Among public health experts around the world, there has been constant debate regarding whether health disparities widen or narrow when overall mortality rates decline. Some research indicates that as overall health improves, the disparities in health between rich and poor and between different ethnic ...
(HealthDay)—Research on health disparities in the United States, the policy implications of these disparities, and suggestions for improvement of disparities are discussed in "Health Policy Brief: Health Gaps," published Aug. 15 inHealth Affairs. Catherine Dower, J.D., from the University of Ca...
A retrospective cohort study characterizing presenting disease-related features, treatment, and outcomes of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) reinforces the existence of racial/ethnic and socioeconomic health care disparities in the US population. The research, presented recently by Rishi P. Si...
Disparities in health service use and access to service remain critical issues for improving minority health. Almost no studies report the health service use of multiracial young adults. Most studies on multiracial groups are cross-sectional and thus focus on a single time point, so it is difficul...
teen pregnancy and birth rates are about 33% lower now than fifteen years ago, the birth rate for 15-19 year old females rose 3% between 2005 and 2006, from 40.5 to 41.9 per 1,000 women in this age group the first increase since 1991. Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist in...
Socioeconomic disparities in health change in a longitudinal study of US adults: the role of... Investigates the hypothesis that socioeconomic differences in health status change can largely be explained by the higher prevalence of individual health-r... Lantz,Paula,M.,... - 《Social Science ...
Monica Keith, assistant professor of Anthropology, recently published insights into the complex factors contributing to maternal hypertension and health disparities in a paper titled, "Social Determinant Pathways to Hypertensive Disorders of Pregnancy Am
The findings show that adults in states that did not expand Medicaid are at significantly higher risk of being overweight or obese, but these disparities are in part explained by higher rates of demographic and socioeconomic disadvantage in non-expansion states. To the author’s knowledge, this ...
in evidence-based practice and education regarding structural factors contributing to health disparities in the justice-involved population [4]. Given this interdependence, medical coursework should provide both didactic training and exposure to the specific health needs of this population as part of a ...
MD, vice president health disparities, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health, told us, “Interventions to offset disparities cannot be imposed on a population. Interventions should instead be designed collaboratively in direct consultation with representatives of the population experiencing health inequity....