Källestål, C. Blandón Zelaya, E. Peña, R. Peréz, W. Contreras, M. Persson, L. Å. Sysoev, O. Ekholm Selling, K.
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International Journal for Equity in Health
BackgroundIn order to further identify the needed interventions for continued poverty reduction in our study area Cuatro Santos, northern Nicaragua, we aimed to elucidate what predicts poverty, measured by the Unsatisfied Basic Need index. This analysis was done by using decision tree methodology applied to the Cuatro Santos health and demographic ...
Yao Namé, Juste Michel
Cette étude vise à mieux comprendre les conditions de l’impact supposé positif des transferts de fonds des migrants à l’aune des flux migratoires, sur la sécurité alimentaire et la réduction de la pauvreté suite à un choc climatique simultanément subi à une échelle régionale. Elle utilise pour ce faire, un modèle spécifié en VAR (à Vecteur Autorégr...
Lines, Lisa M Cohen, Julia Halpern, Michael T Smith, Ashley Wilder Kent, Erin E
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Cancer causes & control : CCC
Given the associations between poverty and poorer outcomes among older adults with cancer, we sought to understand the effects of dual enrollment in Medicare and Medicaid-as a marker of poverty-on self-reported care experiences among seniors diagnosed with cancer. Retrospective, observational study using cancer registry, Medicare claims, and care e...
Weprin, Samuel A Parker, Daniel C Jones, Joshua D Kaplan, Joshua R Giusto, Laura L Mydlo, Jack H Yu, Sue-Jean S Lee, David I Eun, Daniel D Reese, Adam C
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Clinical genitourinary cancer
We tested for associations between socioeconomic status (SES) and adverse prostate cancer pathology in a population of African American (AA) men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP). We retrospectively reviewed data from 2 institutions for AA men who underwent RP between 2010 and 2015. Household incomes were estimated using census tract data, an...
Berthe, Sara Harvey, Steven A. Lynch, Matthew Koenker, Hannah Jumbe, Vincent Kaunda-Khangamwa, Blessings Mathanga, Don P.
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Malaria Journal
BackgroundOver the past decade, food insecurity, connected to erratic rains and reduced agricultural outputs, has plagued Malawi. Many households are turning to fishing to seek additional sources of income and food. There is anecdotal evidence that insecticide-treated net (ITN) recipients in Malawi are using their nets for purposes other than sleep...
Choi, Jeong-Kyun Wang, Dan Jackson, Aurora P
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Child abuse & neglect
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are an identified risk factor for the social and emotional development of children. What is less known is the long-term effects of ACEs when poverty and ACEs coincide. Using longitudinal cohort-panel data, we examined whether exposure to ACEs by the age of three among poor children would longitudinally result in...
Petrelli, Alessio Rosano, Aldo Rossi, Alessandra Mirisola, Concetta Cislaghi, Cesare
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn Italy, the number of individuals who have forgone medical examinations or treatments for economic reasons is one of the highest in Europe. During the global economic crisis of 2008, the restrictive policies concerning access to healthcare and the quality of these services, which differs widely throughout the country, may have accentuat...
Barbosa, Lizelda Maria de Araújo Arruda, Ilma Kruze Grande de Canuto, Raquel Lira, Pedro Israel Cabral de Monteiro, Jailma Santos Freitas, Déborah Lemos Paula, Weslla Karla Albuquerque Silva de... Batista Filho, Malaquias
Abstract Objectives: to study the prevalence of excess weight and associated factors among adolescents from a low-income neighborhood located in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. Methods: cross-sectional study, in which behavioral, socioeconomic and demographic information was collected from June to December 2014. Excess weight was calculated based o...
Auchincloss, Amy H Michael, Yvonne L Kuder, Julia F Shi, Jinggaofu Khan, Sumaiya Ballester, Lance S
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Preventive medicine reports
Few studies have evaluated physical activity changes in response to active transportation investments in low-income disadvantaged communities. This quasi-experimental pre-post paired location design assessed physical activity responses to a 1.5-mile urban greenway constructed in 2013 along arterial streets in a poor, high-crime, predominantly Afric...
Garcia, Lucas França Bernuci, Marcelo Picinin Marques, Andrea Grano Bertolini, Sonia Maria Marques Silva, Tania Maria Gomes da
Abstract Health promotion is a set of strategies that aim to improve the quality of life of individuals and populations. Since these strategies are based on social determinants of health, it is important to identify vulnerability issues in order to explore their impact on health care. The present study describes a case study showing the perception ...
