New York City neighborhoods that had higher levels of socioeconomic disadvantage experienced more COVID-19 infections and deaths, according to Mount Sinai scientists who created a neighborhood-level COVID-19 inequity index.
Jun 17, 2021
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Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response. Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor ...
Apr 20, 2021
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Primary health care, conditional cash transfers and social pensions have prevented 1.4 million deaths of all ages in Brazil over the past two decades, according to a study coordinated by the Barcelona Institute for Global ...
Apr 22, 2024
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Daily and lifetime exposure to stress may cause wear and tear on the stress responses of Black Americans, blunting their biological stress response, a new University of Michigan study shows.
Apr 5, 2024
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A new study finds that the extent to which people understand existing racial inequities in access to health care can have an effect on how white and Black people view their own health. The finding has ramifications for how ...
Apr 4, 2024
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There is a pressing need to explore and understand which social determinants of health (SDOH) and health inequities act as significant, influential factors that contribute to low breast cancer screening behaviors in the United ...
Mar 4, 2024
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In a publication in The BMJ, Keisha Bentley-Edwards at Duke University, North Carolina, and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in COVID-19 outcomes and suggest ways ...
Feb 26, 2024
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A new study finds women in health care occupations endure significantly more stress and burnout compared to their male counterparts. The analysis by researchers at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Language use in social media can be a useful tool for social scientists, because it reflects living conditions in areas the posts originate from.
Feb 8, 2024
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Canada's growing income inequality is having an impact on Canadians' mental and physical health, according to public health researchers at the University of Alberta.
Feb 7, 2024
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