Londoño Agudelo, Esteban García Fariñas, Anaí Pérez Ospina, Viviana Taborda Pérez, Cecilia Villacrés Landeta, Tatiana Battaglioli, Tullia Gómez Arias, Rubén Van der Stuyft, Patrick
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Global health action
Background Hypertension requires life-long medical care, which may cause economic burden and even lead to catastrophic health expenditure. Objective To estimate the extent of out-of-pocket expenditure for hypertension care at a population level and its impact on households' budgets in a low-income urban setting in Colombia. Methods We conducted a c...
Jolidon, Vladimir De Prez, Vincent Willems, Barbara Bracke, Piet Cullati, Stéphane Burton-Jeangros, Claudine
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundResearch on inequalities in cervical cancer screening (CCS) participation has overlooked the distinction between ‘never-’ and ‘under-screeners’ while different socioeconomic and demographic determinants may underlie ‘non-’ and ‘under-’ screening participation. This study examines socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in never and und...
Ravindran, Saravana Shah, Manisha
Violence against women is a problem worldwide, with economic costs ranging from 1-4% of global GDP. Using variation in the intensity of government-mandated lockdowns in India, we show that domestic violence complaints increase 0.47 SD in districts with the strictest lockdown rules. We find similarly large increases in cybercrime complaints. Interes...
Chiaramonte, Danielle Miller, Robin Lin Lee, KyungSook Santiago Rivera, Olga J Acevedo-Polakovich, Ignacio D McGirr, Sara Porter, Jennifer L Ellen, Jonathan M Boyer, Cherrie B medicine, adolescent
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In the United States, youth aged 13-24 comprised approximately 21% of new HIV infections in 2017; 13% of these infections occurred among women, the majority of whom (86%) acquired HIV through heterosexual contact (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2019a. HIV and youth. Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/group/age/youth/index.html, Cen...
Lipsey, Amanda Faye Waterman, Amy D Wood, Emily H Balliet, Wendy
OBJECTIVES:First-person storytelling (FPS) has the potential to engage patients in changing behavior differently than didactic education. We assessed the prevalence of FPS in health education interventions; whether published FPS research has shown improvements in attitudinal, knowledge, behavioral, or clinical outcomes; and whether randomized contr...
McMenamin, Sara B Yoeun, Sara W Wellman, Joanne P Zhu, Shu-Hong
INTRODUCTION:In 2016, the California Department of Health Care Services issued All Plan Letter 16-014 to the Medi-Cal Managed Care plans to provide information on requirements for comprehensive tobacco-cessation services. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego set out to (1) examine Medi-Cal's Managed Care plans' progress in impleme...
Nagarajan, Subhathra Jena, Narendra Nath Davey, Kevin Douglass, Katherine Smith, Jeffrey Blanchard, Janice
Introduction: Bull-related injuries are commonly observed in rural areas of India as result of the animal’s use in sporting events as well as for agricultural purposes. These patients need early resuscitation due to complications from severe injuries. Previous work examining the epidemiology of bull-related injuries is limited, with most studies fo...
Creese, H-M Taylor-Robinson, D Saglani, S Saxena, S
Around 1.1 million children and young people (CYP)currently receive treatment for asthma in the United Kingdom (UK)(1). The UK performs poorly compared with other European countries in children's outcomes of asthma management and has had amongst the highest number of reported asthma deaths in Europesince 1998 (2). We evaluate evidenceofthe impact o...
Cioffi, Andrea
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Ethics, Medicine, and Public Health
La pandémie de COVID-19 a mis à rude épreuve la stabilité des systèmes de santé nationaux et de la société elle-même. La baisse de la mortalité liée aux COVID-19 est positive. Cependant, nous ne connaissons pas la raison de cette diminution associée à une contagion dans de nombreux pays du monde. Pour ces raisons, le moment n’est pas venu de baisse...
engagement, community
Descriptions of all the presentations scheduled for the Community Engagement and Research Symposium Webinar Series 2020 from the UMass Center for Clinical and Translational Science.
