“any health-related factor—disease burden, diagnosis, response to treatment, quality of life, health behaviors and access to care, to name only a few—that exist among population groups. Health disparities are associated with a broad, complex, and interrelated array of factors, and may reflect...
Socioeconomic Factors and Health Status Disparities Associated with Difficulty in ADLs and IADLs among Long-Lived Populations in Brazil: A Cross-Sectional ... Socioeconomic Factors and Health Status Disparities Associated with Difficulty in ADLs and IADLs among Long-Lived Populations in Brazil: A ...
If health damage occurs through a cumulative process, chronic diseases can be seen as the products of repeated encounters with both psychologically and physically stressful experiences. "Strong associations have been shown between retrospective adult reports of increasing numbers of traumatic childhood events...
According to the report, health varies at a county level, and according to characteristics such as race and gender. Disparities are also associated with ethnicity, language, sexual orientation, education, income, and social class. Many disparities can be prevented. Policies can be targeted toward t...
12and the US National Academy of Medicine.13The historic gap in access to these technologies appears to be widening at a time when technology dependence is growing. This widening chasm threatens to exacerbate health care disparities among marginalized communities, underscoring the urgent need for ...
In regard to cultural background, health disparities between gender, race and/or ethnicity have been correlated with persistent differences in the incidence, prevalence, mortality and burden of disease. For example, native Americans have been 2.6 times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes when ...
Despite a large body of research documenting the SMI and physical comorbidities relationship and efforts to meet the complex medical needs of the population with SMI, addressing this health inequity remains at the periphery of research and healthcare practice [4]. These physical health disparities in...
Urban-rural disparities in mental health problems related to COVID-19 in China. Gen. Hosp. Psychiatry 2021, 69, 119–120. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] [PubMed] Jung, S.J.; Jun, J.Y. Mental health and psychological intervention amid COVID-19 outbreak: Perspectives from South Korea. ...
One possible explanation for health inequality among children is that countries/territories with low SDI have not received significant development assistance for health [25]. Moreover, we analyzed the health inequalities of nutritional deficiencies among children to determine the disparities in child medica...
Women have also experienced differences in healthcare delivery.10Despite reporting more severe levels, frequency, and duration of pain, reports show that women are less likely to be treated for pain; their symptoms are at times expressed as “emotional” or “psychosomatic.”11Disparities can also...