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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Healthcare Disparities"”.
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Healthcare Disparities Among Ethnic Minorities in the UK
Background: Healthcare disparities among ethnic minorities in the UK represent a significant public health concern. These disparities can manifest in various ways, such as differences in access to healthcare services, the quality of care received, and health outcomes. While these ethnic minority …
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THE CLINICAL GAZE AND THE BODY IN ILLNESS: ADDRESSING HEALTHCARE DISPARITIES THROUGH AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH OF PHENOMENOLOGY AND SHARED DECISION-MAKING IN MEDICINE
… of medicine and decision-making in medicine, healthcare disparities persist for persons belonging to marginalized and vulnerable populations, including racial and ethnic minorities, women, and LGBTQ persons, amongst others. I argue that an approach integrative of shared decision-making built …
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Building Advocacy in Healthcare: The Impact of Intergroup Dialogue on the Cultural Sensibility Outcomes of Health Profession Students Using an Individual Diversity Development Framework
… suffer disproportionately from persistent health disparities such as heart disease, hypertension, cancer, asthma, obesity, and diabetes among others (Sullivan & Mittman, 2010). Several social inequalities influence the characteristics of minority health disparities including higher levels of …
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A Qualitative Study of Psychologists in Perinatal Healthcare: Perspectives on Interprofessional Collaboration and Biopsychosocial Patient Care
… become an integral part of interprofessional healthcare settings. Perinatal healthcare, or the health services provided to individuals during pregnancy, labor, and postpartum, are one of the many settings in which psychologists are now embedded. Through interviews with psychologists in this …
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Healthcare Provider and Community Adult Knowledge and Beliefs about Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health
… (SGM) youth face discrimination and health/healthcare disparities in American society (Mustanski, Birkett, Greene, Hatzenbuehler, & Newcomb, 2014a). Researchers have demonstrated connections between discriminatory beliefs (e.g., homophobia), beliefs about environmental etiology of SGM, and …
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Policy Brief On Diversity And Underutilization Of Nurse Practitioners: An Illinois Example
<p>Health Disparities among racial minorities cost the economy $309 billion annually (Kaiser Foundation, 2012). A component of healthcare disparities deals with lack of access to primary care providers and lack of diversity within the provider workforce. Nurse practitioners as a group of primary …
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<b>Designing for Healthcare Equity: Implementation of Care Coordination within a Pediatric Healthcare System - </b><b>Application of Implementation Mapping</b>
… inductive and deductive approaches to examine healthcare disparities and their impact on equitable care coordination. The research aligns with the phases of implementation mapping, encompassing a thorough needs assessment, development of performance and change objectives, and the formulation of …
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The Creation and Implementation of a Transgender Cultural Competence Nursing Education Toolkit
<p>Healthcare disparities in the transgender populations have been linked to lack of healthcare provider cultural competence (IOM, 2011; Bradford et al., Harbin et al., 2012; Eliason, Dibble, & DeJoseph, 2010; Lim, Brown, & Jones, 2013). Prior research has identified that healthcare providers …
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Intelligent Treadmill Control and Holographic Rendering for Accessible Rehabilitation
… improving patient outcomes and reducing healthcare disparities.
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Minority Physician Job Satisfaction: A Content Analysis Of Written Responses To Open-ended Survey Questions About Professional A
… and retaining minority physicians; and reducing healthcare disparities among minorities.
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Creating A Welcoming, Inclusive, And Affirming Primary Care Environment For Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Questioning, Intersex And Asexual Patients
<p>The LGBTQIA+ community has long faced disparities in healthcare which have had significant consequences including increased cancer risk factors and poorer health outcomes when compared to the cisgender, heterosexual community. Interventions are needed to increase the knowledge and cultural …
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Statistical foundations for precision medicine
… affect African Americans, amplifying healthcare disparities. These findings highlight the value of diverse population sequencing data, which can prevent variant misclassifications by identifying ancestry informative yet clinically uninformative markers. As decision-making for the …
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Climate control: Does caring really matter?
In an attempt to address healthcare disparities, nursing programs have been charged with increasing success rates of minority students to increase diversity within the profession. Despite an upsurge in enrollment numbers of minority students in nursing programs, attrition rates are higher for …
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Development and Validation of Mechatronic Systems for Image-Guided Needle Interventions and Point-of-Care Breast Cancer Screening with Ultrasound (2D and 3D) and Positron Emission Mammography
… complex interrelated risk factors and healthcare disparities contribute to breast cancer-related inequities, which restrict accessibility, impose cost constraints, and reduce inclusivity to high-quality healthcare. These limitations predominantly stem from the inadequate sensitivity and …
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Understanding the Drivers of Vaccine Hesitancy During COVID-19 in Mississippi, United States
… a state with low vaccination rates and healthcare disparities. Using a quantitative approach with secondary data, guided by the Health Belief Model and Social Ecological Model, this study explores vaccine acceptance through three interconnected papers. The first two analyze data from the …
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Individual and Geographic Predictors of Formal and Informal Care Patterns and Nursing Home Placement Risk among Rural Appalachian Elders
… home placement risk. Results indicate that disparities in sex and poverty level in an area that already suffers from healthcare disparities significantly affect the type of care an older adult receives. When formal care was utilized, it was more often added to existing informal care systems, …
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Determinants and Effectiveness of Nonpharmacologic Pain Interventions Versus Prescription Opioids
… Secondary findings from Aim 1 suggested that disparities—based on race, education, and income—impeded access to pain treatments. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s annual National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report identifies healthcare disparities in some types of primary …
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Racial Disparities in Adherence to Cardiovascular Medications among the Elderly in Medicare: Three Empirical Essays
… the relatively understudied area of racial disparities in adherence to cardiovascular medication regimens among the elderly. Black and Hispanic seniors are well documented to have lower rates of adherence to their prescribed cardiovascular medications, relative to their white counterparts. …
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Voices of perseverance: A phenomenological exploration of the life histories of female African-American registered nurses
… increasingly diverse population, and to counter healthcare disparities. Lack of diversity in nursing has been compounded by the high attrition rate of minorities in nursing education programs, particularly African Americans, the largest minority group in nursing. This qualitative study explored …
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Consumer Judgment and Decision-making in Healthcare Contexts
… individual judgment and decision making in healthcare contexts. Taken together, the findings have important implications for the effective communication of health information and for understanding the role of race in patients' choice of physicians. In Essay 1, we examine the effect of …
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