... Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (OBSSR).
American Indians and Alaska Natives have higher rates of diabetes, asthma and other conditions that make them more vulnerable. The study is being published ...
Castro, senior author David Wetter, Ph.D., professor and chair of Health Disparities, and colleagues are addressing that issue with a long-term cohort study ...
... problems suffered by some of these babies," they concluded. The US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has more about preterm birth.
And mid-life, low-income women have higher rates of diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease — three of four chronic health conditions examined in ...
The paper, “Beyond the IT Magic Bullet: HIV Prevention Education and
Public Policy,” is published in the November issue of the Journal of Health Disparities...
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender patients face the compounded
impact of decreased access to care coupled with clinician bias toward
those LGBT ...
The research project is funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. ...
A 2005 Public Health study charting childhood obesity by community showed, for example, obesity rates in this age group of 27.5 percent in Hawthorne, ...
Poverty is estimated to result in rising costs on children's health care by approximately $22 billion per year. "Children in poverty are significantly more ...
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health care among Latinos," the study authors concluded. The US Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention has more about Hispanics and health disparities.
... which has now reached epidemic proportions globally, heart disease risk, which is nowextremely prevalent among Americans, decreased immune function, ...
Other authors contributing to this study include Cheryl Lynch, MD, MPH, Center for Health Disparities Research, Medical University of South Carolina; ...
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
When issues related to the
unequal treatment of specific populations are examined, clinician bias
is increasingly implicated for its probable role in ...
... the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities, and the National Institute on Aging supported ...
Toddlers who were not breastfed, along with male toddlers, are more likely to show early signs of childhood obesity. Toddlers whose mothers had received ...
... and more resistant to government-based solutions, and to be less supportive of proposals aimed at eliminating health disparities, the researchers say. ...
