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- The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated the persistent racial and ethnic health disparities in the United States. The pandemic has also had profound spillover effects on other aspects of health and wellbeing, such as mental health, chronic diseases, education, and income, for marginalized groups. In this article, we provide a thorough analysis of the pandemic’s impact on racial and…July 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Policy and Practice
- We explored state-level indicators of structural racism on internalizing symptoms of depressive affect among US adolescents. We merged 16 indicators of state-level structural racism with 2015-19 Monitoring the Future surveys (n = 41 258) examining associations with loneliness, self-esteem, self-derogation, and depressive symptoms using regression analyses. Students racialized as Black in states…July 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Racism
- In recent years, there have been alarming onslaughts on women’s right to health care. These attacks have taken various forms, including legislative measures that restrict access to reproductive health care services resulting in rising maternal morbidity and mortality, as well as attempts to defund organizations that provide these services. While the battle for such health rights rages on, another…June 2024Maternal/Child Health
- The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need to strengthen the US public health system by shifting toward much greater community engagement and leadership. In November and December 2023, we conducted separate online surveys of community-based organizations and large metropolitan health departments to identify barriers and opportunities for building a public health system with strong community…June 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Republicans and Democrats responded in starkly different ways to the COVID-19 pandemic, from their attitudes in 2020 about whether the virus posed a threat to whether the pandemic ended in 2023. The consequences of COVID-19 for health equity has been a central concern in public health, and the concept of health equity has also been beset by partisan polarization. In this essay, we present and…June 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Systemic Determinants
- Optimizing healthcare resource allocation through data-driven demographic and psychographic analysisThis paper explores the multifaceted nature of healthcare resource allocation, examining demographic and psychographic analysis, data sources and analysis techniques, challenges, future directions, and innovations. Demographic analysis provides insights into population characteristics, healthcare demand, and disparities, informing targeted resource allocation strategies. Psychographic analysis…June 2024Policy and Practice
- This paper discusses the role of social media algorithms in the spread of misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic. It aims to propose solutions to combat misinformation and promote accurate, evidence-based public health information. (author abstract)#P4HEwebinarQ2_2025June 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Communication
- COVID-19 has shed light on the need for community-engaged research to fuel crisis and emergency risk communication in underserved settings, promote timely and effective access to testing and vaccination for marginalized communities, and reduce disparities related to leveraging data and for communication, dissemination, and building trust. However, unethical and inappropriate research practice…May 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Purpose: Racialized economic segregation, a form of structural racism, may drive persistent inequities among patients with breast cancer. We examined whether a composite area-level index of racialized economic segregation was associated with real-world treatment and survival in metastatic breast cancer (mBC).Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study among adult women with mBC using a US…May 2024Cancer, Social/Structural Determinants
- Trust is vital to public confidence in health and science, yet there is no consensus on the most useful way to conceptualize, define, measure, or intervene on trust and its related constructs (e.g., mistrust, distrust, and trustworthiness). In this review, we synthesize literature from this wide-ranging field that has conceptual roots in racism, marginalization, and other forms of oppression. We…May 2024Advocacy
- Researchers often lament that government decision-makers do not generate or use research evidence. People in government often lament that researchers are not responsive to government's needs. Yet there is increasing enthusiasm in government, research, and philanthropy sectors for developing, investing in, and sustaining government-research partnerships that focus on government's use of evidence.…April 2024Policy and Practice
- In public health research and practice, data visuals play an important role. They are tools for education, awareness, and persuasion. Key health agencies create visual messages to reach people of all literacy and education levels to help them quickly understand information by complementing or replacing text with images. A well-designed infographic on how wash hands in 12 steps is critical for…April 2024Communication
- The characteristics of a neighborhood’s built environment may influence health-promoting behaviors, interactions between neighbors, and perceptions of safety. Although some research has reported on how youth in high-violence communities navigate danger, less work has investigated how these youth perceive the built environment, their desires for these spaces, and how these desires relate to their…April 2024Physical Environment
- In 2022, over 10% of the United States population aged 65 or older (6.5 million) lived with dementia. However, the disease burden is unequal; older adults racialized as Black experience 1.5–1.9 times higher incidence compared with older adults racialized as White and suffer steeper cognitive decline. These profound Black-White disparities in cognitive health stem from lifetime exposure to…April 2024Racism
- In contemporary societies, pursuing equality and inclusivity is a paramount objective. However, intersectional inequalities often impede achieving these ideals, which impact various facets of identity. Among those most affected are individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), whose experiences of exclusion are compounded by intersecting factors such as race, gender,…April 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- Child well-being refers to the overall state of a child's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development, encompassing their health, happiness, safety, and ability to thrive. Child well-being is influenced by various factors, including family support, education, access to healthcare, and neighborhood characteristics. Neighborhood characteristics refer to a range of attributes defining the…March 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Environmental/Community Health
- Birth outcomes nationwide are characterized by wide disparities in maternal morbidity and mortality. One potential solution to mitigating these disparities has been to increase access to doulas—traditionally defined as individuals who provide emotional, informational, and physical support around and during the time of birth. However, support with navigating challenges throughout the entire…March 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- COVID-19 vaccination campaigns across the US were implemented to mitigate the disproportionate hospitalizations and unnecessary deaths across many communities that experienced unequal gaps in initial vaccine distribution rollout and uptake. In parallel, the COVID-19 pandemic created declines in routine vaccination coverage for adults, adolescents, and children; particularly, in communities…February 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Vaccines
- Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Although the diagnostic technology of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) has advanced, accurate and differential diagnoses of PTB are still challenging. In recent years, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and its wide application in the medical field have provided new opportunities for diagnosing and…February 2024Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice
- Policy PointsThe structural determinants of health are 1) the written and unwritten rules that create, maintain, or eliminate durable and hierarchical patterns of advantage among socially constructed groups in the conditions that affect health, and 2) the manifestation of power relations in that people and groups with more power based on current social structures work—implicitly and explicitly—to…February 2024Social/Structural Determinants
- People with intellectual disabilities (IDs) experience extensive health disparities, including premature mortality and higher incidence of chronic disease. These inequities have been linked to reduced access to preventive health care for this population. We review the evidence as it relates to barriers and facilitators of effective implementation of health checks and screenings for people with…February 2024Chronic Disease
- Societal systems act individually and in concert to create and perpetuate structural racism through both policies and practices at the local, state, and federal levels that, in turn, generate racial health disparities. Both current and historical policy approaches across multiple sectors including but not limited to housing, employment, health insurance, immigration and criminal legal, have the…February 2024Policy & Law
- Racial and ethnic minoritized uninsured populations in the United States face the greatest barriers to accessing mental healthcare. Historically, systems of care in the U.S. were set up using inadequate evidence at the federal, state, and local levels, driving inequities in access to quality care for minoritized populations. These inequities are most evident in community-based mental health…January 2024Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy & Law
- With funding from the National Institutes of Health’s Community Engagement Alliance, starting in fall 2020, 11 academic medical centers and 75 community partners came together as the California Alliance Against COVID-19 to address COVID-19 inequities in California. Using data from focus groups, statewide meetings, and a statewide partner survey, we describe how promotoras and community health…January 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Objective: The value of patient involvement to the design, conduct, and outcomes of healthcare research is increasingly being recognized. Patient involvement also provides greater patient accessibility and contribution to research. However, the use of inaccessible and technical language when communicating with patients is a barrier to effective patient involvement.Methods: We analyzed peer-…January 2024Policy and Practice
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