Data-driven insights into interhospital care fragmentation: Implications for health policy and equity among older adults. by Somayeh Ghazalbash, Manaf Zargoush, Vedat Verter, Dan Perri

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>ICF exacerbates health disparities and worsens patient outcomes. Our study identified several risk factors associated with ICF, some of which are controllable, paving the way for interventions to mitigate this issue. …”
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Brief Coping Scale TCS-9: Optimising the Assessment of Coping Strategies. The case of Health Care Workers. by Basant K. Puri, Anastasia Miari, Maria Theodoratou

“…# Background The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the focus on mental health, particularly on the coping strategies of healthcare workers who have faced unparalleled stress due to their pivotal role in addressing health disparities and determinants of health. Constantly operating in high-risk environments and managing the surge of critically ill patients, these professionals' psychological resilience has been sternly tested, necessitating robust assessment tools…”
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Challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence in African health space by Muslim A. Alaran, Salim Kamaludeen Lawal, Mustapha Husseini Jiya, Salihu Alhassan Egya, Mohamed Mustaf Ahmed, Abdullateef Abdulsalam, Usman Abubakar Haruna, Muhammad Kabir Musa, Don Eliseo Lucero-Prisno

“…The use of AI allows for the development of policies that are tailored to address health disparities based on evidence. While AI may increase accessibility and affordability through telehealth, remote monitoring, and cost reductions, significant barriers remain. …”
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Building a diverse national research advisory board by Gayle Valensky, Jeff B. Pawelek, Lauren Serpico, David Rodriguez, Maribel Pieters, Yulissa Perez, Julia Moore Vogel

“…It is crucial to include individuals from diverse backgrounds on community advisory boards for healthcare and medical research to address ongoing health disparities and ensure studies are more culturally competent so that we can achieve more inclusive representation. …”
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AI Can Be a Powerful Social Innovation for Public Health if Community Engagement Is at the Core by Alessandra N Bazzano, Andrea Mantsios, Nicholas Mattei, Michael R Kosorok, Aron Culotta

“…Risks to privacy and perpetuation of bias are more likely to be avoided if AI technologies in public health are designed with knowledge of community engagement, existing health disparities, and strategies for improving equity. …”
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The Food Resources and Kitchen Skills intervention: Protocol of a randomized controlled trial. by Armando Peña, Emily Dawkins, Mariah Adams, Lyndsi R Moser, Amy Carter, Rebecca L Rivera, Deanna Reinoso, Wanzhu Tu, Richard J Holden, Daniel O Clark

“…Understanding the behavior change levers of FoRKS that are associated with changes in health outcomes, whether these outcomes are maintained, and its cost-effectiveness will inform future efforts to address health disparities.…”
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Infusing Oral Health Care into Nursing Curriculum: Addressing Preventive Health in Aging and Disability by Joan Earle Hahn, Leah FitzGerald, Young Kee Markham, Paul Glassman, Nancy Guenther

“…Access to oral health care is essential for promoting and maintaining overall health and well-being, yet oral health disparities exist among vulnerable and underserved populations. …”
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Cross-sectional analysis of two social determinants of health in California cities: racial/ethnic and geographic disparities by Dulce Bustamante-Zamora, Neil Maizlish

“…Differences with a non-White reference group were considered health disparities.Setting Cities of the State of California, USA.Results Within-city differences in the prevalence of poverty and low educational attainment disfavoured Black and Latinos compared with Whites in over 78% of the cities. …”
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Individual level peer interventions for gay and bisexual men who have sex with men between 2000 and 2020: A scoping review. by Jack Freestone, Krista Joy Siefried, Garrett Prestage, Mohamed Hammoud, Angus Molyneux, Adam Bourne

“…Since the year 2000, technological advancements in HIV and an increased response to the health disparities faced by GBMSM outside of HIV, have contributed to the expanding scope of their content and delivery. …”
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Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating a Program to Address the Oral Health Needs of Aboriginal Children in Port Augusta, Australia by E. J. Parker, G. Misan, M. Shearer, L. Richards, A. Russell, H. Mills, L. M. Jamieson

“…Aboriginal Australian children experience profound oral health disparities relative to their non-Aboriginal counterparts. …”
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Poverty associated with anxiety, personality and depression disorders in adults at the "Sarita Colonia" Community Mental Health Center in Callao 2017–2022 by Pedro Martínez Valera, Ada Lucía Gallegos Ruiz Cornejo, Jackeline Valencia, Mauricio Renato Bouroncle Velásquez, Doris Esenarro Vargas, Luis Vega-Mori, Ana Sánchez Medina

“…These results inform the development of more targeted mental health interventions and public policies, emphasizing the need for comprehensive poverty measures to enhance the effectiveness of strategies addressing mental health disparities.…”
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Opportunities for meaningful inclusion: experience of individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities with research by Ally Dudley, Tai Baker, Canyon Hardesty, Eric J. Moody

“…BackgroundIndividuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) face numerous health disparities, particularly in rural communities. However, they are rarely included in the research process to address these challenges as co-researchers. …”
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Diversity and inclusion for the All of Us research program: A scoping review. by Brandy M Mapes, Christopher S Foster, Sheila V Kusnoor, Marcia I Epelbaum, Mona AuYoung, Gwynne Jenkins, Maria Lopez-Class, Dara Richardson-Heron, Ahmed Elmi, Karl Surkan, Robert M Cronin, Consuelo H Wilkins, Eliseo J Pérez-Stable, Eric Dishman, Joshua C Denny, Joni L Rutter, All of Us Research Program

“…Only by ensuring diversity and by addressing the very barriers that limit it, can we position All of Us to better understand and tackle health disparities.…”
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Human immune system: Exploring diversity across individuals and populations by Kim Han Hoang Nguyen, Nghi Vinh Le, Phuc Hoang Nguyen, Hien Hau Thi Nguyen, Duy Mai Hoang, Chien Dinh Huynh

“…This review systematically organizes these findings, with the goal of emphasizing the potential of targeted interventions to address health disparities and advance translational research, enabling a more comprehensive strategy. …”
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Nutrition and diet in the general U.S. Asian American population: A scoping review protocol. by Sze Wan Chan, Gregory Laynor, Shahmir H Ali, Stella S Yi

“…<h4>Introduction</h4>Asian American populations face unique structural/social inequities contributing to poor diet quality and health disparities. The current body of literature on diet and food consumption of Asian Americans mainly focuses on the health of Filipino and East Asian Americans, or those with pre-existing non-communicable diseases.…”
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Occupational therapy and cooking: A scoping review and future directions by R. Hingst, D. C. Alvarado, L. Bardin, N. Farmer

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Differential protective effects of Family Income-to-Poverty-Ratio on electronic cigarette, depression, and obesity of Black and White Americans by Shervin Assari

“…To redress these racial health disparities, targeted interventions are crucial, particularly those that focus on bridging the employment and marriage rate gaps caused by educational disparities among Black communities. …”
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Unequal weathering: How immigrants’ health advantage vanishes over the life-course by Silvia Loi, Peng Li, Mikko Myrskylä

“…We find that immigrants, and especially immigrant women, have a faster health decline than non-immigrants; that high education is linked to higher levels of health, but does not protect immigrants from ageing in poorer health compared to non-immigrants; and that health disparities between immigrants and non-immigrants persist over the life-course net of the socio-economic controls, which appear to be secondary to other unobserved determinants.…”
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Axial Spondyloarthritis in Black Americans: An Observational Study From Five Centers in Shelby County, Tennessee by Krishna Kommineni, Iman Abutineh, Cathy Chapman, Debendra Pattanaik, Mohamad Bittar

“…We also aimed to report diagnostic delays, disease severity, and health disparities in this population. Methods This was a retrospective observational study in which electronic records of patients with axSpA were reviewed across five centers in Shelby County. …”
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Evaluating translational science knowledge gains following an online short course for a general scientific audience by Amanda L. Vogel, Shadab F. Hussain, Jessica M. Faupel-Badger

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