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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 +3 more
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Orphans of the Motherland: Puerto Rican Images of Spain in Jacobo Morales's Linda Sara
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature, 2006 Puerto Rican identity has been confounded by Puerto Rico's prolonged colonial relationship to Spain (nearly 80 years longer than that of most other Latin American colonies) and its abrupt change in status to that of United States protectorate in 1898 ...
Wadda C. Ríos-Font
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The Politics of Survival in Puerto Rico: The Balance of Forces in the Wake of Hurricane María
Alternautas, 2022 Puerto Rico’s left-wing forces have long tried to unify, a goal that has proven difficult to reach and even harder to sustain. At its strongest, the Left has faced intense repression from both the United States and the island’s colonial government. Yet,
Fernando Tormos
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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 2013 The struggles for environmental justice have become a fundamental part of Puerto Rican sociopolitical and anticolonial mobilizations since the mid‑twentieth century.
José M. Atiles-Osoria
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مجلة الآداب, 2022 This study aims at tracing the effect of the two worlds, Puerto Rico and the United States of America, on the poetry of the Latin American poet, Victor Hernandez Cruz (1949 - ).
Mohammed Nihad Nafea Al-Sammarraie, MA student +1 more
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Anthurium A Caribbean Studies Journal, 2021 Review of Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes. Translocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance. University of Michigan Press, 2021. 356 pages.
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Periodontitis and metabolic diseases (diabetes and obesity): Tackling multimorbidity
Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023 Abstract Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) are multifactorial, long‐term, chronic conditions that represent a burden to health‐care systems worldwide as they can only be controlled rather than cured; hence, they require long‐term care. With the exponential increase in NCDs, the occurrence of individuals presenting with more than one chronic disease is ...
Crystal Marruganti +2 more
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Strain variation in the infectivity of Schistosoma mansoni for Biomphalaria glabrata
Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 1988 Five strains of Schistosoma mansoni resistant and susceptible to schistosomicides were studied for infectivity of 2 strains of Biomphalaria glabrata one of Puerto Rican origin and the other of Brazilian origin. Puerto Rican strains of S.
Luiz Candido de Souza Dias +2 more
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Social Capital Accumulation among Puerto Rican Mothers in Urban Neighborhoods
Societies, 2017 Social capital provides access to material and personal resources through participation in social networks and other social structures. Social capital may not function equally for all populations, especially those living in residentially segregated urban
Phillip J. Granberry +1 more
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Bodegas, Baseball & Ballads: The Democratization of Puerto Rican Identity
Caribbean Quilt, 2022 Evident within many diasporic communities is a group consciousness and organization that operates in non-institutional spaces outside the realms of government agencies.
Ruth Masuka
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