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Showing 1 to 20 of 363 for “"health disparities."”.
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Addressing Health Disparities in Refugees
… lives in new countries by providing support in health care, finance, education, infrastructure, and resettlement.</p> <p>I worked as a Health Access/Intensive Case management Intern. As a Health Access Program Intern, it was my job to ensure that refugees coming to the United States had a place …
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A capabilities approach to understanding health disparities
Health disparities are pervasive in the U.S., and three of the greatest risk factors for poor health outcomes are race, rural residence, and disability. Individuals in these groups frequently experience poor health outcomes and social disadvantages. Such disadvantages contradict ethical principles …
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Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities
… <p><strong>Increase Access to Healthcare and Decrease Health Disparities for the Underserved Population</strong></p> <p>My project aims to improve access to healthcare for the underserved population living in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District by reconnecting them to a Primary …
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Health disparities, environmental toxicants, and midlife women’s health outcomes
Health disparities and increased exposures to environmental toxicants continue to persist in some of the most vulnerable populations including women from racial and minority groups and older populations. Women from urban areas of developed countries tend to carry the heaviest burdens of both …
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The Role of Glucocorticoid Signaling in Prostate Cancer Health Disparities
… the role of glucocorticoid signaling in PCa health disparities, this dissertation used a racially diverse pre-clinical model to examine the effects of GR activation on the expression of stress oncoproteins linked to tumor aggressiveness and therapy-resistance, specifically Lens …
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Health disparities and attention to health information by disenfranchised groups
Disparities in health outcomes may be explained in part by differences in attention to health information across groups. A series of six studies examined the impression, defense, and fear-reduction motives underlying attention to health information by individuals from traditionally disenfranchised …
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Using network clustering to predict copy number variations associated with health disparities
Substantial health disparities exist between African Americans and Caucasians in the United States. Copy number variations (CNVs) are one form of human genetic variations that have been linked with complex diseases and often occur at different frequencies among African Americans and Caucasian …
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Implementation of a Wellness Program to Address Health Disparities in a Vulnerable Population
… to implement a Wellness program to address the health disparities in a vulnerable population. The population targeted was a local population that was served at a mental health facility for socioeconomically disadvantaged. The program focused on improving knowledge of cardiovascular health, …
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Health Literacy, Health Disparities and Sources of Health Information in US Older Adults
… a large scale national assessment which included health literacy. It examined the relationships between health literacy and demographic/background characteristics in older adults (age 65 and over) related to health literacy and disparities, and sources of health information. Key findings include: …
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Health disparities in infant mortality: Examining at-risk and low risk black women
… is to examine racial and socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes and explore the role of stress in at-risk and lower risk Blacks. The analyses are based on data from the Linked Birth-Infant Death files from the National Center of Health Statistics (NCHS), the Fragile Families Study …
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IMPACT OF HEALTH DISPARITIES AND BRIEF COUNSELING INTERVENTIONS ON DRINKING OUTCOMES IN HOSPITALIZED TRAUMA PATIENTS
… there is growing effort today to understand health disparities, so that healthcare can be adjusted to best provide treatment to all individuals. Considering this, the current study was a retrospective analysis on a pre-existing dataset that utilized multiple hierarchical regression in order …
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Exploring health disparities in rural regions of Virginia: The impact of health literacy and social capital
… populations are at increased risk for poorer health outcomes compared to higher income, non-minorities, and urban populations. Two key determinants that influence rural health disparities are health literacy and social capital. Health literacy can be described as an individual-level factor and …
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Psychosocial Work Environment Stressors, Health, and Health Disparities: Findings from the 2002 to 2014 General Social Surveys
… of factors threatening worker safety and health are changing as well as shifting in their distribution across occupations and worker demographics such as sex and race/ethnicity. The National Institute for Occupational Health & Safety (NIOSH) recognizes the burden job stress imposes across …
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A Multi-Method Analysis of the Role of Spatial Factors in Policy Analysis and Health Disparities Research
… space has a significant influence on diet and health disparities and on the utilization of food assistance policies targeted towards minimizing those disparities. In the specific context of food deserts, this research integrates a multi-disciplinary conceptual approach and a multi-method …
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Identifying and revealing gaps in health disparities amongst pelvic cancer patients: a grounded-theory meta-analysis approach
PURPOSE: Social determinants of health create barriers for pelvic cancer patients, and including qualitative measures in clinical research is imperative to assess all variables that contribute to rates of pelvic cancer. The aim of this study was to determine the barriers that pelvic cancer patients …
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An Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research and Intervention Strategy Applied to the Problem of Pediatric Asthma in Kansas City
This dissertation presents a multilevel health disparities research strategy using pediatric asthma in Kansas City as a case study. The first chapter introduces the problem of pediatric asthma in Kansas City and the foundational theory, methods, and concepts used to develop the structure of the …
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Health Disparities Among Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual People: The Role of Minority Stress and Psychological Sense of Community
… sexual minority individuals has often examined health disparities between lesbian/gay/bisexual (LGB) people and heterosexual people through a Minority Stress lens. Much of this research has not examined how minority stress may impact LGB people differentially and how factors such as …
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