Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "disparities"
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Disparities in Defining Disparities: Statistical Conceptual Frameworks
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)Motivated by the need to meaningfully implement the Institute of Medicine's (IOM's) definition of health care disparity, this paper proposes statistical frameworks that lay out explicitly the needed causal assumptions for ... -
Empirical and Normative Implications of Social Networks for Disparities: The Case of Renal Transplantation
(2013-08-28)This dissertation examines the extent to which individual-level and social network-level factors explain disparities in living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) and considers the moral implications. Paper One examines ... -
Essays on Health Care Quality and Access: Cancer Care Disparities, Composite Measure Development, and Geographic Variations in Electronic Health Record Adoption
(2014-06-06)Racial/ethnic disparities in cancer care are well documented in the research literature; however, less is known about the extent and potential source of cancer care disparities in the Veterans Health Administration (VA). ... -
Implicit Bias Among Physicians and Its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients
(Springer Verlag, 2007)Context: Studies documenting racial/ethnic disparities in health care frequently implicate physicians’ unconscious biases. No study to date has measured physicians’ unconscious racial bias to test whether this predicts ... -
Life-Course Disparities in Dementia Risk: Disentangling the Contributions of Socioeconomic Status and Vascular Risk Factors
(2022-09-09)Disproportionately high risk of dementia among racial and ethnic minorities in the U.S. has been attributed to life-course exposures to adverse conditions such as lower educational attainment, and prevention strategies ... -
Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Early Pregnancy and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Pregnancy Outcomes: Findings from the NICHD Fetal Growth Studies-Singleton Cohort
(2022-11-23)Women in the U.S. are ubiquitously exposed to a class of persistent organic pollutants known as polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), which were used as flame retardants in a variety of consumer products. Although previous ... -
Vitamin D deficiency in minority populations
(Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2014)Objective Black and Hispanic individuals synthesize less vitamin D per unit of sun exposure than white individuals. The relationship between UV radiation and vitamin D insufficiency in minorities has not been well ... -
With or Without: Empirical Analyses of Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality
(2012-12-13)The existence of unfair differences or disparities in access to and quality of health care is well known. However, the nature of disparities at different stages of the health seeking pathway and interventions to reduce ...