Self-rated health of both US citizens and noncitizens is associated with state-level immigrant criminalization policies by Maria-Elena De Trinidad Young, Danielle M. Crookes, Jacqueline M. Torres

“…Evidence shows that state-level restrictive immigrant policies are associated with health disparities between noncitizens and citizens. Most research has focused on Latinos and there is limited knowledge of the relationship between restrictive policies and citizenship status among other groups, particularly Asian and Pacific Islanders (API). …”
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Protocol: Implementation and evaluation of an adolescent-mediated intervention to improve glycemic control and diabetes self-management among Samoan adults. by Nicola L Hawley, Anna C Rivara, Joshua Naseri, Kitiona Faumuina, Noelle Potoa'e-Solaita, Francine Iopu, Mata'uitafa Faiai, Eminoni Naveno, Susie Tasele, Temukisa Lefale, Ryan Lantini, Jenna C Carlson, Tracy L Rabin, Penny Semaia, Phyllis Mugadza, Rochelle K Rosen

“…Intervention success would produce a scalable program with potential for replication in other family-centered ethnic minority groups across the US who are the ideal beneficiaries of innovations to reduce chronic disease risk and eliminate health disparities.…”
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Using implementation science frameworks to translate and adapt a pregnancy app for an emerging Latino community by Anabel F. Castillo, Alexander L. Davis, Tamar Krishnamurti

“…Conclusion This work illustrates a process to adapt an mHealth pregnancy app to the needs of an emerging Latino community, by incorporating culturally sensitive Spanish language content while focusing on addressing existing health disparities.…”
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Neighborhood sociodemographic characteristics and healthfulness of store checkouts in Northern California by Samantha Marinello, Lisa M. Powell, Jennifer Falbe

“…Findings suggest that the checkout environment may be one of many contributors to diet-related health disparities. Additionally, healthy checkout policies may have the potential to increase nutrition equity by improving food environments across neighborhoods and especially in areas with lower SES and higher Black and Hispanic composition.…”
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Strategies for Establishing Policy, Environmental, and Systems-Level Interventions for Managing High Blood Pressure and High Cholesterol in Health Care Settings: A Qualitative Case... by Victoria V. Anwuri, MPH, Dyann Matson Koffman, DrPH, MPH, Sharon A. Granade, MPH

“…We taped and transcribed the interviews and used Centers for Disease Control and Prevention EZ-Text software (www.cdc.gov/hiv/software/ez-text.htm) to code, categorize, and analyze the responses.ResultsThe health care practices we studied implemented specialized lipid clinics, disease management programs, physician reminder systems, and participation in the Health Resources and Services Administration’s Bureau of Primary Care Health Disparities Collaboratives. All practices used comprehensive systems for patient care that were well-defined, measurable, and linked to desirable patient outcomes. …”
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Properties and Mechanisms of Deletions, Insertions, and Substitutions in the Evolutionary History of SARS-CoV-2 by Igor B. Rogozin, Andreu Saura, Eugenia Poliakov, Anastassia Bykova, Abiel Roche-Lima, Youri I. Pavlov, Vyacheslav Yurchenko

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Evaluation of race/ethnicity-specific survival machine learning models for Hispanic and Black patients with breast cancer by Selen Bozkurt, Sunmin Lee, Jung In Park, Jong Won Park

“…Also, the race/ethnicity-specific ML models can mitigate representation bias and contribute to addressing health disparities.…”
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279 Highlighting the Expansion and Reach of the Meharry-Vanderbilt Community Engaged Research Core (CERC) Researcher Training Series by Chioma Nneamaka Kas-Osoka, Carol Galvez, Consuelo Wilkins, Velma McBride Murry, Stephania Miller-Hughes

“…Implementing the CERC researcher training series and expanding its reach demonstrates the desire and need to alleviate health disparities through researcher and community partnerships.…”
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68 Visiting endowed chair: a new model to support Hispanics junior investigators by Carlamarie Noboa Ramos, Lourdes E. Soto de Laurido, Walter R. Frontera

“…This approach was developed to advance research to eliminate health disparities, promote multidisciplinary translational research in a Minority Institution and sustain research infrastructure and services, career, and workforce development initiatives. …”
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Assessing the reliability of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative datasets in England. by Isobel Ward, Cameron Razieh, Rose Drummond, Vahé Nafilyan, Neil Bannister, Myer Glickman

“…Implementation of techniques to account for bias and missingness were tested to propose methodology to improve reliability of ethnicity estimates from both HES and GP data, in order to ensure estimates of health disparities are as accurate as possible. Conclusion We have linked GP records to Census 2011 and HES data to provide population-based ethnicity estimates of coverage, missingness and bias between data sources, in order to improve our understanding of ethnicity data quality. …”
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Multimodal digital phenotyping of diet, physical activity, and glycemia in Hispanic/Latino adults with or at risk of type 2 diabetes by Amruta Pai, Rony Santiago, Namino Glantz, Wendy Bevier, Souptik Barua, Ashutosh Sabharwal, David Kerr

“…Digital phenotyping in populations facing a disproportionate burden of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and health disparities continues to lag compared to other populations. …”
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Evaluating a research training programme for frontline health workers in conflict-affected and fragile settings in the middle east by Hady Naal, Tracy Daou, Dayana Brome, Rania Mansour, Ghassan Abu Sittah, Christos Giannou, Enrique Steiger, Shadi Saleh

“…Abstract Background Health Research Capacity Building (HRCB) is key to improving research production among health workers in LMICs to inform related policies and reduce health disparities in conflict settings. However, few HRCB programmes are available in the MENA region, and few evaluations of HRCB globally are reported in the literature. …”
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Clinicodemographic Profile and Clinical Outcome of Children Presenting to Telemedicine Center at Institute of National Importance of India: A Prospective Observational Study by N. Yankappa, Anil Kumar, Arun Prasad, Lokesh Tiwari, Pradeep Kumar

“…The Overall Purpose of the Study. Rural health disparities stem from multiple factors, like limited healthcare access, workforce shortages, lifestyle choices, and lower socioeconomic status, leading to higher mortality and chronic diseases. …”
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Levels, trends and disparities in public-health-related indicators among reproductive-age women in Bangladesh by urban-rural and richest-poorest groups, 1993-2011. by Md Mobarak Hossain Khan, Arina Zanuzdana, Alexander Kraemer

“…BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Although Bangladesh has already achieved noticeable progress in the field of development and health, disparities in public health indicators for several markers are still reported. …”
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Factors associated with health behaviors in preventing non-communicable diseases among older adults living alone in poverty in Japan by Yuki Imamatsu, Etsuko Tadaka

“…IntroductionOlder adults who live alone in poverty are highly susceptible to non-communicable diseases and other adverse conditions owing to health disparities resulting from social structures. However, the factors associated with health behavior to prevent non-communicable diseases in this population are rarely explored. …”
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Social Determinants of Health and Cerebral Small Vessel Disease: Is Epigenetics a Key Mediator? by Livia Parodi, Ernst Mayerhofer, Kaavya Narasimhalu, Nirupama Yechoor, Mary E. Comeau, Jonathan Rosand, Carl D. Langefeld, Christopher D. Anderson

“…Here, we provide a review of the most recent advances in the epigenetics of cerebral small vessel disease risk factors and social determinants of health and call for research efforts combining insights from both fields to reach a deeper understanding of the causal pathways, ultimately facilitating discovery of new treatment targets for a disease whose burden is magnified by existing health disparities.…”
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Comparative effectiveness of pelvic floor muscle training, mirabegron, and trospium among older women with urgency urinary incontinence and high fall risk: a feasibility randomized... by Steve R. Fisher, Alejandro Villasante-Tezanos, Lindsay M. Allen, Monique R. Pappadis, Gokhan Kilic

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Modifiers of and Disparities in Palliative and Supportive Care Timing and Utilization among Neurosurgical Patients with Malignant Central Nervous System Tumors by Michael Chuwei Jin, Gary Hsin, John Ratliff, Reena Thomas, Corinna Clio Zygourakis, Gordon Li, Adela Wu

“…We analyzed a cohort of privately insured patients with malignant brain or spinal tumors derived from the Optum Clinformatics Datamart Database to investigate health disparities in access to and utilization of supportive services. …”
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Genetic and environmental influence on alcohol intent and alcohol sips among U.S. children-Effects across sex, race, and ethnicity. by Troy Puga, Yadi Liu, Peng Xiao, Ran Dai, Hongying Daisy Dai

“…<h4>Conclusion</h4>Sex and racial/ethnic disparities in genetic and environmental risk factors for susceptibility to alcohol initiation can lead to significant health disparities. Certain populations may be at greater risk for alcohol use due to their genetic and ecological factors at an early age.…”
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A consequence of mass incarceration: county-level association between jail incarceration rates and poor mental health days by Ashley Hickson, Ritika Purbey, Lorraine Dean, Joseph J. Gallo, Roland J. Thorpe, Keshia Pollack Porter, Aruna Chandran

“…This study aimed to quantify a consequence of mass incarceration which may adversely affect the population’s health and widen health disparities. Methods Using data from the Vera Institute’s Incarceration Trends 2.2 and the Robert Wood Johnson County Health Rankings, the association between county-level (n = 2823) counts of jail incarceration and reported number of poor mental health days within the past 30 days in the United States in 2018 was examined. …”
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