When I was an apartment manager I had seniors living there who could no longer afford the rising rents. They had to leave the apartment they loved and look for senior low-income housing. They applied for help at their local HUD office or county aging departments. We hated to see them go...
Women in low-income areas of the U.S. face a stark rise in cervical cancer incidence and mortality, according to a new study led by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. The results, published in theInternational Journal of Cancer, demonstrate that the incidence ...
The new study finds widely varying levels of telemedicine literacy by county across the United States. Credit:Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Demographic factors including low income and living in a rural area are linked to low telemedicine literacy—which may limit access to plastic surgeons and o...
Association of Major Disease Outbreaks With Adolescent and Youth Mental Health in Low- and Middle- Income Countries: A Systematic Scoping Review. JAMA Psychiatry. 2022 Oct 12. doi: 10.1001/jamapsychiatry.2022.3109.2. Santomauro DF, Mantilla Herrera AM, Shadid J, et al. Global prevalence and ...
For example, already half of the world’s population live in cities, and an estimated two-thirds of people will be living in urban settlements by 2050, with the most rapid rates of urbanisation occurring in low-to-middle-income countries (LMICs) [7]. At the same time, climate change, ...
More than one in six American workers also act as caregivers: low-income, less-educated Americans more likely to be caregivers. Gallup. Wellbeing. 2011. https://news.gallup.com/poll/148640/one-six-american-workers-act-caregivers.aspx. Accessed 21 July 2024. Download references...
Two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, with the most rapid urbanisation in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). However, there is limited guidance about what constitutes a liveable city from a LMIC perspective, with most of the evidence relating to high-...
“It’s an incredibly unique program,” senior investigator Sanjay Rajagopalan, MD (University Hospitals/Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH), told TCTMD. “It’s one of the only free programs in the world. We strongly felt that living in a community like Cle...
in scope, intensity and setting for delivery (reflected in the inclusion criteria for this synthesis). The aim of all the interventions is to improve health and wellbeing outcomes for people living with CPLBP. However, it is important to explore how this broad variation in interventions is ...
Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a clustering of cardiovascular risk factors, which is rising in the low and middle income countries (LMICs). There are various studies with inconsistent findings that are inconclusive for policy makers and program planners. T