Comprehensive review of uterine fibroids: developmental origin, pathogenesis, and treatment

Q Yang, M Ciebiera, MV Bariani, M Ali… - Endocrine …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Uterine fibroids are benign monoclonal neoplasms of the myometrium, representing the
most common tumors in women worldwide. To date, no long-term or noninvasive treatment …

Call to action: structural racism as a fundamental driver of health disparities: a presidential advisory from the American Heart Association

K Churchwell, MSV Elkind, RM Benjamin, AP Carson… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Structural racism has been and remains a fundamental cause of persistent health disparities
in the United States. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and the police …

Black representation in the primary care physician workforce and its association with population life expectancy and mortality rates in the US

JE Snyder, RD Upton, TC Hassett, H Lee… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Studies have suggested that greater primary care physician (PCP) availability is
associated with better population health and that a diverse health workforce can improve …

Mitigating ethnic disparities in covid-19 and beyond

MS Razai, HKN Kankam, A Majeed, A Esmail… - bmj, 2021 - bmj.com
Mitigating ethnic disparities in covid-19 and beyond Page 1 Mitigating ethnic disparities in
covid-19 and beyond Although socioeconomic status partly explains ethnic disparities seen with …

Understanding how discrimination can affect health

DR Williams, JA Lawrence, BA Davis… - Health services …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background To provide an overview of the empirical research linking self‐reports of racial
discrimination to health status and health service utilization. Methods A review of literature …

Structural racism and health disparities: reconfiguring the social determinants of health framework to include the root cause

R Yearby - The Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
The government recognizes that social factors cause racial inequalities in access to
resources and opportunities that result in racial health disparities. However, this recognition …

Potential impact of COVID-19–related racial discrimination on the health of Asian Americans

JA Chen, E Zhang, CH Liu - American journal of public …, 2020 - ajph.aphapublications.org
Anti-Asian discrimination and assaults have increased significantly during the Coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, contributing to a “secondary contagion” of racism. The …

Stress and the mental health of populations of color: Advancing our understanding of race-related stressors

DR Williams - Journal of health and social behavior, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
This article provides an overview of research on race-related stressors that can affect the
mental health of socially disadvantaged racial and ethnic populations. It begins by reviewing …

Racism and health: evidence and needed research

DR Williams, JA Lawrence… - Annual review of public …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
In recent decades, there has been remarkable growth in scientific research examining the
multiple ways in which racism can adversely affect health. This interest has been driven in …

Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer Americans

LS Casey, SL Reisner, MG Findling… - Health services …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective To examine reported experiences of discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to …