A more sophisticated understanding of culture is also required to move towards addressing health disparities in older ages, in particular understanding culture-bound factors that contribute to preventive health activities and health care use. In order to address these challenges, this study applies the ...
Factors that contribute to post-treatment follow-up care for survivors of childhood cancer 来自 Semantic Scholar 喜欢 0 阅读量: 21 作者:LP Barakat,LA Schwartz,MM Szabo,HM Hussey,GR Bunin 摘要: Introduction As children complete cancer treatment and enter survivorship, follow-up care is critical ...
88.5% of older adults with disabilities had easy access to medical care close to their homes and received good social support; the researchers also found that perceived factors regarding services provided for people with disabilities and social support were associated with access to health services [...
Many of the risk factors that contribute to the disparities in burden are amenable to medical treatment within the context of supportive behavioral and lifestyle changes. For example, many cardiovascular risk factors, such as high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels, can now be treated more...
The major battles for health disparities are insurance coverage and use of preventive health services that could help eliminate co-morbidities such as obesity and diabetes, Carethers notes. The authors offer several suggestions that would impact both cancer and COVID-19 outcomes: ...
Our findings have the potential to advance our understanding of social cognition in aging populations by elucidating the factors that contribute to performance variability in current assessments. This knowledge can inform the development of tailored predictive models and tools to assess and improve social...
This sequential adjustment helps illustrate the social and demographic factors that contribute to the association of race and clinical outcomes from COVID-19. Black patients hospitalized with COVID-19 had 11% higher odds of mortality than White patients—even after adjustment for those individual-...
percentage of everything that impacts a person's wellness. It's important for us to start treating patients in a way that engages with their whole humanity and their whole selves. That means thinking about food access, housing, work, and all the different factors that contribute to their ...
5, or when considering multiple diseases6,7, do not use a single metric that can capture overall disease burden, apart from studies on lifespan8,9,10. It is therefore challenging to assess the impact of genetic variation on overall health and to compare the total impact of different ...
Identifying the factors that contribute to the treatment outcomes of TB is essential to developing and recommending prompt solutions. The patient's gender was substantially related to the success of their TB treatments. Males were more than two times more likely to have successful TB treatment outcom...