scholarly journals Infant mortality: a call to action overcoming health disparities in the United States

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 22503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison A. Vanderbilt ◽  
Marcie S. Wright
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Call To Action

scholarly journals Health disparities among highly vulnerable populations in the United States: a call to action for medical and oral health care

2013 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 20644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison A. Vanderbilt ◽  
Kim T. Isringhausen ◽  
Lynn M. VanderWielen ◽  
Marcie S. Wright ◽  
Lyubov D. Slashcheva ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Oral Health ◽  
Vulnerable Populations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Oral Health Care ◽  
Call To Action

Breastfeeding and Infant Mortality in the United States: A Tennessee Snapshot Is a Call to Action

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (7) ◽  
pp. 435-436
Author(s):  
Melissa C. Bartick
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Infant Mortality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Call To Action

scholarly journals A Confluence of Policy Inequality: Health Disparities in Old Age Among American Indian and Alaska Native Populations

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 37-37
Author(s):  
Sadie Giles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Life Course ◽  
American Indian ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Alaska Native ◽  
Political History ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract Racial health disparities in old age are well established, and new conceptualizations and methodologies continue to advance our understanding of health inequality across the life course. One group that is overlooked in many of these analyses, however, is the aging American Indian/Native Alaskan (AI/NA) population. While scholars have attended to the unique health inequities faced by the AI/NA population as a whole due to its discordant political history with the US government, little attention has been paid to unique patterns of disparity that might exist in old age. I propose to draw critical gerontology into the conversation in order to establish a framework through which we can uncover barriers to health, both from the political context of the AI/NA people as well as the political history of old age policy in the United States. Health disparities in old age are often described through a cumulative (dis)advantage framework that offers the benefit of appreciating that different groups enter old age with different resources and health statuses as a result of cumulative inequalities across the life course. Adding a framework of age relations, appreciating age as a system of inequality where people also gain or lose access to resources and status upon entering old age offers a path for understanding the intersection of race and old age. This paper will show how policy history for this group in particular as well as old age policy in the United States all create a unique and unequal circumstance for the aging AI/NA population.

scholarly journals Understanding and Promoting Racial Diversity in Healthcare Settings to Address Disparities in Pandemic Crisis Management

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 215013272110183
Author(s):  
Azza Sarfraz ◽  
Zouina Sarfraz ◽  
Alanna Barrios ◽  
Kuchalambal Agadi ◽  
Sindhu Thevuthasan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Racial Discrimination ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Minority Group ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Majority Group

Background: Health disparities have become apparent since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. When observing racial discrimination in healthcare, self-reported incidences, and perceptions among minority groups in the United States suggest that, the most socioeconomically underrepresented groups will suffer disproportionately in COVID-19 due to synergistic mechanisms. This study reports racially-stratified data regarding the experiences and impacts of different groups availing the healthcare system to identify disparities in outcomes of minority and majority groups in the United States. Methods: Studies were identified utilizing PubMed, Embase, CINAHL Plus, and PsycINFO search engines without date and language restrictions. The following keywords were used: Healthcare, raci*, ethnic*, discriminant, hosti*, harass*, insur*, education, income, psychiat*, COVID-19, incidence, mortality, mechanical ventilation. Statistical analysis was conducted in Review Manager (RevMan V.5.4). Unadjusted Odds Ratios, P-values, and 95% confidence intervals were presented. Results: Discrimination in the United States is evident among racial groups regarding medical care portraying mental risk behaviors as having serious outcomes in the health of minority groups. The perceived health inequity had a low association to the majority group as compared to the minority group (OR = 0.41; 95% CI = 0.22 to 0.78; P = .007), and the association of mental health problems to the Caucasian-American majority group was low (OR = 0.51; 95% CI = 0.45 to 0.58; P < .001). Conclusion: As the pandemic continues into its next stage, efforts should be taken to address the gaps in clinical training and education, and medical practice to avoid the recurring patterns of racial health disparities that become especially prominent in community health emergencies. A standardized tool to assess racial discrimination and inequity will potentially improve pandemic healthcare delivery.

scholarly journals Health disparities in cardiometabolic risk among Black and Hispanic youth in the United States

2021 ◽  
pp. 100175
Author(s):  
Sophia Figueroa Katz ◽  
Fatima Rodriguez ◽  
Joshua W. Knowles
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Disparities ◽  
Cardiometabolic Risk ◽  
The United States ◽  
Hispanic Youth
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