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Racial Differences and Racial Disparities [PDF]
Circulation, 2015 Those who practice medicine in the United States are unavoidably confronted by the fact that health status, disease burden, and life span vary by population groups – particularly the persistent reality that cardiovascular disease outcomes are poorer in African Americans than in European Americans (the majority reference group), Asian Americans (those ...
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Racial Disparities in Primary Hyperparathyroidism
World Journal of Surgery, 2020 AbstractBackgroundRacial disparities in surgery are increasingly recognized. We evaluated the impact of race on presentation, preoperative evaluation, and surgical outcomes for patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT).MethodsWe performed a retrospective cohort study of patients undergoing parathyroidectomy for PHPT ...
Jennifer Fieber +6 more
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Health Equity, 2021 Purpose: Research suggests that providers contribute to racial disparities in health outcomes. Identifying modifiable provider perspectives that are associated with decreased racial disparities will help in the design of effective educational ...
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Social Sciences, 2021 Economic threat arguments within the broader racial/ethnic threat theory suggest that economic competition between minorities and Whites encourages the majority group to apply formal social controls on minorities to maintain their advantaged positions ...
Christopher D’Amato +2 more
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Mortality Across the Veterans Health Administration
Health Equity, 2019 Purpose: Equal-access health care systems such as the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) reduce financial and nonfinancial barriers to care. It is unknown if such systems mitigate racial/ethnic mortality disparities, such as those well documented in ...
Michelle S. Wong +8 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2023 Despite the growing literature on racial-ethnic disparities during the pandemic, less is known about the explanatory mechanisms of these disparities and inequalities across other axes, such as gender and sexual identities.
Xuewen Yan +4 more
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Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Nursing Home Quality of Life Deficiencies, 2001 to 2011
Gerontology and Geriatric Medicine, 2016 Objectives: Racial/ethnic disparities in nursing homes (NHs) are associated with lower quality of care, and state Medicaid payment policies may influence NH quality. However, no studies analyzing disparities in NH quality of life (QoL) exist.
Lauren J. Campbell MA +3 more
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Racial Disparity in Police Contacts [PDF]
Race and Justice, 2012 Criminologists agree the race disparity in arrests cannot be fully explained by differences in criminal behavior. The authors examine social environment factors that may lead to racial differences in police contact in early adolescence, including family, peers, school, and community. Data are from 331 eighth-grade students.
Robert D, Crutchfield +4 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 The five-year survival rate of childhood cancer has increased substantially over the past 50 yr; however, racial/ethnic disparities in health outcomes of survival have not been systematically reviewed.
Tegan J. Reeves +9 more
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AERA Open, 2020 On this 50th-year anniversary of Alexander v. Holmes Board of Education (1969) nationally enforcing school desegregation in fall 1970, Mississippi is being sued for racial disparities in public education between Black students and White students in ...
LaTanya L. Dixon
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