[HTML][HTML] Ethnic/racial minorities' and migrants' access to COVID-19 vaccines: A systematic review of barriers and facilitators

M Abba-Aji, D Stuckler, S Galea, M McKee - Journal of migration and health, 2022 - Elsevier
Background There are widespread concerns that ethnic minorities and migrants may have
inadequate access to COVID-19 vaccines.. Improving vaccine uptake among these …

Racial disparities in B lack men with prostate cancer: A literature review

JW Lillard Jr, KA Moses, BA Mahal, DJ George - Cancer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Black men are disproportionately affected by prostate cancer (PCa), with earlier
presentation, more aggressive disease, and higher mortality rates versus White men …

Physician–patient racial concordance and disparities in birthing mortality for newborns

BN Greenwood, RR Hardeman… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Recent work has emphasized the benefits of patient–physician concordance on clinical care
outcomes for underrepresented minorities, arguing it can ameliorate outgroup biases, boost …

The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospital admissions in the United States: study examines trends in US hospital admissions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

JD Birkmeyer, A Barnato, N Birkmeyer, R Bessler… - Health …, 2020 - healthaffairs.org
Hospital admissions in the US fell dramatically with the onset of the coronavirus disease
2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, little is known about differences in admissions …

Telemedicine and healthcare disparities: a cohort study in a large healthcare system in New York City during COVID-19

R Chunara, Y Zhao, J Chen, K Lawrence… - Journal of the …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objective Through the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, telemedicine
became a necessary entry point into the process of diagnosis, triage, and treatment. Racial …

Dissecting racial bias in an algorithm used to manage the health of populations

Z Obermeyer, B Powers, C Vogeli, S Mullainathan - Science, 2019 - science.org
Health systems rely on commercial prediction algorithms to identify and help patients with
complex health needs. We show that a widely used algorithm, typical of this industry-wide …

Patient-physician racial concordance associated with improved healthcare use and lower healthcare expenditures in minority populations

A Jetty, Y Jabbarpour, J Pollack, R Huerto… - Journal of racial and …, 2022 - Springer
Background Racial concordance between patients and clinician has been linked to
improved satisfaction and patient outcomes. Objectives (1) To examine the likelihood of …

Who do we invent for? Patents by women focus more on women's health, but few women get to invent

R Koning, S Samila, JP Ferguson - Science, 2021 - science.org
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect
what is invented. Using text analysis of all US biomedical patents filed from 1976 through …

Understanding the complexity of heart failure risk and treatment in black patients

A Nayak, AJ Hicks, AA Morris - Circulation: Heart Failure, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Although care of patients with heart failure (HF) has improved in the past decade, important
disparities in HF outcomes persist based on race/ethnicity. Age-adjusted HF-related …

[PDF][PDF] Disparities in vision health and eye care

AR Elam, VL Tseng, TM Rodriguez, EV Mike… - Ophthalmology, 2022 - Elsevier
Conclusions As we continue on the journey of addressing disparities in eye care and vision
health, it is imperative to know where we currently stand to move our field forward in an …