Use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry data in health research

C Lu, R Ahmed, A Lamri, SS Anand - PLOS Global Public Health, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Race, ethnicity, and ancestry are common classification variables used in health research.
However, there has been no formal agreement on the definitions of these terms, resulting in …

Miles to go before we sleep: Racial inequities in health

DR Williams - Journal of health and social behavior, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Large, pervasive, and persistent racial inequalities exist in the onset, courses, and outcomes
of illness. A comprehensive understanding of the patterning of racial disparities indicates …

COVID-19, mental health, and religious coping among American Orthodox Jews

S Pirutinsky, AD Cherniak, DH Rosmarin - Journal of religion and health, 2020 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic presents potential mental health challenges, and the American
Orthodox Jewish population has been particularly affected by the virus. The current study …

A systematic review of the relationships between social capital and socioeconomic inequalities in health: a contribution to understanding the psychosocial pathway of …

EP Uphoff, KE Pickett, B Cabieses, N Small… - International journal for …, 2013 - Springer
Introduction Recent research on health inequalities moves beyond illustrating the
importance of psychosocial factors for health to a more in-depth study of the specific …

Race-ethnicity, poverty, urban stressors, and telomere length in a Detroit community-based sample

AT Geronimus, JA Pearson… - Journal of health …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Residents of distressed urban areas suffer early aging-related disease and excess mortality.
Using a community-based participatory research approach in a collaboration between social …

Ageism as a risk factor for chronic disease

JO Allen - The Gerontologist, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ageism is one of the most socially condoned and institutionalized forms of prejudice in the
United States. Older adults are discriminated against in employment, health care, and other …

Towards understanding and mitigating unintended biases in language model-driven conversational recommendation

T Shen, J Li, MR Bouadjenek, Z Mai… - Information Processing & …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Conversational Recommendation Systems (CRSs) have recently started to
leverage pretrained language models (LM) such as BERT for their ability to semantically …

Mental health promotion: guidance and strategies

G Kalra, G Christodoulou, R Jenkins, V Tsipas… - European …, 2012 - cambridge.org
Public mental health incorporates a number of strategies from mental well-being promotion
to primary prevention and other forms of prevention. There is considerable evidence in the …

Does social capital buffer or exacerbate mental health inequality? Evidence from the China Family Panel Study (CFPS)

D Cao, Z Zhou, G Liu, C Shen, Y Ren, D Zhao… - International Journal for …, 2022 - Springer
Background Health inequality, including physical and mental health inequality, is an
important issue. What role social capital plays in mental health inequality is still ambiguous …

[HTML][HTML] Jedi public health: Co-creating an identity-safe culture to promote health equity

AT Geronimus, SA James, M Destin, LF Graham… - SSM-population …, 2016 - Elsevier
The extent to which socially-assigned and culturally mediated social identity affects health
depends on contingencies of social identity that vary across and within populations in day-to …