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Ethnic Disparities in Oral Health Related Quality of Life among Adults in London, England
(CDH Publishers, 2017)
OBJECTIVE: To explore ethnic disparities in oral health related quality of life (OHQoL) among adults, and the role that socioeconomic factors play in that association. RESEARCH DESIGN: Data from 705 adults from a socially ...
Explaining ethnic disparities in preterm birth in Argentina and Ecuador
(Routledge, 2016-11)
Little is understood about racial/ethnic disparities in infant health in South America. We quantified the extent to which the disparity in preterm birth (PTB; <37 gestational weeks) rate between infants of Native only ...
Community-Engaged Research to Address Health Disparities in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
(Wiley, 2021)
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a systemic autoimmune disease characterized by evidence of autoantibodies and multiorgan system involvement leading to significant physical and functional disability. The reported ...
The impact of increasing health insurance coverage on disparities in mortality: health care reform in Colombia, 1998-2007
(American Public Health AssociationGestión y Políticas de SaludWashington, Estados Unidos, 2023)
Monitoring gender equity in health using gender-sensitive indicators: A cross-national study
(Mary Ann Liebert, 2011)
Background: As gender is known to be a major determinant of health, monitoring gender equity in health systems remains a vital public health priority. Focusing on a low-income (Peru), middle-income (Colombia), and high-income ...
Changing care and prevention needs for global public health: In pursuit of a comprehensive perspective
(Taylor and Francis, 2012)
An assessment of changing care and prevention needs in the framework of global public health should not be just a technical exercise of 'standard' demographic and epidemiological analysis; rather, it should also involve a ...
¿Somos iguales? Using a structural violence framework to understand gender and health inequities from an intersectional perspective in the Peruvian Amazon
(Taylor and Francis, 2017)
BACKGROUND: In the Peruvian Amazon, historical events of colonization and political marginalization intersect with identities of ethnicity, class and geography in the construction of gender and health inequities. Gender-based ...
Vulnerability of indigenous health to climate change: A case study of Uganda's Batwa Pygmies
(Elsevier, 2012)
The potential impacts of climate change on human health in sub-Saharan Africa are wide-ranging, complex, and largely adverse. The region's Indigenous peoples are considered to be at heightened risk given their relatively ...
Endemic Cardiovascular Diseases of the Poorest Billion
(Wolters Kluwer Health, 2016)
The poorest billion people are distributed throughout the world, though most are concentrated in rural sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Cardiovascular disease (CVD) data can be sparse in low- and middle-income countries ...
Income gradients in oral health according to child age
(Wiley, 2015)
This study aimed to confirm whether the well-known income disparities in oral health seen over the life course are indeed absent in 9- to 11-yr-old children, and to explore the role of access to dental care in explaining ...