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Racial Disparities and Factors Affecting Michigan Colorectal Cancer Screening
ConclusionThe racial disparity in colorectal cancer screening in Michigan was explained by other characteristics. The healthcare community can work to eliminate racial disparities in colorectal cancer screening by increasing screening efforts for individuals with these characteristics.
Source: Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities - November 3, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
African-Americans live shorter lives due to heart disease and stroke
(American Heart Association) African-Americans carry a higher burden of cardiovascular diseases compared with white Americans. Risk factors for heart disease appear earlier in African-Americans than in whites. Social determinants of health, stress and cultural factors all play a role.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - October 23, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Partnering4Health: National Organizations Empowering Communities to Improve Population Health (October 2017)
Report outlines a CDC-funded effort to implement, evaluate, and disseminate evidence- and practice-based community health activities that promote health equity, leading to a 5% reduction in the rate of death and disability due to tobacco use, a 3% reduction in the prevalence of obesity, and a 3% reduction in the rates of death and disability due to diabetes, heart disease, and stroke.
Source: HSR Information Central - October 18, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Level of Agreement and Factors Associated With Discrepancies Between Nationwide Medical History Questionnaires and Hospital Claims Data.
Conclusions: Detailed patient characteristics that had an impact on information bias were identified through the differing levels of agreement.
PMID: 29020761 [PubMed - in process]
Source: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health - October 14, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: J Prev Med Public Health Source Type: research
Educational inequality in cardiovascular diseases: a sibling approach.
CONCLUSIONS: Confounding from factors shared by siblings explained the associations between education and the cardiovascular disease outcomes but to varying degrees. This should be taken into account when planning interventions aimed at reducing educational inequalities in the development of cardiovascular disease, ischaemic heart disease and stroke.
PMID: 28992724 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Scandinavian Journal of Public Health - October 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Søndergaard G, Dalton SO, Mortensen LH, Osler M Tags: Scand J Public Health Source Type: research
Economic Evaluation For Establishing Stroke Unit Followed By Early Supported Discharge In Egypt
When Stroke accounts for 6 ·4% of all deaths and thus ranks 3rd after heart disease&gastrointestinal with a crude prevalence rate of 963/100 000 inhabitants. The clinical characteristics of Egyptian stroke patients are generally similar to those in other populations. Exceptions may include the higher prevalence of vascular risk factors and a younger mean age of stroke patients (4, 18 –20). Due to those facts stroke&its complications may be one of the major economic challenges facing Egyptian health sector.
Source: Value in Health - October 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: A Abotaleb Source Type: research
IntraHealth International and Novartis Foundation Team Up to Thwart Hypertension in Senegal
Photo by Nana Kofi Acquah courtesy of the Novartis FoundationSeptember 26, 2017IntraHealth International is partnering with the Novartis Foundation, the Senegal Ministry of Health and Social Action, PATH, local health officials, community-based organizations, and other local stakeholders to address hypertension and improve cardiac health among the population of Dakar.Through the new initiative, Better Hearts Better Cities – Dakar, the ministry will test evidence-based, scalable approaches in Dakar that have the potential to thwart the rise of hypertension and othernoncommunicable diseases (NCDs) throughoutSenegal and the...
Source: IntraHealth International - September 26, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: intrahealth Source Type: news
Linear association between number of modifiable risk factors and multiple chronic conditions: Results from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
Publication date: Available online 14 September 2017 Source:Preventive Medicine Author(s): Mary L. Adams, Joseph Grandpre, David L. Katz, Douglas Shenson Multiple (≥2) chronic conditions (MCCs) are responsible for a large fraction of healthcare costs. Our aim was to examine possible associations between MCCs and composite measures of behavioral risk factors (RFs). Data were publicly available 2013 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System and included 483,865 non-institutionalized US adults ages ≥18years. Chronic conditions included asthma, arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cognitive impairment, heart...
Source: Preventive Medicine - September 15, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: research
Quick Maps of Heart Disease, Stroke, and Socio-economic Conditions
View and download maps on heart disease and stroke showing national data, health care costs, and social determinants of health data.
Source: HSR Information Central - August 1, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Has Disability Risen among the Elderly?
Disability is neither purely medical nor purely social. Rather, it is an outcome of their interplay.By Veena S. Kulkarni, Vani S. Kulkarni and Raghav GaihaNEW DELHI, Jul 31 2017 (IPS)The Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act 2016 (or RPD Act) is laudable in its intent and procedural detail, but mostly silent on disabilities among the elderly. Indeed, for this reason alone, it is arguable that its overarching goal—“The appropriate Government shall ensure that the persons with disabilities enjoy the right to equality, life with dignity and respect for his or her integrity equally with others” —is mere rhetoric, if ...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 31, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Veena Kulkarni Vani Kulkarni Tags: Aid Asia-Pacific Headlines Health Human Rights Labour TerraViva United Nations Water & Sanitation Women's Health Source Type: news
DIS-17-0023 The Enduring Health Challenges of Afghan Immigrants and Refugees in Iran: A Systematic Review
This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by the author.
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All national (MagIran, Science Information Database (SID) and Iranmedex) and international (PubMed, Scopus) databases were searched from November 2010 to November 2016 using keywords both in English and Persian: Afghan immigrants, Afghan refugees, Iran, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis B and C, non-communicable disease, food security, mental health, barriers, health insurance, access to health service. All related websites and webpages were also searched by Google with the same keywords ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - July 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: nasim Source Type: research
The Enduring Health Challenges of Afghan Immigrants and Refugees in Iran: A Systematic Review
This article does not contain any studies with human participants or animals performed by the author.
Data Availability
All national (MagIran, Science Information Database (SID) and Iranmedex) and international (PubMed, Scopus) databases were searched from November 2010 to November 2016 using keywords both in English and Persian: Afghan immigrants, Afghan refugees, Iran, infectious diseases, tuberculosis, HIV, Hepatitis B and C, non-communicable disease, food security, mental health, barriers, health insurance, access to health service. All related websites and webpages were also searched by Google with the same keywords ...
Source: PLOS Currents Disasters - July 21, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: nasim Source Type: research
Adolescent obesity linked to early mortality from cardiovascular diseases
(The Endocrine Society) While there is solid evidence that adolescent overweight and obesity are associated with coronary heart disease (CHD) and stroke, less is known about the association between body mass index (BMI) and rarer cardiovascular diseases.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 28, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Skin cell model advances study of genetic mutation linked to heart disease, stroke risk
(UT Southwestern Medical Center) Using a new skin cell model, researchers have overcome a barrier that previously prevented the study of living tissue from people at risk for early heart disease and stroke. This research could lead to a new understanding of disease progression in aortic aneurysm -- ballooning of the large artery in the chest that carries blood from the heart to the body.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 26, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Where are the new therapies for heart disease?
(Bentley University) Despite dramatic reductions in the death rate from cardiovascular disease, which includes heart disease and stroke, it remains the leading causes of death, and experts have expressed concern that the number of new therapies coming to market has lagged.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 26, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
