Expanding the Obesity Research Paradigm to Reach African American Communities by Shiriki K. Kumanyika, PhD, MPH, Melicia C. Whitt-Glover, PhD, Tiffany L. Gary, PhD, T. Elaine Prewitt, DrPH, Angela M. Odoms-Young, PhD, Joanne Banks-Wallace, RN, PhD, Bettina M. Beech, DrPH, MPH, Chanita Hughes Halbert, PhD, Njeri Karanja, PhD, Kristie J. Lancaster, PhD, RD, Carmen D. Samuel-Hodge, PhD

“…This expanded paradigm, for which development is ongoing, poses new challenges for researchers who focus on obesity and obesity-related health disparities but also promises discovery of new directions that can lead to new solutions.…”
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The Primary Care Transformation Executive Fellowship to Develop Community Health Center Leaders by Lewis JH, Appikatla S, Anderson E, Glaser K, Whisenant EB

“…Still Circle, Mesa, AZ, 85206, USA, Tel +1 660 626 2121, Fax +1 480 389 3661, Email JHLewis@atsu.eduIntroduction: Although many primary care providers from community health centers recognize health disparities and work to transform healthcare, skill gaps and limited support may hinder their ability to be change agents. …”
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Association Between Health-Related Beliefs and Oral Health Behaviors Among Uninsured Primary Care Patients by Akiko Kamimura, Bethany Gull, Shannon Weaver, Lindsey Wright, Jeanie Ashby, Lea E. Erickson

“…The implementation and evaluation of the integrated health programs, which include primary care and oral health care together, would be beneficial to reduce oral health disparities.…”
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Locking the Revolving Door: Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease by Gladys Velarde, Katia Bravo‐Jaimes, Eric J. Brandt, Daniel Wang, Paul Douglass, Luis R. Castellanos, Fatima Rodriguez, Latha Palaniappan, Uzoma Ibebuogu, Rachel Bond, Keith Ferdinand, Gina Lundberg, Ritu Thamman, Krishnaswami Vijayaraghavan, Karol Watson

“…Social determinants are a primary cause of health disparities, and these include factors such as structural and overt racism. …”
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An Assessment of the Health Literacy among Deaf People in Kapiri Mposhi District of Zambia by Brian Chanda Chiluba, Mutale Chibo, Beatrice Mwaba Chiluba, Beverly Thole

“…It is therefore important to bear in mind that many Deaf people, especially in low and middle-income countries, are suffering from much greater health disparities. Deaf people rely on a visual language that does not have a written form. …”
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165 Colorado Immersion Training: Ten years of lessons learned and accomplishments by Kaylee Rivera Gordon, Montelle Taméz, Mary Fisher, Donald E. Nease

“…METHODS/STUDY POPULATION: CIT is a six-month program that includes didactic sessions, group readings and reflections and a one week immersion experience in a Colorado community experiencing health disparities. The Evaluation Center - University of Colorado Denver provides external evaluation services to the Colorado Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CCTSI). …”
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Individuality and ethnicity eclipse a short-term dietary intervention in shaping microbiomes and viromes. by Junhui Li, Robert H George Markowitz, Andrew W Brooks, Elizabeth K Mallott, Brittany A Leigh, Timothy Olszewski, Hamid Zare, Minoo Bagheri, Holly M Smith, Katie A Friese, Ismail Habibi, William M Lawrence, Charlie L Rost, Ákos Lédeczi, Angela M Eeds, Jane F Ferguson, Heidi J Silver, Seth R Bordenstein

“…Many diseases linked with ethnic health disparities associate with changes in microbial communities in the United States, but the causes and persistence of ethnicity-associated microbiome variation are not understood. …”
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Telemedicine Experience for PrEP Care among PrEP-Eligible Women and Their Primary Care Providers during the First Year of the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States by Chen Zhang, Kevin Fiscella, Shelby Przybylek, Wonkyung Chang, Yu Liu

“…Participants expressed concerns that may further entrench these long-existing health disparities in healthcare. Proactive efforts from policymakers, health professionals, researchers, and stakeholders are urgently required to tackle identified barriers and to pave the way for the new infrastructure that ensures health equity in society.…”
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Multiple Discrimination and Its Consequences for the Mental Health of Ethnic Minorities by M. Schouler-Ocak, J. Moran

“…A growing body of literature has recognized health disparities and has investigated the relationship between discrimination and poor health outcomes. …”
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Digital HPV education to increase vaccine uptake among low income women by Jennifer R. Warren, Suellen Hopfer, Emilia J. Fields, Sahana Natarajan, Rhonda Belue, Francis X. McKee, Michael Hecht, Joel P. Lebed

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African American Males Have More Distress During Cancer Treatment Than White Males by Stephanie Kjelstrom, Charis Wynn, Sharon Larson

“…African American (AA) males have a higher incidence and mortality rate for some cancers than other races and sexes, which could be associated with distress during treatment, medical mistrust, and health disparities. We hypothesize distress in AA males during treatment is higher than in other races and sexes. …”
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Hostility, anger, and cardiovascular mortality among blacks and whites by Shervin Assari

“…Black - White difference in the associations of hostility and anger with cardiovascular mortality suggest these factors may have some role in shaping health disparities across racial groups.…”
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The environmental neighborhoods of cities and their spatial extent by M Llaguno-Munitxa, E Bou-Zeid

“…The quantification of this scale of influence therefore enables more effective and localized policies and interventions to improve urban environmental quality and reduce urban health disparities. More broadly, the findings indicate that, in a wide range of environmental and ecological applications where surface heterogeneity is a primary driver, the scale of analysis is not an external parameter to be chosen, but rather an internal parameter dictated by the problem physics.…”
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Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Hospital-Based Care Among Dual Eligibles Who Use Health Centers

“…If health centers are to play a more central role in eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities, these differences across health centers must be understood and addressed.…”
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Navigating health information chaos: Perspectives from Persian-speaking immigrants in Finland by Sara Arzideh, Hamed Ahmadinia

“…Such initiatives can bridge the gap between the health information needs of immigrants and the available health information, ultimately reducing health disparities and improving health outcomes. This study represents one of the pioneering works exploring the information environment during a pandemic and the strategies adopted by the Persian-speaking minority to address the dissemination of false information during a health crisis. …”
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Interracial unions and sleep duration among heterosexual American adults by Angelica Lopez, Connor Sheehan, Jenjira Yahirun

“…Moreover, sleep among individuals in interracial relationships may be negatively impacted by the social construction of race/ethnicity that drive health disparities and that point to the importance of factors such as racism, stress and social adversity that represent the unique lived reality of interracial couples in the U.S. …”
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Racial disparities and prevalence of cardiovascular disease risk factors, cardiometabolic risk factors, and cardiovascular health metrics among US adults: NHANES 2011–2018 by Stephanie M. Lopez-Neyman, Kathleen Davis, Namvar Zohoori, K. Shane Broughton, Carolyn E. Moore, Derek Miketinas

“…Reducing further health disparities and persisting differences among racial and ethnic groups is vital to achieving the American Heart Association vision of all people having ideal cardiovascular health, living healthier and longer.…”
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Developing a System Dynamic Model for Product Life Cycle Management of Generic Pharmaceutical Products: Its Relation with Open Innovation by Atefeh Mousavi, Mehdi Mohammadzadeh, Hossein Zare

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Significance of HbA1c and its measurement in the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus: US experience by Juarez DT, Demaris KM, Goo R, Mnatzaganian CL, Wong Smith H

“…Because this bias differs by racial group, prevalence and resulting estimates of health disparities based on HbA1c screening differ from those based on other methods of diagnosis. …”
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Mechanistic update of Trisenox in blood cancer by Ananta, Swati Banerjee, Paul B. Tchounwou, Sanjay Kumar

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