نتایج جستجو برای: health disparities
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Health disparities are a public health concern in Rhode Island and around the world. Faculty members and students in the Brown University School of Public Health are working to understand, address, and ultimately eliminate disparities in health and health care affecting diverse populations. Our educational offerings and research efforts are directed toward understanding and addressing the socia...
Background: Health disparities between American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) women and other races/ethnicities have long been noted. Obstetrician-Gynecologists (Ob-Gyns) play a significant role in well-woman care and are often the first and most frequent point of medical contact for women, particularly among minority and low-income women. Objective: This study aimed to assess Ob-Gyns’ knowledge...
Disparities in cardiovascular health are among the most serious public health problems in the United States today. Despite the remarkable declines in cardiovascular mortality observed nationally over the last 3 decades, many population subgroups defined by race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, educational level, or geography show striking, and often widening, disparities in cardiovascu...
In the United States, those at highest risk for stroke are the least aware of it. White and coauthors of the Northern Manhattan project in an article published in Circulation1 report that the annual age adjusted incidence of first ischemic stroke per 100 000 was 88 in whites, 149 in Hispanics and 191 in blacks. And yet, among Hispanic women, only 29% identified sudden weakness or numbness on on...
1Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK 2Department of Primary Care and Public Health, Imperial College London, London W6 8RP, UK 3Academic Unit of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton SO16 6YD, UK 4Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 4502 E. 41st Street, SAC 1G06, Tuls...
There are well-known Black-White disparities in adverse birth outcomes, health behaviors, and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These disparities hold across socioeconomic status and have remained stable for the past 50 years despite efforts to reduce them. This theoretical review argues that such disparities may be largely a function of residential segregation, ie, t...
Health disparities related to race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status persist and are commonly encountered by practitioners of pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine in the United States. To address such disparities and thus progress toward equality in respiratory health, the American Thoracic Society and the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened a works...
BACKGROUND Racial/ethnic disparities are associated with lack of health insurance. Although the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) provides health insurance to low-income children, many of whom are members of racial/ethnic minority groups, little is known about whether SCHIP affects racial/ethnic disparities among children who enroll. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this study wer...
Commentary Commentaire H omelessness, a phenomenon with complex causes and potential for tragic consequences, is a public health and societal problem in cities, towns and rural areas worldwide. Men, women and children — be they refugees in Eastern Europe, street children in Uganda or what the developed world thinks of as " the homeless " — make up a growing vulnerable population that is at an u...
No one approves of it. Our laws prohibit it. Yet racism will not go away. We continue to demonstrate that a colorblind society is just a society where color lurks in the blind spot. Disparities in healthcare offer a telling illustration of how durably racism is woven in our social fabric, and how easy it is for subtle, unconscious differences in treatment to add up to significant disparities in...
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