Population Health and Disparities
Our work in Population Health and Disparities
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Microsimulation Projections of Obesity Interventions on Cardiometabolic Health Disparities in the United States
Schaeffer Center researchers simulate how health education implemented in the United States throughout 2019 to 2049 would lead to changes in adult BMI and consequent hypertension and type 2 diabetes.
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Patient Frailty and Functional Use of Hemodialysis Vascular Access: A Retrospective Study of the US Renal Data System
Despite the high prevalence of frailty among dialysis patients, it is unknown whether frailty is associated with dialysis vascular access failure. This study examined the association between frailty and functional use of vascular access.
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Incidence of Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy and Other Neovascular Sequelae at 5 Years Following Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes
Research Design and Methods: Insured patients aged ≥18 years with newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes and 5 years of continuous enrollment were identified from a nationwide commercial claims database containing data from 2007 to 2015. The incidences of PDR, TRD, and NVG were computed at 5 years following the index diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. Associations between these outcomes and demographic, socioeconomic, and medical factors were tested with multivariable logistic regression.
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Discrimination and Hypertension Among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
Discrimination is a major contributor to health disparities between Black and White older adults.
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New USC Schaeffer Research Maps State and Federal Responses to the Opioid Crisis During the COVID-19 Pandemic
While all states and D.C. have adopted at least one policy related to treatment access for patients suffering from opioid addiction, no state adopted all the policies analyzed, leaving potential barriers in place.
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Discrimination and Hypertension among Older African Americans and Caribbean Blacks: The Moderating Effects of John Henryism
Discrimination is a major contributor to health disparities between Black and White older adults. Although the health effects of discrimination are well established, less is known about factors that may intervene in the discrimination-health connection, such as coping strategies.
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Exploring Associative Pathways and Gender Effects of Racial and Weight Discrimination with Sleep Quality, Physical Activity, and Dietary Behavior in Adults with Higher Body Mass Index and Elevated Cardiovascular Disease Risk
Racial disparities in obesity and cardiovascular disease can partly be attributed discrimination. Racial discrimination (RD) and weight discrimination (WD) have been linked to higher psychological distress, lower sleep quality, less physical activity, and unhealthy diet, which can negatively impact weight. Better understanding the processes by which discrimination influences weight-loss factors would help create strategies for mitigating obesity disparities.
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Do Early-Life Social, Behavioral, and Health Exposures Increase Later-Life Arthritis Incidence?
New Schaeffer Center research shows that experiencing two or more childhood socioeconomic disadvantages is indirectly associated with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis.
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