Knowledge is power, and that’s especially true regarding our health. Educating the community about healthy habits and preventive care can significantly reduce health disparities in low-income communities. Outreach programs such as community health worker programs and health education classes can help pro...
2003; Artiga & Hinton,2019; Braveman & Gottlieb,2014; Pickett & Pearl,2001; Williams & Collins,2001). Racial and economic segregation are the ultimate drivers of health disparities in communities of concentrated disadvantage (Braveman & Gottlieb,2014). Social isolation...
Results The majority of the children came from low-income homes (66.1%) and had public insurance/self-pay (95.5%). Child cotinine concentrations ranged from 0.1 to 332.0 ng/mL (geometric mean=4.8 ng/mL, 95% CI=4.1, 5.5). Poisson regression results indicated that each 1-unit increase of...
COVID-19 – International Psychology's Role in Addressing Healthcare Disparities and Ethics in Marginalized Communities and those in low- and middle-income countries; COVID-19 overburdened healthcare and mental health systems, which resulted in grave mental and physical he... F Rami,H Searight,...
Global disparities in health-systems financing: a cross-national analysis of the impact of tariff reductions and state capacity on public health expenditure in 65 low- and middle-income countries, 1996–2015. Health Place. 2020;63:102329. 86. International Trade Committee. UK-US Trade Relations....
“We confront these disparities head-on in the communities that need it the most,” said Dr. Kyu Rhee, president of the National Association of Community Health Centers. “We have a workforce that works nonstop, diligently and is resilient and diverse — that represents the people they serve...
health disparities agenda is expansive and includes research and interventions regarding quality of care provided to racial and ethnic minorities; patient/provider interaction or relationship; linguistic and/or cultural competency of providers and organizations serving minority communities; applicability, ...
The lack of meaningful engagement with displaced populations in digital health projects opens them up to the risk of instrumentalising techno-colonialism [127]. Madianou defines techno-colonialism as the embedded power disparities between humanitarian organisations and crisis-affected people encapsulated with...
disparitiesinaccesstohigh-qualitycarealsoloomlarge,highlightingthewell-knownqualityissuesinChina’sprimarycaresystemthatstandinthewayofthetransitiontomoreefficientintegrateddelivery. Meanwhile,China’sagingpopulationandrisingNCDburdendrawattentiontothedeficienciesinitselder careinfrastructure,whichremainsoutofstepwith thede...
Areas of focus can include: occupational and health disparities; impacts of work conditions on mental and physical health; effective interventions to mitigate impacts of work-related stress; potential role of workers in acquiring and transmitting infectious diseases in the event of future COVID-19 ...