Health disparities in kidney transplantation for African Americans

K Harding, TB Mersha, PT Pham… - American journal of …, 2017 - karger.com
Background: The persistent challenges of bridging healthcare disparities for African
Americans (AAs) in need of kidney transplantation continue to be unresolved at the national …

Disproportionate sterilization of Latinos under California's eugenic sterilization program, 1920–1945

NL Novak, N Lira, KE O'Connor… - … journal of public …, 2018 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Objectives. To compare population-based sterilization rates between Latinas/os and non-
Latinas/os sterilized under California's eugenics law. Methods. We used data from 17 362 …

Understanding structural racism as a barrier to living donor kidney transplantation and transplant care

Y Lu, SP Norman, MD Doshi - Current Transplantation Reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Recent Findings Black and Hispanic patients carry higher burden of kidney
disease, yet have lower access to LDKT. Until recently, these differences were thought to be …

Epidemic disease and the state: Is there a tradeoff between public health and liberty?

M Koyama - Public Choice, 2023 - Springer
This paper examines the political economy of epidemic disease. First, it outlines the
incentive and information problems facing policymakers in responding to a new epidemic …

Community-engaged research: Common themes and needs identified by investigators and research teams at an emerging academic learning health system

MB Irby, KR Moore, L Mann-Jackson… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Community-engaged research (CEnR) has emerged within public health and medicine as
an approach to research designed to increase health equity, reduce health disparities, and …

Ethics and racial equity in social welfare policy: Social work's response to the COVID-19 pandemic

DB Wilson, TA Solomon… - Social Work in Public …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The COVID-19 pandemic has been particularly overwhelming for communities of color in the
United States. In addition to the higher levels of underlying health conditions, circumstances …

Racialization and reproduction: Asian immigrants and California's twentieth-Century eugenic sterilization program

M Kaniecki, NL Novak, S Gao, N Lira, TA Treviño… - Social …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
During the twentieth century, state health authorities in California recommended sterilization
for over 20,000 individuals held in state institutions. Asian immigrants occupied a …

For US Black women, shift of hysterectomy to outpatient settings may have lagged behind White women: a claims-based analysis, 2011–2013

WR Robinson, MM Cheng, AG Howard… - BMC Health Services …, 2017 - Springer
Background Hysterectomy is among the most common surgeries performed on US women.
For benign conditions, minimally invasive hysterectomy is recommended, whenever …

[HTML][HTML] Transgenerational trauma and trust restoration

F Miller, P Miller - AMA Journal of Ethics, 2021 - journalofethics.ama-assn.org
Transgenerational Trauma and Trust Restoration | Journal of Ethics | American Medical
Association Skip to main content AMA Journal of Ethics ® Illuminating the Art of Medicine Main …

Stage-based implementation of immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception using a reproductive justice framework

KD Harper, AC Loper, LM Louison, JE Morse - American Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
The immediate postpartum period is a favorable, safe, and effective time to provide long-
acting reversible contraceptives, yet it is not available widely. We describe an innovative …