Health Disparities Definition Despite the noble intentions of many past and present-day leaders, the United States is far from ''a more perfect union.'' Inequality, poverty, and pollution have become prominent headlines among the nation's news outlets and other channels of communication. Independent...
whole communities, and society at large. Health disparities are often self-perpetuating. Parents too sick to work, for example, can become low-income. Unemployed, low-income individuals are less likely to have access to health insurance. If they’re unable to afford health ...
To understand the root causes of oral health disparities and inequities, it is necessary to recognize the role of the social determinants of health. The World Health Organization (WHO)’s definition of the social determinants of health is “…the conditions in which people are born, grow, work...
Lower health literacy has been linked to many health complications such as diabetes, poor adherence, and health disparities in various populations, as well as to death in ESRD patients. Lower health literacy is also correlated with poorer QOL. Health literacy may be an important factor in the ...
Disparities in air pollution attributable mortality in the US population by race/ethnicity and sociodemographic factors Article01 July 2024 Assessing long-term effects of gaseous air pollution exposure on mortality in the United States using a variant of difference-in-differences analysis ...
Health disparities between genderqueer, transgender, and cisgender individuals: an extension of minority stress theory. J Couns Psychol. 2019;66:385–95. https://doi.org/10.1037/cou0000339. Article PubMed Google Scholar Truszczynski N, Singh AA, Hansen N. The discrimination Experiences and ...
Addressing Health Disparities Will Take a Village While pharmaceutical manufacturers need to continue engaging with the broader healthcare system to help address healthcare disparities in the long term, there is action they can take now. Blog May 10, 2022 ICER Policy Proposals for Orphan Drug Pric...
Implementing the Institute of Medicine definition of disparities: an application to mental health care. Health Serv Res. 2006;41:1979-2005.Implementing the Institute of Medicine definition of disparities: an application to mental health care. TG McGuire,M Alegria,BL Cook,KB Wells,AM Zaslavsky. ...
Challenges of health measurement in studies of health disparities Sarah A.Burgard,Patricia V.Chen, inSocial Science & Medicine, 2014 5.1Description of the problem and implications Because of the ease and affordability of collection, its ability to predict mortality (DeSalvo et al., 2005;Idler and...
Measuring disparities in health: Methods and indicators. In Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action; Evans, T., Whitehead, M., Diderichsen, F., Bhuiya, A., Wirth, M., Eds.; Oxford University Press: New York, NY, USA, 2001. [Google Scholar] Regidor, E. Measures of ...