Health disparities, cultural awareness, and Indigenous health: Results from a health educator survey

Gender disparities in health and healthcare: results from the Portuguese National Health Interview Survey.

Although women experience poorer health conditions during their lives, they live longer than men. The main explanations for this paradox suggest that women's excess of ill-health is limited to minor illnesses and their different attitudes toward health. The authors test these assumptions by investigating disparities between men and women in health and healthcare in Portugal. Data are used from ...

Assessment of public health educator practice: health educator responsibilities.

This study presents a method for better understanding how practicing health educators in local health departments spend their time. The purpose of this study was to document the daily practice of health educators in the 10 areas of responsibility as defined by a competency-based framework for graduate-level health educators. The results of the current study present the average percentage of tim...

Using the Health and Retirement Survey to Investigate Health Disparities

Awareness of Racial and Socioeconomic Health Disparities in the United States: The National Opinion Survey on Health and Health Disparities, 2008-2009

INTRODUCTION Recent initiatives aim to improve public awareness of health disparities. However, little research has actually documented the US public's awareness of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health disparities. We sought to determine 1) whether the US public is aware of racial, educational, and income disparities in health, 2) whether awareness differs across these disparity domains, and ...

Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders and Health Care Disparities: Results from the National Survey of Children's Health, 2011-2012.

Parents of children ages 2-17 (N = 85,637) were asked questions related to mental disorders in the 2011-2012 National Survey of Children's Health. Pearson's χ2 test and logistic regression were used to examine sociodemographic differences in the prevalence of mental disorders, mental health service needs, and service use. The lifetime and current prevalence of mental disorders was 21% and 14.8%...