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https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497781/loneliness-in-midlife-historical-increases-and-elevated-levels-in-the-united-states-compared-with-europe
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Frank J Infurna, Nutifafa E Y Dey, Tita Gonzalez Avilés, Kevin J Grimm, Margie E Lachman, Denis Gerstorf
Loneliness is gaining attention globally as a public health issue because elevated loneliness increases one's risk for depression, compromised immunity, chronic illness, and mortality. Our objective is to zoom into how loneliness has historically evolved through midlife and investigate whether elevations in loneliness are confined to the United States or are similarly transpiring across peer European nations. We use harmonized data on loneliness from nationally representative longitudinal panel surveys from the United States and 13 European nations to directly quantify similarities and differences in historical change of midlife loneliness trajectories...
March 18, 2024: American Psychologist
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497431/childhood-attention-deficit-hyperactivity-disorder-socioeconomic-inequalities-in-symptoms-impact-diagnosis-and-medication
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Pearce, Paul Henery, S Vittal Katikireddi, Ruth Dundas, Alastair H Leyland, Dasha Nicholls, Russell M Viner, Lynda Fenton, Steven Hope
BACKGROUND: Children from disadvantaged backgrounds are at greater risk of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)-related symptoms, being diagnosed with ADHD, and being prescribed ADHD medications. We aimed to examine how inequalities manifest across the 'patient journey', from perceptions of impacts of ADHD symptoms on daily life, to the propensity to seek and receive a diagnosis and treatment. METHODS: We investigated four 'stages': (1) symptoms, (2) caregiver perception of impact, (3) diagnosis and (4) medication, in two data sets: UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS, analytic n ~ 9,000), with relevant (parent-reported) information on all four stages (until 14 years); and a population-wide 'administrative cohort', which includes symptoms (child health checks) and prescriptions (dispensing records), born in Scotland, 2010-2012 (analytic n ~ 100,000), until ~6 years...
March 18, 2024: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497273/community-based-participatory-research-as-a-promising-practice-for-addressing-vaccine-hesitancy-rebuilding-trust-and-addressing-health-disparities-among-racial-and-ethnic-minority-communities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Sophie E O'Bryan, Fatima Muñoz, David Smith, Adriana Bearse, Blanca Melendrez, Biren Kamdar, Cynthia James-Price, Daniel Ramirez, Argentina E Servin
The COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately affected racial and ethnic minority communities across the United States (U.S.). Despite the disproportionate burden of COVID-19 faced by communities of color, Black and Hispanic communities are less likely to be fully vaccinated than White non-Hispanic Persons. Health inequity and vaccine hesitancy are complex phenomena that require multilevel responses tailored to the unique needs of each community, a process that inherently necessitates a high level of community engagement in order to develop the most effective health interventions...
December 31, 2024: Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38497238/characteristics-of-older-unpaid-carers-in-england-a-study-of-social-patterning-from-the-english-longitudinal-study-of-ageing
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Laurie E Davies, Gemma F Spiers, David R Sinclair, Andrew Kingston, Barbara Hanratty
BACKGROUND: A growing number of older people provide unpaid care, but contemporary research evidence on this group is limited. AIM: This study aims to describe the characteristics of older people who provide unpaid care and how these vary by socioeconomic position. METHODS: Using recent information from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA wave 9, 2019), we analysed cross-sectional data on 1,282 unpaid carers aged ≥50. Data on sociodemographics, health, social wellbeing, care intensity and caregiver-recipient relationships were extracted...
March 1, 2024: Age and Ageing
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38495896/private-health-insurance-in-the-united-states-and-sweden-a-comparative-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Udit Dave, Emma G Lewis, Jenilkumar H Patel, Nikhil Godbole
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: The United States of America and Sweden both contain a public and private component to their healthcare systems. While both countries spend a similar amount per capita on public healthcare expenditures, the United States spends significantly more in the private healthcare sector. Sweden has a social democratic model of health care, and given its identity as a welfare state, private health insurance providers have a small and nuanced role. METHODS: This paper was completed after searches were queried for "Sweden," "United States," and variants of the words "insurance," "public," "private," "Medicare," "Medicaid," "public," and "costs...
March 2024: Health Science Reports
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38495313/access-to-general-health-care-among-people-with-disabilities-in-latin-america-and-the-caribbean-a-systematic-review-of-quantitative-research
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REVIEW
Danae Rodríguez Gatta, Sara Rotenberg, Kasim Allel, Veronika Reichenberger, Lena Morgon Banks, Hannah Kuper
In Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), there are 85 million people with disabilities (PwD). They often experience barriers accessing healthcare and die, on average, 10-20 years earlier than those without disabilities. This study aimed to systematically review the quantitative literature on access to general healthcare among PwD, compared to those without disabilities, in LAC. A systematic review and narrative synthesis was conducted. We searched in EMBASE, MEDLINE, LILACS, MedCarib, PsycINFO, SciELO, CINAHL, and Web of Science...
April 2024: Lancet Reg Health Am
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38494985/greater-need-but-reduced-access-a-population-study-of-planned-and-elective-surgery-rates-in-adult-mental-health-service-users
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
G Sara, J Hamer, P Gould, J Curtis, P Ramanuj, T A O'Brien, P Burgess
AIMS: Timely access to surgery is an essential part of healthcare. People living with mental health (MH) conditions may have higher rates of chronic illness requiring surgical care but also face barriers to care. There is limited evidence about whether unequal surgical access contributes to health inequalities in this group. METHODS: We examined 1.22 million surgical procedures in public and private hospitals in New South Wales (NSW), Australia, in 2019. In a cross-sectional study of 76,320 MH service users aged 18 and over, surgical procedure rates per 1,000 population were compared to rates for 6...
March 18, 2024: Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38494879/antenatal-care-inequalities-in-south-korea-an-analysis-of-health-insurance-claims-data-2013-2022-in-a-high-resource-high-use-country
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Saerom Kim, Chanki Kim, Jin-Hwan Kim
OBJECTIVE: This aim of the present study was to explore inequalities in antenatal care (ANC) in South Korea. Based on the guidelines of the WHO, we categorized less than eight visits to an obstetrical facility as insufficient ANC. We examined ANC inequalities associated with age, disability, nationality, income, and geographic accessibility. METHODS: We extracted delivery event claimed from 2013 to 2022 from the National Health Insurance Service database. By tracing back 270 days from the delivery date, we counted the number of antenatal visits for each childbirth and calculated the proportion of women with insufficient ANC and assessed both absolute and relative inequalities for each population group...
March 17, 2024: International Journal of Gynaecology and Obstetrics
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38494650/recapturing-communicative-erasure-black-women-farmers-lived-experience-political-voice-and-cultural-knowledge-as-critical-health-communication-praxis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Andrew Carter, Garrett Broad, Vanessa Reeves
In this paper, we conduct a case study analysis of the National Women in Agriculture Association (NWIAA), an international, Black women-led farm assistance organization founded in 2008 and based in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Drawing on the Culture-Centered Approach (CCA) and grounded in interviews and observational fieldwork, we center the perspectives of NWIAA chapter leaders ( n  = 16) to examine how they describe motivations for farming, challenge power inequities, engage with intersectional barriers, and develop locally situated solutions across agricultural and community health contexts...
March 17, 2024: Health Communication
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38494196/narrative-matters-gustav-mahler-music-as-a-source-of-meaning-and-healing-in-the-face-of-adversity-and-inequality
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
David Bentley, Glòria Durà Vilà
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 17, 2024: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493680/using-simulation-modelling-to-transform-hospital-planning-and-management-to-address-health-inequalities
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Eren Demir, Usame Yakutcan, Stephen Page
Health inequalities are a perennial concern for policymakers and in service delivery to ensure fair and equitable access and outcomes. As health inequalities are socially influenced by employment, income, and education, this impacts healthcare services among socio-economically disadvantaged groups, making it a pertinent area for investigation in seeking to promote equitable access. Researchers widely acknowledge that health equity is a multi-faceted problem requiring approaches to understand the complexity and interconnections in hospital planning as a precursor to healthcare delivery...
March 14, 2024: Social Science & Medicine
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493303/barriers-to-adopting-digital-contact-tracing-for-covid-19-experiences-in-new-zealand
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Phoebe Elers, Tepora Emery, Sarah Derrett, Tim Chambers
BACKGROUND: Digital contact tracing (DCT) was a central component of the global response to containing COVID-19. Research has raised concerns that DCT could exacerbate inequities, yet the experiences of diverse communities at greater risk from COVID-19 are typically underrepresented. METHODS: The present study aimed to understand the perceived barriers to the adoption of the app amongst Māori, Pasifika, and disabled people. Focus groups and interviews were undertaken with Māori, Pasifika, and disability sector stakeholders and community participants...
April 2024: Health Expectations: An International Journal of Public Participation in Health Care and Health Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493294/stroke-virtual-rehabilitation-in-rural-communities-exploring-the-perceptions-of-stroke-survivors-caregivers-clinicians-and-health-administrators
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Jessica Irish, Annu Sharma, Delphine Labbe, Sacha Arsenault, Katie White, Brodie M Sakakibara
PURPOSE: Rural-dwelling stroke survivors have unmet rehabilitation needs after returning to community-living. Virtual rehabilitation, defined as the use of technology to provide rehabilitation services from a distance, could be a viable and timely solution to address this need, especially within the COVID-19 pandemic context. There is still a minimal understanding of virtual rehabilitation delivery within rural contexts. This study sought to explore the perceptions of rural stakeholders about virtual stroke rehabilitation...
March 16, 2024: Disability and Rehabilitation
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38493075/pregnancy-care-utilization-experiences-and-outcomes-among-undocumented-immigrants-in-the-united-states-a-scoping-review
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Rose L Molina, Alexandra Beecroft, Yessamin Pazos Herencia, Maria Bazan, Carrie Wade, Amanda DiMeo, Jeffrey Sprankle, Margaret M Sullivan
BACKGROUND: Undocumented immigrants face many barriers in accessing pregnancy care, including language differences, implicit and explicit bias, limited or no insurance coverage, and fear about accessing services. With the national spotlight on maternal health inequities, the current literature on undocumented immigrants during pregnancy requires synthesis. OBJECTIVE: We aimed to describe the literature on pregnancy care utilization, experiences, and outcomes of undocumented individuals in the United States...
March 15, 2024: Women's Health Issues: Official Publication of the Jacobs Institute of Women's Health
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38492759/association-between-racial-discrimination-and-ctra-expression-following-trauma-exposure-provides-further-context-for-health-inequities-and-the-weathering-hypothesis
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Brooke G McKenna, Patricia A Brennan
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
March 14, 2024: Brain, Behavior, and Immunity
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38492742/-climate-and-environmental-crisis-impacts-on-women-s-health-what-specificities-what-can-be-done
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Catherine Azoulay
OBJECTIVE: Pollution is one of the world's largest risk factors for disease and premature death. In Europe, it is responsible for approximately 20% of mortality. Chemicals exposure can occur by inhalation, ingestion or skin contact and begins in utero. Pollutants can be divided into three categories: endocrine disruptors (pesticides, PFAS, plastics, dioxins, etc.), heavy metals (cadmium, mercury and lead...) and nanomaterials. Climate change and air pollution are other main health threats...
March 14, 2024: Gynecologie, Obstetrique, Fertilite & Senologie
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38492649/patterns-of-gender-inequality-perception-and-depressive-symptoms-among-chinese-adults-the-mediating-role-of-marital-life-satisfaction
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Ting Wang, Qiaosheng Li, Shouchuang Zhang, Haoran Liu, Weiyan Jian, Jing Guo
OBJECTIVES: As one of the most severe public health issues, depressive symptoms have attracted wide attention around the world. This study aims to investigate the mediating role of marital life satisfaction in the relationship between gender inequality perception and depressive symptoms. METHODS: Data were obtained from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) conducted in 2020. This study incorporated a total of 13,409 married residents aged 20 and above. RESULTS: The residents with middle (B = 0...
March 14, 2024: Journal of Affective Disorders
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38492618/unraveling-disparities-probing-gender-race-and-geographic-inequities-in-pulmonary-heart-disease-mortality-in-the-united-states-an-extensive-longitudinal-examination-1999-2020-leveraging-cdc-wonder-data
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REVIEW
Waqar Arif, Riteeka Kumari Bhimani, Mohsin Ali Shah, Zainab Tausif, Umer Nisar, Rohet Kumar, Parshant Dileep Bhimani, Syed Shoaibullah, Muhammad Abdullah Naveed, Adarsh Raja, Sandesh Raja, Fnu Deepak, Muhammad Ashir Shafique, Muhammmad Saqlain Mustafa
This comprehensive study delves into the epidemiological landscape of Pulmonary Heart Disease (PHD) mortality in the United States from 1999 to 2020, leveraging the extensive CDC WONDER database. PHD encompasses conditions affecting the right side of the heart due to lung disorders or elevated pressure in the pulmonary arteries, including pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary embolism, and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Analyzing data from death certificates, demographic characteristics, and geographical segmentation, significant trends emerge...
March 14, 2024: Current Problems in Cardiology
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38492433/barriers-and-advocacy-needs-for-hepatitis-c-services-in-prisons-informing-the-prisons-hepatitis-c-advocacy-toolkit
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Shelley J Walker, Lok B Shrestha, Andrew R Lloyd, Olivia Dawson, Yumi Sheehan, Julia Sheehan, Nonso B C Maduka, Joaquin Cabezas, Matthew J Akiyama, Nadine Kronfli
BACKGROUND: Carceral settings are a key focus of the 2030 WHO global hepatitis C virus (HCV) elimination goals. Despite this, access to HCV testing and treatment services in prisons remains low globally, limiting opportunities to achieve these goals. Advocacy efforts are needed to address service inequities and mobilise support for enhanced HCV programs in prisons globally. INHSU Prisons, a special interest group of the International Network on Health and Hepatitis in Substance Users (INHSU) is developing a Prisons HCV Advocacy Toolkit to address this need...
March 15, 2024: International Journal on Drug Policy
https://read.qxmd.com/read/38491932/factors-predisposing-emergency-medical-technicians-to-workplace-violence-a-cross-sectional-study
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Tshikani Lewis Khoza, Maureen Nokuthula Sibiya, Nombeko Mshunqane
Emergency medical technicians (EMT) are at high risk of workplace violence as they often care for patients in uncontrolled and often hostile emergency settings. Gauteng Province, the most populous province in South Africa, caters for 75% of the total population which is dependant on state funded health care. Public sector EMTs' have been robbed with aggravated circumstances, assaulted with intent to do grievous bodily harm, raped and even murdered whilst on duty. Despite this, comprehensive studies investigating the factors that predispose public sector EMTs' to workplace violence in Gauteng Province are lacking...
2024: Inquiry: a Journal of Medical Care Organization, Provision and Financing
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