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Racial inequalities in access to healthcare services in Brazil (2019): a decomposition analysis [PDF]

BMC Health Services Research
Background Racial and ethnic inequalities in access to healthcare services pose a significant challenge for many countries, with ethnic minorities and Afro-descendants frequently experiencing poorer access to services and health outcomes. However, little
Rony Coelho, Rudi Rocha, Thomas Hone
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A descriptive study of racial inequalities in mortality from hepatocellular cancer before and after licensure of lifesaving drugs for hepatitis C virus in the United States [PDF]

EClinicalMedicine, 2020
Background: Since 1979, mortality from hepatocellular cancer (HCC) has doubled in the United States (US). Lifesaving drugs, prohibitively expensive for some, were approved and marketed to treat hepatitis C virus (HCV), a major risk factor for HCC ...
Roger Zoorob, Muktar Aliyu, Jason L Salemi   +2 more
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Racial inequalities in eligibility and access to lung cancer screening: systematic review of United States studies [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Introduction In 2021, the United States Preventive Services Task Force introduced new guidelines aimed at reducing racial inequalities by lowering the smoking threshold and expanding age eligibility for screening.
Ya Yambao Yang, Courtney McNamara, David Stuckler   +2 more
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Improvements in data completeness in health information systems reveal racial inequalities: longitudinal national data from hospital admissions in Brazil 2010–2022 [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health
Background Race and ethnicity are important drivers of health inequalities worldwide. However, the recording of race/ethnicity in data systems is frequently insufficient, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Rony Coelho, Rudi Rocha, Thomas Hone
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Ethno-racial inequalities on adverse birth and neonatal outcomes: a nationwide, retrospective cohort study of 21 million Brazilian newbornsResearch in context [PDF]

The Lancet Regional Health. Americas
Summary: Background: Ethno-racial inequalities are critical determinants of health outcomes. We quantified ethnic-racial inequalities on adverse birth outcomes and early neonatal mortality in Brazil.
Poliana Rebouças, Enny S. Paixão, Dandara Ramos, Julia Pescarini, Elzo Pereira Pinto-Junior, Ila R. Falcão, Maria Yury Ichihara, Samila Sena, Rafael Veiga, Rita Ribeiro, Laura C. Rodrigues, Maurício L. Barreto, Emanuelle F. Goes   +12 more
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Editorial: Dismantling racial inequalities in higher education [PDF]

Frontiers in Sociology
Carol Azumah Dennis, Judy Chandler
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Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021
This paper aims at an improved understanding of the relationship between monetary policy and racial inequality. We investigate the distributional effects of monetary policy in a unified framework, linking monetary policy shocks both to earnings and wealth differentials between black and white households.
Bartscher, Alina Kristin, Kuhn, Moritz, Schularick, Moritz, Wachtel, Paul   +3 more
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Racial inequalities in health: Framing future research [PDF]

Social Science and Medicine, 2018
Nicole Kravitz-Wirtz, Myles Durkee, James S Jackson   +2 more
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The weight of racism: Vigilance and racial inequalities in weight-related measures [PDF]

Social Science and Medicine, 2018
Anna K Hing, Hedwig Lee
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Socioeconomic and racial/ethnic inequalities in depression prevalence and the treatment gap in Brazil: A decomposition analysis

SSM: Population Health, 2022
Depression is a major global health burden and there are stark socioeconomic inequalities in both the prevalence of depression and access to treatment for depression.
Matías Mrejen, Thomas Hone, Rudi Rocha
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