Academic Articles & Research Papers

Automated patient and medication payment method for clinical trials

Barbara P Yawn,1 Suzanne Madison,1 Susan Bertram,1 Wilson D Pace,2 Anne Fuhlbrigge,3 Elliot Israel,3 Dawn Littlefield,1 Margary Kurland,1 Michael E Wechsler41Olmsted Medical Center, Department of Research, Rochester, MN, 2UCDHSC, Department...

Residential segregation, housing cost, and smoking behaviors in Black Americans.

Changes in Life Expectancy After Stroke Among Americans Aged 50 and Above by Sex, 1996-2018.

Structural Barriers Underlying Kidney and Liver Transplant Inequity in Hispanic Americans.

Digital Campaign to Promote COVID-19 Vaccination and Clinical Trial Participation Among Vietnamese Americans: Observational Engagement Study.

PUBLIC POLICY AND MORALITY IN TRADEMARK LAW

The existence of signs registered as trademarks (national, European, international) is necessary in the public interest, as they serve producers of goods and services and consumers alike. While any sign may in principle constitute a tradema...

World Health Statistics

IT IS a cause of rejoicing to be able to speak here today of World Health Statistics, not as one of the many desiderata still needed as a basis for a vigorous and wholesome international life, but as an accomplished fact. When we are now pr...

Explaining Prejudice Toward Americans and Europeans in Egypt: Closed-mindedness and Conservatism Mediate Effects of Religious Fundamentalism

With an Arab-Muslim sample of 160 Egyptian citizens from the greater Cairo area, we examined the role of religion in prejudice toward U.S. Americans and Europeans. When religious fundamentalism was tested concurrently with general religious...

Higher calorie intake with adequate exercise is associated with reduced mortality compared with low-calorie diet with equivalent exercise: An observational study from NHANES based on the 2020–2025 Dietary Guidelines for Americans

Object: To explore the effects of different combinations of calorie intake and exercise on all-cause, cardiovascular and cancer mortality. Methods: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) were analyzed. Weigh...

Heterogeneity in Trajectories of Body Mass Index and Their Associations with Mortality in Old Age: A Literature Review

This article reviewed studies to investigate the association between trajectories of body mass index (BMI) and mortality among older adults. Investigators conducted a systematic search of published peer-reviewed literature in the PubMed dat...

Majority Group Members' Negative Reactions to Future Demographic Shifts Depend on the Perceived Legitimacy of Their Status: Findings from the United States and Portugal

Using concepts from social identity theory (Tajfel and Turner, 1979), we examined whether racial/ethnic majority group members' reactions to future demographic shifts is a function of the degree to which they perceive their ingroup's higher...

Trans-ethnic meta-analysis identifies new loci associated with longitudinal blood pressure traits

Abstract Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) have identified thousands of genetic loci associated with cross-sectional blood pressure (BP) traits; however, GWAS based on longitudinal BP have been underexplored. We performed ethnic-specif...

Hypertension and medical informatics.

BACKGROUND: Only about 27% of Americans with hypertension have their disease under control. Hypertension in the African-American population has a higher prevalence (32%) and is less likely to be treated or controlled compared with that in t...

Squeaky wheels: Missing data, disability, and power in the smart city

Data about the accessibility of United States municipalities is infrastructure in the smart city. What is counted and how, reflects the sociotechnical imaginary (norms and values) of a time or place. In this paper we focus on features ident...

The Epidemiology and Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is an important public health problem in the United States and worldwide. The estimated 5.3 million Americans living with TBI-related disability face numerous challenges in their efforts to return to a full and ...

Americans and cybersecurity

Physical Activity and Public Health

OBJECTIVE: To encourage increased participation in physical activity among Americans of all ages by issuing a public health recommendation on the types and amounts of physical activity needed for health promotion and disease prevention. PAR...

Framing the Public Health of Caregiving

Caregiving has only recently been acknowledged by the nation as an important topic for millions of Americans. A psychological or sociological approach to care-giving services has been most often applied, with little attention to the populat...

On the use of aspect-based sentiment analysis of Twitter data to explore the experiences of African Americans during COVID-19

Abstract According to data from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as of June 2020, a significant number of African Americans had been infected with the coronavirus disease, experiencing disproportionately higher death rate...

Health Equity Journal: Special Issue Guest Editorial

The practices of contemporary clinical decision-making and care rely heavily on racial biological essentialism, which is a set of ideas originating in modern science that describes populations as comprising distinct subpopulations with uniq...