patients admitted to the pediatric hematology oncology service. Of 325 caregivers screened for IFI, 60 (18.6%) screened positive.
Joanna M. Robles, Greg Russell, Leila H. DeWitt, Kimberly Montez, Callie L. Brown   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Media, racism and public health psychology [PDF]

, 2006
A growing literature has established that racism contributes to ill-health of migrants, minority group members and indigenous peoples. Racial discrimination has been shown to act at personal, institutional and societal levels, negatively affecting ...
Abel, S., Adorno, T. W., Ajwani, S., Allport, G. W., Anderson, B., Angela Barnes, Ballara,A., Barrett, M., Belich, J., Belich, J., Biggs, B. G., Billig, M., Billig, M., Chomsky, N., Corin, E., Corner, J., Easton, B., Ericson, R. V., Essed, P., Fairclough, N., Fish, S., Fiske, J., Frank Pega, Hall, S., Hamilton, D. L., Hartley, J., Herman, E., Husband, C., Jackson, M., Jenny Rankine, Jones, C. P., Kawharu, H., Kernot, B., King, M., Lukes, M., Mallard, T., McCreanor, T., McCreanor, T., McCreanor, T., McCreanor,T. N., McGregor, J., McGregor, J., McGregor, J., McGregor, J., McQuail, D., Miles, R., Ngata, A., Nicolson, M., Orange, C., O’Neil, O., Potter, J., Ramsden, I., Rattansi, A., Raymond Nairn, Richmond, J. C., Ryan, W., Salmond, A., Sampson, E., Scammell, M., Sharp,A., Sinclair, K., Slater, D., Smith, L. T., Spoonley, P., Spoonley, P., Sykes, A., Sykes, A., Tim McCreanor, Turner, J. C., Valencia, R. R., Van Dijk, T. A., Walker, R., Walker, R., Walker, R., Westbrooke, I., Wetherell, M., Williams, D., Wilson, G., Yensen, H.   +78 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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