Diversification of COVID-19 Testing Resources to Decrease Racial/Ethnic Disparities: Comparative Use of Adaptive Approaches to Community Testing Across an Integrated Healthcare Sys... by Jennifer S. Priem, Lisa M. Krinner, S. Tyler Constantine, Lewis McCurdy

“…Racial and ethnic health disparities exist related to testing utilization. …”
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Midwives’ experience of telehealth and remote care: a systematic mixed methods review by Linda S Franck, Kimberly Baltzell, Bethany N Golden, Shaimaa Elrefaay, Monica R McLemore, Amy Alspaugh

“…Introduction Increasing the midwifery workforce has been identified as an evidence-based approach to decrease maternal mortality and reproductive health disparities worldwide. Concurrently, the profession of midwifery, as with all healthcare professions, has undergone a significant shift in practice with acceleration of telehealth use to expand access. …”
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Evaluating outcomes of a three-year case management program for mothers with prenatal substance use according to race/ethnicity, Washington State, 2006–2017 by Susan A. Stoner, J. Christopher Graham, Therese M. Grant

“…Abstract Background Well-designed public health interventions ideally aspire to reduce health disparities between racial and ethnic groups. Yet, there remains virtually no research examining racial/ethnic disparities in interventions for marginalized perinatal populations with substance use disorders (SUD). …”
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3082 Cardiovascular Health Promotion Among African-Americans: Community Participatory Approach to Design an Innovative Mobile-Health Intervention by LaPrincess Brewer, Sharonne Hayes, Amber Caron, Christina Smith, Karen Schaepe, Sarah Jenkins, Jacqueline Johnson, Clarence Jones, Carmen Radecki Breitkopf, Lisa Cooper, Christi Patten

“…DISCUSSION/SIGNIFICANCE OF IMPACT: This study illustrates the process of using formative and CBPR approaches to design a culturally relevant, mHealth lifestyle intervention to address CV health disparities within the AA community. Given the positive perceptions of the app, our study supports the use of an iterative development process by others interested in implementing an mHealth lifestyle intervention for racial/ethnic minority communities.…”
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Family contexts and sleep during adolescence by Kammi K. Schmeer, Jacob Tarrence, Christopher R. Browning, Catherine A. Calder, Jodi L. Ford, Bethany Boettner

“…This suggests family social and economic contexts are associated with an under-researched aspect of adolescent sleep, nightly variation, and may contribute to adolescent sleep problems with implications for their health and health disparities.…”
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An Urban Population Health Observatory for Disease Causal Pathway Analysis and Decision Support: Underlying Explainable Artificial Intelligence Model by Whitney S Brakefield, Nariman Ammar, Arash Shaban-Nejad

“…ConclusionsThe application of UPHO could help reduce health disparities and improve urban population health. …”
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EMBRACE: One Small Story in Lupus—One Giant Challenge in Clinical Trials by Saira Z. Sheikh, Tessa R. Englund, Susan W. Burriss, Jonca Bull, Anya Harry, James G. Groark, Ashley M. Hall, Michelle Miller, David A. Roth

“…It also provides suggestions for overcoming health disparities, highlighting strategies for conducting well‐designed clinical trials to overcome systematic barriers to diversity in recruitment, with a focus on enacting long‐term support to ensure equity in the process, products, and benefits from drug development and clinical trials.…”
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White paper from a CTSA workshop series on special and underserved populations: Enhancing investigator readiness to conduct research involving LGBT populations by Alicia K. Matthews, Kevin Rak, Emily Anderson, Wendy Bostwick, Jesus Ramirez-Valles, Raymond A. Ruiz, Kathryn Macapagal, Karriem S. Watson, Rohan D. Jeremiah, Amparo Castillo, Wendy Choure

“…Despite the significant health disparities experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) populations, few investigators affiliated with the National Institutes of Health-funded Clinical and Translational Science Award Programs are conducting research related to this underserved population. …”
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Income disparities in mental health: investigating the role of food insecurity by disability status by Meredith R Williams, D Phuong Do

“…Improving food security may reduce mental health disparities. …”
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Latent class analysis of the Epidemic‐Pandemic Impacts Inventory on mental health outcomes in Siyan Clinical patients by Anish Shah, Olivia Arstein‐Kerslake, Michele Darling, Tiffany Morgan, Aubree Vance Torea, Helen Laines, Bhargav Joshi, Karina Pena, James Young

“…This study aimed to determine how mental health patients experienced the COVID‐19 pandemic to characterize mental health disparities and identify underlying factors. Methods We used the Epidemic‐Pandemic Impacts Inventory (EPII) and latent class analysis to determine the impacts of epidemics and pandemics across several life domains in 245 survey respondents, all of whom were mental health patients at Siyan Clinical. …”
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Disability doesn’t discriminate: health inequities at the intersection of race and disability by Brooke Dorsey Holliman, Brooke Dorsey Holliman, Michelle Stransky, Nathalie Dieujuste, Nathalie Dieujuste, Megan Morris, Megan Morris

“…Among non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic adults, nearly 30% of people with disabilities forewent services due to cost compared to persons without disabilities.ConclusionsBlack and Hispanic adults with disabilities experience greater disparities in access to healthcare than Black and Hispanic adults without disabilities. Therefore, health disparities experienced by racial and ethnic minorities living with disabilities is likely influenced by the dual systemic factors of racism and ableism.…”
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286 Disparities in the Management of Low-Risk Febrile Infants: An Interim Feasibility Report by Colleen K Gutman, Paul Aronson, K. Casey Lion, Carla Fisher, Mary Patterson, Rosemarie Fernandez

“…OBJECTIVES/GOALS: Well-appearing febrile infants are a model for exploring communication, bias, and health disparities in the pediatric emergency department (ED). …”
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Health facility assessments of cervical cancer prevention, early diagnosis, and treatment services in Gulu, Uganda by Tana Chongsuwat, Aaliyah O. Ibrahim, Ann E. Evensen, James H. Conway, Margaret Zwick, William Oloya

“…The highest burden of disease is in low-to-middle income countries (LMICs), responsible for 90% of the 311,000 cervical cancer deaths in 2018. This growing health disparity is due to the lack of quality screening and treatment programs, low human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination rates, and high human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) co-infection rates. …”
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The effect of social pension on health-related quality of life of the rural older people: a panel study from China by Siyuan Liu, Hong He, Hanzhi Gao

“…Conclusions The NRSP reduced health disparities and had long-term benefits on the physical and mental health of the rural older people. …”
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Mediating and Moderating Effects of Internet Use on Urban-Rural Disparities in Health Among Older Adults: Nationally Representative Cross-Sectional Survey in China by Jing Liu, Junwei Peng, Minyan Chen, Tao Zhang

“…ObjectiveThis study aimed to examine the mediation and moderation of health disparities between urban and rural older adults through internet use. …”
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The Impact of Nonrandom Missingness in Surveillance Data for Population-Level Summaries: Simulation Study by Paul Samuel Weiss, Lance Allyn Waller

“…Policy decisions based on such potentially biased estimates could be devastating in terms of community disengagement and health disparities. Alternative approaches to analysis that move away from broad generalization of a mismeasured population at risk are necessary to identify the marginalized groups, where overall response may be very different from those observed in measured respondents.…”
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Impact of structural racism on inclusion and diversity in precision oncology: A scoping and critical review of the literature by Lester D. Geneviève, Bernice S. Elger, Tenzin Wangmo

“…Future interventions aimed at reducing health disparities should focus predominantly on barriers associated with structural and institutional racism, which should then have ripple effects on other forms of racism. …”
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COVID-19 Vaccination Intention and Factors Associated with Hesitance and Resistance in the Deep South: Montgomery, Alabama by Cicily A. Gray, Grace Lesser, Yuqi Guo, Swapn Shah, Shauntice Allen, Larrell L. Wilkinson, Omar T. Sims

“…Factors positively associated with COVID-19 vaccine hesitance and resistance in the study’s geographical area are worrisome, especially given the high burden of chronic diseases and health disparities that exist in both Montgomery and the Deep South. …”
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Series: Public engagement with research. Part 2: GPs and primary care researchers working inclusively with minoritised communities in health research to help address inequalities by Yumna Masood, Anica Alvarez Nishio, Bella Starling, Shoba Dawson, Jon Salsberg, Steven Blackburn, Esther van Vliet, Carina A.C.M Pittens

“…AbstractPublic engagement in health research is vital for addressing health disparities and promoting inclusivity among minoritised communities who often face barriers to accessing healthcare. …”
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Where Have They Gone? Recruiting and Retaining Older Rural Research Participants by Elizabeth Grace Nichols, Jean Shreffler-Grant, Clarann Weinert SC

“…Issue: Rural-dwelling elderly have been shown to suffer from health disparities when compared to the general population. …”
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