Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Demographic, Clinical, and Psychosocial Factors Identify a High-Risk Group for Depression Screening among Predominantly Hispanic Patients with Type 2 Diabetes in Safety Net Care
In this study, researchers identified the biopsychosocial factors associated with depression for patients with Type 2 diabetes, and reported that knowing biopsychosocial factors could help primary care physicians and endocrinologists identify a high-risk group of patients needing depression screening.
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Brief Report: Recruitment and Retention of Minority Children for Autism Research
This study evaluated promising strategies to effectively recruit Latinos into genetic research on autism spectrum disorders, and found that culture-specific, parent-centered approaches were successful in engaging and retaining Latino participants for research involving genetic testing.
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Estimated Human and Economic Burden of Four Major Adult Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in the United States, 2013
The researchers developed a customizable model to estimate human and economic burden caused by four major adult vaccine-preventable diseases (VPD) in 2013 in the United States, and for each US state individually, and suggested that broadening adult immunization efforts beyond influenza only may help reduce the economic burden of adult VPD, and a pneumococcal vaccination effort, primarily focused on reducing NPP, may constitute a logical starting place.
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Factors Associated with Failure to Achieve SVR in Hepatitis C Genotype 3 Patients Within an Integrated Care Delivery System
This study found that sustained virologic response and factors associated with treatment failure in hepatitis C virus genotype 3 were lower in patients within an integrated care delivery system than in those in tertiary and referral centers.
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Vaccine-Preventable Diseases in Adults are Costly
It’s easy to get distracted by the controversy and politicizing that all-too-often occupies vaccine debate, but regardless of ones stance on the issue, the high costs associated with the diseases they prevent are indisputable.
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Estimating the Association between Metabolic Risk Factors and Marijuana Use in US Adults Using Data from the Continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
This study challenges the robustness of ordinary least squares estimates of a positive relationship between marijuana use and fasting insulin, insulin resistance, body mass index, and waist circumference.
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Ending Suffering by Ending Persons
Because physician-assisted suicide does not just end suffering but also ends a person, it trusts that in the future we would be the same person that we are now—the person who wants to commit suicide, says Jason Doctor.
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Using Online Social Media and Social Networks as a Public Health Intervention
In this study, the researchers performed a public reporting data-based intervention using social media and social network marketing campaigns to influence women in Los Angeles to seek public information on
maternity care hospital quality, with results suggesting that commercially available online advertising platforms in wide use by other industries may play a low cost role in targeted public health interventions.Categorized in -
Low-Income Minority Patient Engagement with Automated Telephonic Depression Assessment and Impact on Health Outcomes
In this investigation of the dimensions of low-income minority patient engagement in the context of diabetes-depression care-management with automated telephone assessment (ATA) calls as a facilitator, the researchers identified barriers to aid the design and implementation of future automated screening and monitoring systems to optimize patient engagement.
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