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Racial disparities in gun violence: current evidence, an integrated cascading perspective, knowledge gaps, policy prescriptions [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
At the intersection of public health and violence is the glaring disparity surrounding racial disparities in gun violence. This mini-review summarizes what is known about racial disparities in gun violence, identifies some of the key theoretical ...
Alex R. Piquero
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The data will not save us: Afropessimism and racial antimatter in the COVID-19 pandemic

Big Data & Society, 2022
The Trump Administration's governance of COVID-19 racial health disparities data has become a key front in the viral war against the pandemic and racial health injustice.
Anthony Ryan Hatch
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Racial/ethnic disparities in the cause of death among patients with prostate cancer in the United States from 1995 to 2019: a population-based retrospective cohort studyResearch in context

EClinicalMedicine, 2023
Summary: Background: Racial/ethnic disparities in prostate cancer are reported in the United States (US). However, long-term trends and contributors of racial/ethnic disparities in all-cause and cause-specific death among patients with prostate cancer ...
Hongmei Zeng, Mengyuan Xu, Yingwei Xie, Sergiusz Nawrocki, Jakub Morze, Xianhui Ran, Tianhao Shan, Changfa Xia, Yixin Wang, Lingeng Lu, Xue Qin Yu, Catarina Machado Azeredo, John S. Ji, Xiaomei Yuan, Katherine Curi-Quinto, Yuexin Liu, Bingsheng Liu, Tao Wang, Hao Ping, Edward L. Giovannucci   +19 more
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Racial Discrimination, Social Disadvantage, and Racial–Ethnic Disparities in COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake

AJPM Focus, 2023
Introduction: Racial–ethnic disparities in COVID-19 vaccination are well documented. The extent to which racism, manifested at the individual and ZIP code levels, explains disparities in early vaccination uptake remains unclear.
Alein Y. Haro-Ramos, MPH, Adrian M. Bacong, PhD, MPH, Hector P. Rodriguez, PhD, MPH   +2 more
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Obstetrical health care inequities in a universally insured health care systemAJOG Global Reports at a Glance

AJOG Global Reports, 2023
BACKGROUND: Racial and ethnic disparities in health care exist and are rooted in long-standing systemic inequities. These disparities result in significant excess health care expenditures and are due to complex interactions between patients, health care ...
Shara Fuller, MD, Molly Kuenstler, MD, Marie Snipes, PhD, Michael Miller, MD, Monica A. Lutgendorf, MD   +4 more
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Estimating racial health disparities among adverse birth outcomes as deviations from the population rates

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2020
Background Despite significant research, the reasons for racial health disparities among adverse birth outcomes (ABO) remain largely unknown. The bulk of research into racial health disparities among ABO in the United States has concentrated on the risk ...
James A. Thompson, Melissa A. Suter
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Racial and ethnic disparities in the perception of respect from physicians among skin cancer patients in the United StatesCapsule Summary

JAAD International, 2023
Background: Racial and ethnic minority groups are at increased risk of poor skin cancer outcomes. Successful patient-physician communication is linked to better health outcomes, but it is unknown whether disparities in perceived care exist among skin ...
Lauren M. Fahmy, BS, Celine M. Schreidah, BS, Larisa J. Geskin, MD   +2 more
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Racial Disparities in Surgery

Annals of Surgery Open, 2020
Objective:. To determine if Black race is associated with worse short-term postoperative morbidity and mortality when compared to White race in a contemporary, cross-specialty-matched cohort. Background:.
Arash Azin, MD, Dhruvin H. Hirpara, MD, Sachin Doshi, MD, MEng, Tyler R. Chesney, MD, MSc, Fayez A. Quereshy, MD, MBA, Sami A. Chadi, MD, MSc   +5 more
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Racial disparities in infant mortality: what has birth weight got to do with it and how large is it?

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2010
Background It has been hypothesized that birth weight is not on the causal pathway to infant mortality, at least among "normal" births (i.e. those located in the central part of the birth weight distribution), and that US racial disparities (African ...
O'Neill Erin K, Fang Fu, Gage Timothy B, DiRienzo A Gregory   +3 more
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Neighborhood and Household Environment as Contributors to Racial Disparities in Sleep Duration among U.S. Adolescents

Sleep Epidemiology, 2023
Objective: Racial disparities in adolescent sleep duration have been documented, but pathways driving these disparities are not well understood.
Ryan Saelee, Regine Haardörfer, Dayna A. Johnson, Julie A. Gazmararian, Shakira F. Suglia   +4 more
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