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Adverse socioeconomic conditions, at both the individual and the neighborhood level, increase the risk of colorectal cancer (CRC) death, but little is known regarding whether CRC survival varies geographically and the extent to which area-level socioeconomic deprivation affects this geographic variat...
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PMID: 21836166
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Due to increased awareness of breast cancer resulting in early detection, there is a decreased incidence nationwide of late-stage breast cancer, including that which presents with skin involvement (T4b).
A retrospective analysis of a 10-month period from August 2007 t...
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PMID: 22046854
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Scientific American (305)1 2011
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Association of demanding kin relations, depressive symptoms, self-esteem, and optimism was assessed among 130 low-income African American women. Demanding relations with kin were positively associated with depressive symptoms and negatively linked to self-esteem and optimism. Self-esteem and optimism...
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PMID: 21787062
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Abstract Purpose Examine the effectiveness of a community-based, multimedia intervention on medication adherence among hypertensive adults. Design Randomized controlled trial. Setting Rural south Alabama. Subjects Low-income adults (N = 434) receiving medication at no charge fr...
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PMID: 21721962
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Societal expectations raise the issue of the nature of a profession and a profession's relationship with society. Influential policy leaders want reform of the oral health workforce and delivery system in such a manner as to ensure that improvements are made for accessing care, particularly for vulne...
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PMID: 21905546
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Millions of children in America suffer from poor oral health due to lack of access to dental care. The landmark U.S. Surgeon General's Report in 2000 highlighted significant disparities, yet poor oral health remains an epidemic. America's system of delivering dental care is poorly equipped to address...
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PMID: 21905544
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Community dental health (28)2 2011
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To assess the oral health status and treatment needs of older adults, living in the Valparaiso Region of Chile.
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PMID: 21780353
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Community dental health (28)2 2011
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This study aimed to quantify the extent to which socioeconomic-related inequality in self-reported oral health status among Thais is present after the country implemented the Universal Coverage policy and to decompose the determinants and their associations with inequality in self-reported oral healt...
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PMID: 21780352
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Disruptive behaviour disorders are much more common in boys than girls (Office of National Statistics, 1999); in contrast, gender differences in normative problem behaviours are poorly understood. To address this issue, 228 6-year-olds (134 boys, 94 girls) were each observed playing a board game with...
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PMID: 21592147
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We evaluated 3 sets of risk factors: hospital characteristics (safety net [as defined by hospitals caring for more than double their Medicaid share of discharges compared with other hospitals within a 15-mile radius], ownership, teaching status, system membership, ED size, case mix), county populati...
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PMID: 21586713
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Xenobiotica (41)5 2011
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Between 1998 and 2007, records from 33 patients with cutaneous diphtheria from Vancouver's inner city were reviewed. Cases were associated with injection drug use and poverty. Coinfections with Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, and Arcanobacterium haemolyticum occurred. Corynebacterium d...
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PMID: 21525220
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Assessing the effectiveness of text messages as appointment reminders in a pediatric dental setting.
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Text messaging is a dominant form of communication in our society. However, little research has been conducted to evaluate its effectiveness as an appointment reminder in the dental setting.
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PMID: 21454845
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The objective of this study was to describe the occurrence of lifetime trauma exposure in relation to perinatal health outcomes in low-income African American women.
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PMID: 18253820
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This study examines the validity of a Spanish-language dietary behaviors self-report questionnaire (The Latino Dietary Behaviors Questionnaire [LDBQ]) for Latinos with diabetes. The sample (n=252) was Spanish-speaking, female (77%), middle-aged (mean age 55 years), low education (56%
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PMID: 21443994
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We calculated the number of MyPyramid Days distributed in 1 year (2004-2005) by the Oregon Food Bank. Of the 36.4 million pounds of food analyzed, 24.2 million (66%) fell into MyPyramid (grains, fruit, vegetables, meat/beans, and milk), with the remaining categorized as condiments/baking supplies (2...
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PMID: 21443991
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Women who live in geographic areas with high poverty rates and low levels of education experience poorer survival after a breast cancer diagnosis than women who live in communities with indicators of high socioeconomic status (SES). However, very few studies have examined individual-level SES in rela...
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PMID: 21425155
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To quantify prevalence of dry mouth, association between dry mouth and beverage intake and dietary quality, and association between dry mouth and self-reported dietary accommodations to oral health deficits.
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PMID: 21391935
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Food and nutrition bulletin (32)1 Suppl 2011
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Malnutrition affects a large number of people throughout the developing world. Approaches to reducing malnutrition rarely focus on ecology and agriculture to simultaneously improve human nutrition and environmental sustainability. However, evidence suggests that interdisciplinary approaches that comb...
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PMID: 21717917
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Diarrhea and novel dietary factors emerge as predictors of serum vitamin B12 in Panamanian children.
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The role of gastrointestinal infection as a factor determining vitamin B12 status in populations with low intake of animal-source foods is unclear.
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PMID: 21560464
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To analyze survival patterns among infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) in the State of Michigan.
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PMID: 21349542
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We conducted a longitudinal mixed methods study with 53 Puerto Rican women with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or major depression to examine the cultural context of HIV risk and HIV knowledge, beliefs, and behaviors among a larger study with Puerto Rican and Mexican women with serious mental illn...
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PMID: 21327967
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Modern Healthcare (41)7 2011
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We interviewed 20 rural Appalachian residents with MM. We identified the following themes: (a) MM has multifaceted challenges and is viewed as more than the sum of its parts; (b) numerous challenges exist to optimal MM self-management, particularly in a rural, underresourced context; however, (c) pa...
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PMID: 21263063
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Annals of Internal Medicine (154)2 2011
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We undertook a multidisciplinary transversal investigation at the sites of discharge of oxic waste, from October the 19th to December the 8th, 2006, using a transect sampling methodology. This paper presents the results related to the socio-economic aspects of the survey while the environmental and...
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PMID: 21243458
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Medical Care (49)1 2011
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We compared 848 beneficiaries diagnosed with cancer during the years 2002 to 2004 with 1696 comparison cases matched on age.
With the exception of in situ cancers, the cost of cancer care continued to increase beyond the initial 6-month period. The incremental costs at 6 months after diagnosis are $...
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PMID: 21079524
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To explore the factors that encompass maternal self-efficacy in providing food for the home.
In-depth interviews were conducted with 19 mothers of nutritionally at risk children in an urban area of East Jakarta, Indonesia. This study was based on Social Cognitive Theo...
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PMID: 21094093
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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We determined the prevalence of first lifetime use of cigarettes during pregnancy or in the early postpartum period (incident smoking) and identified sociodemographic and health-related characteristics of incident smokers.
We used statistics based on data from a longitudinal study of...
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PMID: 21337931
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Public Health Reports (126)1 2011
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Public Health Reports (126 Suppl 1) 2011
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This study sought to determine whether renovating low-income housing using "green" and healthy principles improved resident health and building performance.
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PMID: 21563714
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Growing evidence suggests that experiences of financial strain and over-indebtedness can contribute to problems of physical and mental health. This article contends that there is a need to carefully examine recent neoliberally informed symbolic and material transformations in the practices and experi...
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PMID: 21842576
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[PASSI numbers: Surveillance data confirm: diabetes is associated with socio-economic disadvantage].
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Intra-urban inequalities in mortality have been infrequently analysed in European contexts. The aim of the present study was to analyse patterns of cancer mortality and their relationship with socioeconomic deprivation in small areas in 11 Spanish cities.
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PMID: 21232096
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Through a study of the history of the concepts of wealth and poverty, this paper investigates the onset of a tradition in the conceptual architecture of epidemiological research concerning social differences in mortality rates from 1858 to 1914. It raises the question as to what the...
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PMID: 21954499
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Despite well-documented efficacy, US physicians have been relatively slow to embrace the use of buprenorphine for the treatment of opioid dependence. In order to introduce and support the use of buprenorphine across the San Francisco Department of Public Health system of care, the Bu...
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PMID: 21858959
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Abstract Purpose. The main purposes of this study were to assess TV viewing among Hispanic young children and to examine effects of having a TV in the child's bedroom (TVIB). Design and Setting. A quasi-experimental design was used to evaluate an intervention program that is collecting longitudinal d...
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PMID: 21534833
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New Solutions (21)1 2011
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Agate stones have been shaped and polished into beads and other decorative items for thousands of years in Khambhat, India. Agate is a silicate quartz that produces a fine dust when shaped and polished. The people who shape and polish the stones in workshops in their homes are being sickened with sil...
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PMID: 21411429
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Patients often have difficulty understanding what randomization is and why it is needed in Phase III clinical trials. Physicians commonly report using metaphorical language to convey the role of chance in being assignment to treatment; however, the effectiveness of this strategy as an educational to...
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PMID: 21128152
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Hastings Center Report (41)2 2011
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A moral paradigm shift has been proposed for participation in health-related research. It's not just a praiseworthy option, some say; it's a social obligation. Recasting research participation in this way would have global ramifications, however. Who ultimately stands to gain the most from it, and wh...
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PMID: 21495516
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Federal Register (75)249 2010
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We are revising our regulations to incorporate changes to the Medicare prescription drug coverage low-income subsidy (Extra Help) program made by the Affordable Care Act which was enacted on March 23, 2010. Under our interpretation of section 3304 of the Affordable Care Act and this interim final ru...
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PMID: 21261125
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Food insecurity can be both a consequence and a driver of HIV/AIDS. It is often difficult to disentangle these two roles of food insecurity, since the HIV epidemic has different drivers in different settings. The advent of antiretroviral treatment in resource-limited settings adds an additional laye...
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PMID: 21214035
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HIV infection and malnutrition negatively reinforce each other.
For program guidance, to review evidence on the relationship of HIV infection and malnutrition in adults in resource-limited settings.
Adequate nutritional status supports immunity and physical performance. Weight loss, caused by low di...
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PMID: 21214036
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which will provide health insurance to nearly all U.S. citizens and improve the quality of health insurance, will particularly benefit adults ages 50 to 64, a group suffering from extended unemployment and a loss of employer health benefits. Several ea...
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PMID: 21155372
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Pediatric Annals (39)12 2010
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The Lancet (376)9755 2010
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Lack of job-based health insurance does not affect just workers, but entire families who depend on job-based coverage for their health care. This policy brief shows that in 2007 one-fifth of all Californians ages 0-64 who lived in households where at least one family member was employed did not have...
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PMID: 21548403
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We present an analysis of the relationship between pedestrian-vehicle crashes and characteristics of areas with high low-income and minority populations in the Chicago metropolitan area (also called environmental justice or EJ areas in the United States). While related research has indicated that pe...
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PMID: 20728622
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The authors examined the association between smoke-free laws and smoking/cessation behaviors and secondhand smoke exposure among current and former smokers in rural, distressed counties. A quasi-experimental, two-group design compared outcomes between participants from a county with...
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PMID: 21531965
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