Dawson, Beverly Araujo Carvalho, Keri Cuevas, Adolfo
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Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Subjec tive social status (SSS) has consistently been linked to health outcomes among Latinx populations, but less is known about how discrimination explains the relationship between SSS and health disparities. While SSS, an individual's perception of her socioeconomic standing, is a robust predictor of health disparities in many societies, discrim...
Narain, Kimberly Danae Cauley Harawa, Nina
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AIDS and behavior
Investigamos el impacto de la generosidad del Crédito Federal Tributario por Ingreso de Trabajo a nivel estatal (SEITC) sobre el comportamiento de riesgo al VIH entre madres solteras con baja educación. Unimos los datos a nivel individual del Sistema de Vigilancia a Factores de Riesgo de Comportamiento (2002–2018) con los datos a nivel estatal del ...
Roldan Ramirez, Elvia Lucía Díaz Sánchez, Ruth Vargas, Camilo Andrés
Introduction: The increase in life expectancy has become a reality, a problem, and a challenge for developing countries such as Colombia, marked by social determinants in which the elderly population is largely affected. Objective: Describe the perception of older adults and their families regarding formal and informal social support networks that ...
Epele, María E
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Culture, medicine and psychiatry
Based on the ethnographic research carried out on speech-based therapies at health centers in marginalized areas of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, this article problematizes the "breaking down" or "being broken" as a local language of afflictions that emerges from the rapidly deteriorating material living conditions related to downward social ...
Le, Vi T Rhew, Isaac C Kosterman, Rick Lovasi, Gina S Frank, Lawrence D
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Journal of urban health : bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine
Few studies examining the effects of neighborhood exposures have accounted for longitudinal residential history. This study examined associations of body mass index (BMI, kg/m2) with neighborhood-level walkability and poverty, both assessed concurrently and cumulatively in the years leading up to BMI assessment. Participants (N = 808) were from a c...
Broadbent, Alex Streicher, Pieter
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Global epidemiology
The initial response to the Covid-19 pandemic was characterised by swift "lockdowns," a cluster of measures defined by a shared goal of suppressing Covid-19 and a shared character of restricting departure from the home except for specific purposes. By mid-April 2020, most countries were implementing stringent measures of this kind. This essay conte...
Zhu, Jay Lois, Alex W Gitonga, Baraka Chen-Meekin, Judy Y Williams, Estell J Khandelwal, Saurabh Carrera Ceron, Rocio Oelschlager, Brant K Wright, Andrew S
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Surgical endoscopy
The COVID-19 pandemic caused many surgical providers to conduct outpatient evaluations using remote audiovisual conferencing technology (i.e., telemedicine) for the first time in 2020. We describe our year-long institutional experience with telemedicine in several general surgery clinics at an academic tertiary care center and examine the relations...
Hastings, Paul D Guyer, Amanda E Parra, Luis A
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Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging
Psychiatry and allied disciplines have recognized the potency of structural and social determinants of mental health, yet there has been scant attention given to the roles of neurobiology in the links between structural and social determinants and mental health. In this article, we make the case for why greater attention must be given to structural...
Perier, Celine Nasinghe, Emmanuel Charles, Isabelle Ssetaba, Leoson Junior Ahyong, Vida Bangs, Derek Beatty, P Robert Czudnochowski, Nadine Diallo, Amy Dugan, Eli
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Science education and research have the potential to drive profound change in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) through encouraging innovation, attracting industry, and creating job opportunities. However, in LMICs, research capacity is often limited, and acquisition of funding and access to state-of-the-art technologies is challenging. The ...
Rowhani-Rahbar, Ali Schleimer, Julia P Moe, Caitlin A Rivara, Frederick P Hill, Heather D
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Preventive medicine
Firearm violence is a major threat to global public health and safety. Several individual, family, peer, community, and societal risk and protective factors determine or modify the risk of firearm violence. Specifically, there is a strong relationship between poverty, income inequality, and firearm violence; as such, interventions that influence up...
