Abstract：
:This review article discusses disparities in immunization rates for beneficiaries of the US Medicare program. The review considers: 1) historical and statistical information on rates of immunization; 2) goals set forward by the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) to eliminate racial and ethnic health disparities related to adult immunization; 3) barriers experienced by Medicare beneficiaries in receiving immunizations; 4) barriers experienced by health professionals in providing adult immunizations; and 5) CMS efforts to increase influenza and pneumococcal immunization rates and to eliminate immunization rate disparities among Medicare beneficiaries.
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Ethn Disjournal_title
Ethnicity & diseaseauthors
Farris JRkeywords:
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2005-04-01 00:00:00pages
S3-7-S3-12issue
2 Suppl 3eissn
1049-510Xissn
1945-0826journal_volume
15pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:In a sub-population of Nigerian children in the southern rain forest of Edo State, we recently observed widespread relative insensitivity to the taste of sodium chloride (NaCl-salt). This prompted the present study, in which we measured taste recognition threshold to NaCl (30, 60, 120, 180 mM) and sucrose (15, 50, 100...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The objective was to investigate how data on race and ethnicity are collected by hospitals reporting to the New Hampshire State Cancer Registry (NHSCR). METHOD:NHSCR surveyed hospitals asking how information on race and ethnicity were collected. A review of relevant legal mandates and national guidelines wa...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2005-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The inclusion of women and minorities in health research supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has received increasing attention since the adoption of related guidelines by NIH in 1990. Investigators in population-based and clinical research may need to identify and recruit research participant...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The coronavirus pandemic of 2019 (COVID-19) has created unprecedented changes to everyday life for millions of Americans due to job loss, school closures, stay-at-home orders and health and mortality consequences. In turn, physicians, academics, and policymakers have turned their attention to the public mental health ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 社论
doi：10.18865/ed.30.4.695
更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00
abstract：Objective:This article describes Mayors Mentoring Mayors (3M), an initiative of the Arkansas Coalition for Obesity Prevention (ArCOP), which expanded to five states to become the signature community initiative of the Mid-South Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (Mid-South TCC) for Health Disparities Research. Meth...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,多中心研究
doi：10.18865/ed.27.S1.347
更新日期：2017-11-09 00:00:00
abstract：:Structural racism is a multilevel system of ideologies, institutions, and processes that have created and reified racial/ethnic inequities. As a system, it works in concert across institutions to propagate racial injustice. Thus, efforts to address structural racism and its implications for health inequity require tra...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.3.381
更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00
abstract：Background:Established relationships between researchers, stakeholders and potential participants are integral for recruitment of potential older adult participants and Evidence-Based Programs (EBPs) for chronic disease management have empirically been shown to help improve health and maintain healthy and active lives....
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.30.S2.735
更新日期：2020-11-19 00:00:00
abstract：:This paper focuses on understanding the perilous effects of interpersonal and institutional racism on the psychological and physiological well-being of Blacks. Interpersonal racism refers to prejudice and discriminatory behaviors directed toward individuals because of their race or ethnicity, and institutional racism ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:Although minority populations suffer a disproportionately higher burden of tobacco-attributable morbidity and mortality, the church appears to be a promising avenue through which to pursue tobacco-cessation interventions in these communities. This report describes church-related correlates of tobacco use amo...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the 20th century, Africans in Sub-Saharan Africa had lower rates of cardiometabolic disease than Africans who migrated. However, in the 21st century, beyond infectious diseases, the triple epidemics of obesity, diabetes and hypertension have taken hold in Africa. Therefore, Africans are acquiring these chronic dise...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.18865/ed.25.3.373
更新日期：2015-08-07 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:Self Identity through Ho'oponopono is a step-by-step problem-solving approach to identify and relieve stress. The objective of this study was to determine if Self Identity through Ho'oponopono along with standard medical therapy might better control hypertension than standard therapy alone. DESIGN, SETTING, ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 临床试验,杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：:There are well-known Black-White disparities in adverse birth outcomes, health behaviors, and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These disparities hold across socioeconomic status and have remained stable for the past 50 years despite efforts to reduce them. This theoretical review argues tha...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In order to gain a better understanding of diabetes-related health disparities, Nashville REACH 2010 conducted a community baseline survey on health status. A total of 3204 randomly selected African-American (AA) and Caucasian (C) residents of North Nashville, and a comparison sample of residents living in Nashville/D...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:The safety net system remains an important part of the health care system for uninsured and minority populations, however, the closure of safety net hospitals changes the availability of care. Using community-based participatory research methods, we explored the impact of hospital closure among late middle a...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gloria Ladson-Billings cautiously promotes the use of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to address racism's contribution to educational disparities. Nearly a decade ago, we issued a similar call to the multidisciplinary field of public health. Public health touts its progressive roots and focus on equity, but do those effort...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 社论
doi：10.18865/ed.28.S1.223
更新日期：2018-08-09 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:African Americans (AA) experience a high mortality from cardiovascular disease (CVD), even without an increase in the prevalence of the metabolic syndrome (MetS). The potential role of sleep impairment in this phenomenon has not been studied. The current study examined the relationship between self-reported ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUND:HIV+ mothers of adolescent girls can serve as agents of change, particularly when it comes to preventing patterns of behaviors that are inherently dangerous. In order to do so these women need to be able to communicate with their daughters and educate them about risk behaviors, especially those associated wi...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Breast cancer incidence is significantly lower in Hispanic and black women than in non-Hispanic white women. Since diet has been suggested as an important determinant of breast cancer risk, we compared the food intake of college students sampled from these three racial-ethnic groups in New York City to evaluate the po...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose was to gain an indepth understanding of the factors influencing hypertension medication compliance among hypertensive older African Americans. DESIGN:Qualitative descriptive. In depth semistructured interviews were conducted with 28 patients. Interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed by...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To identify any differences in hospitalization rates of diabetes patients by age, sex, or race/ethnicity. DESIGN:A cross-sectional study of Georgia hospital discharge data between 1998 and 2001. PATIENTS/PARTICIPANTS:Patients with a principal discharge diagnosis of diabetes. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES:Adjusted ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:An exploratory qualitative study was undertaken in Luton to examine the issues that may underlie the severe shortage of organ donors from the United Kingdom's (UK) Asian population. To date, this subject area had not been researched within this sub-population of the UK. Thus, focus groups were employed as the initial ...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:We sought to determine if, after adjusting for economic status, race is an independent risk factor for glycemic control among diabetic patients in a large primary care patient population. DESIGN SETTING PARTICIPANTS:We performed a retrospective chart review of 264,000 primary care patients at our large, urba...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.26.1.85
更新日期：2016-01-21 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:To determine the effects of baseline cognitive function on incidence of disability in activities of daily living (ADL) in initially non-disabled Mexican-American elderly over a 7-year period. DESIGN:A prospective cohort study. SETTING:Southwestern United States: Texas, California, Arizona, New Mexico, and C...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:The REACH NOLA Mental Health Infrastructure and Training Project (MHIT) aimed to reduce disparities in access to and quality of services for depression and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in post-Katrina New Orleans by developing a mental health outreach role for community health workers (CHWs) and case...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:This study examines the correlates of self-diagnosis of chronic medical and mental health conditions in under-served minority populations. The Behavioral Model for Vulnerable Populations was employed to compare the predisposing and enabling characteristics of two groups: the first group consisted of individua...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVES:Biventricular pacing (BiV) is an important therapy for symptomatic heart failure (HF) patients with reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (EF). The aim of our study was to determine if ethnic disparities in use of BiV in HF patients with LV systolic dysfunction are independent of socioeconomic stat...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:High parity and short birth intervals among Hispanic women may deplete their folic-acid levels and place them at risk for neural tube defects (NTDs). The purposes of this study were to evaluate factors associated with multivitamin supplementation rates during the early (one to six weeks) postpartum period amo...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this article is to examine sociodemographic and health behavior factors associated with dietary intake as measured by the healthy eating index (HEI-2010) for persons with and without diabetes (T2D). DESIGN:A secondary data analysis of three NHANES data cycles spanning 2007-2012. Multiple linea...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.18865/ed.26.4.529
更新日期：2016-10-20 00:00:00
abstract：:Despite efforts focused on outreach to minority populations, the literature reveals that the problem of disparities in minority involvement in clinical research persists. Thus, the objective of this article was to present an overview of the barriers to engage minorities in human subject research and the identification...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：PURPOSE:Unique challenges exist in the provision of culturally and linguistically appropriate health care to ethnically diverse populations. The purpose of this study was to improve the metabolic control of Russian patients with diabetes through increased attention to language and cultural concordance between the provi...
journal_title：Ethnicity & disease
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：
更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00
