Achieving Respiratory Health Equality : A United States Perspective
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41479
Juan Carlos Celedón, editor.
--Cham:
Humana Press
, 2017.
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This book addresses health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, providing a definitive reference on this prominent issue. Expert authors explore questions such as: * What is the evidence that respiratory health disparities exist? * What do we know about the causes of the disparities? * What are the clinical implications? * What can be done to address disparities and thus achieve respiratory health equality? Recognizing the magnitu…
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- Celedón, Juan Carlos
- Other Authors
- American Thoracic Society
- Responsibility
- Juan Carlos Celedón, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 205 pages) : 22 illus., 19 illus. in color
- Series Title
- Respiratory medicine
- ISBN
- 9783319434476
- 9783319434452 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2197-7372
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Health Services Accessibility
- Health Status Disparities
- Respiratory Tract Diseases
- Risk Factors
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Abstract
- This book addresses health disparities commonly encountered in pediatric and adult pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine, providing a definitive reference on this prominent issue. Expert authors explore questions such as: * What is the evidence that respiratory health disparities exist? * What do we know about the causes of the disparities? * What are the clinical implications? * What can be done to address disparities and thus achieve respiratory health equality? Recognizing the magnitude of this problem, the American Thoracic Society (ATS) Executive Committee created a Health Equality and Diversity Committee, with an initial mandate of defining respiratory health disparities and respiratory health equality in the United States. This book will follow the format of a workshop on respiratory health equality held before the 2015 ATS International Meeting and led by editor Juan Carlos Celedón. Written by the workshop presenters and other distinguished guests, this book will focus closely on major risk factors for disparities in respiratory health, and potential approaches to eliminate such disparities. Achieving Respiratory Health Equality in the United States is a timely resource for researchers, clinicians, and public health practitioners in respiratory medicine.
- Contents
- 1. Overview -- 2. Race and Ethnicity -- 3. The Influence of Social and Economic Conditions on Respiratory Health -- 4. Air Pollution and Climate Change -- 5. Migrant Health -- 6. Acculturation -- 7. The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Community and Respiratory Health -- 8. Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia -- 9. Cystic Fibrosis -- 10. Obstructive Airway Diseases -- 11. Sickle Cell Disease -- 12. Graduate Medical Education -- 13. Personalized Medicine -- 14. Health Policy: Toward Achieving Respiratory Health Equality -- 15. A Roadmap for Achieving Respiratory Health Equality.
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- e-Book
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- Online
Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44707
Amelie G. Ramirez, Edward J. Trapido, editors.
--Cham:
SpringerOpen
, c2020.
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- Open access
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- Online
This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the Mays Cancer Center and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio. Latinos – the largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group in the United States – are expected to face a 142% rise in cancer cases in coming years. Although there has been substa…
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- Ramirez, Amelie G.
- Trapido, Edward J.
- Responsibility
- Amelie G. Ramirez, Edward J. Trapido, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xvii, 329 p.) : 18 illus., 13 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030292867
- 9783030292850 (Print ed.)
- 9783030292874 (Print ed.)
- 9783030292881 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion
- Health Status Disparities
- Hispanic Americans
- Minority Health
- Neoplasms - ethnology
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Health promotion
- Oncology
- Social structure
- Social inequality
- Cancer research
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Specialty
- Population Health
- Abstract
- This open access book gives an overview of the sessions, panel discussions, and outcomes of the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference, held in February 2018 in San Antonio, Texas, USA, and hosted by the Mays Cancer Center and the Institute for Health Promotion Research at UT Health San Antonio. Latinos – the largest, youngest, and fastest-growing minority group in the United States – are expected to face a 142% rise in cancer cases in coming years. Although there has been substantial advancement in cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment over the past few decades, addressing Latino cancer health disparities has not nearly kept pace with progress. The diverse and dynamic group of speakers and panelists brought together at the Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos conference provided in-depth insights as well as progress and actionable goals for Latino-focused basic science research, clinical best practices, community interventions, and what can be done by way of prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer in Latinos. These insights have been translated into the chapters included in this compendium. The chapters summarize the presentations and include current knowledge in the specific topic areas, identified gaps, and top priority areas for future cancer research in Latinos. Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos proves to be an indispensable resource offering key insights into actionable targets for basic science research, suggestions for clinical best practices and community interventions, and novel strategies and advocacy opportunities to reduce health disparities in Latino communities. It will find an engaged audience among researchers, academics, physicians and other healthcare professionals, patient advocates, students, and others with an interest in the broad field of Latino cancer.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Advancing the Science of Cancer in Latinos -- Part II. Genetics, Environment, Lifestyle, and Cancer -- 2. Disaggregated Hispanic Groups and Cancer: Importance, Methodology and Current Knowledge -- 3. Colorectal Cancer Disparities in Latinos: Genes vs. Environment -- Part III. Cancer Risk, Prevention, and Screening -- 4. Breast Cancer Risk and Mortality in Women of Latin American Origin -- 5. Prostate Cancer in U.S. Latinos: What Have We Learned and Where Should We Focus Our Attention -- 6. Differential Cancer Risk in Latinos: The Role of Diet -- Part IV. The Biology of Cancer Health Disparities -- 7. Biomarkers of Gastric Pre-Malignant Lesions -- 8. Molecular Subtypes and Driver Mutations in Latinos with Gastric Cancer: Implications for Etiological and Translational Research -- 9. The Biology of Breast Cancer Disparities in Hispanics: Current Knowledge, Gaps and Research Opportunities -- 10. Molecular Profiles of Breast Cancer in Hispanic/Latina -- Part V. Advances in Cancer Therapy and Clinical Trials -- 11. Biomarkers and Precision Medicine in Oncology Practice and Clinical Trials -- 12. Overcoming Barriers for Latinos on Cancer Clinical Trials -- Part VI. Cancer in the Era of Precision Medicine -- 13. Breast Cancer Precision Medicine in Hispanics/Latinas: Focus on Luminal B Tumors -- 14. Is Precision Medicine Widening Cancer Care Disparities in Latino Populations? The Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey Experience -- Part VII. Cancer Outcomes and Survivorship in Latinos -- 15. A Vision for Improving Quality of Life Among Spanish-Speaking Latina Breast Cancer Survivors -- 16. Research Democracy in a Randomized Controlled Trial: Engaging Multiple Stakeholders in Patient-Centered Outcomes Research -- Part VIII. Engaging Latinos in Cancer Research -- 17. Es Tiempo: Engaging Latinas in Cervical Cancer Research -- 18. Reaching Latinos Through Social Media and SMS for Smoking Cessation -- 19. The Need for a Holistic Approach to Prevent Reproductive Cancers among US Latinas: The Potential Impact of Normalizing Sexuality and Improving Communication -- 20. Critical Steps for Engaging Hispanics in Cancer Research: Building Capacity to Enhance Participation in Biospecimen Donation with Hispanic Communities -- Part IX Charting the Future of Cancer Health Disparities Research in Latinos -- 21. Emerging Policies in US Health Care -- 22. A Way Forward: The Future of Cancer Health Disparities Research in Latinos.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Bone Health : A Reflection of the Social Mosaic
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44486
Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Jose A. Riancho, editors.
--Singapore:
Springer
, c2019.
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This multidisciplinary book addresses three lines of evidence (medieval, contemporary, and epigenetic) regarding the effect of human socio-economic status on bone health. It provides an overview of the extent to which human social background affects adult bone quality and quantity, and makes recommendations for future skeletal biology research into lifestyle-related musculoskeletal disorders. The book is divided into three major parts, the first of which discusses bone and dental health in medi…
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- Miszkiewicz, Justyna J.
- Brennan-Olsen, Sharon L.
- Riancho, Jose A.
- Responsibility
- Justyna J. Miszkiewicz, Sharon L. Brennan-Olsen, Jose A. Riancho, editors
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 186 p.) : 21 illus., 18 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9789811372568
- 9789811372551 (Print ed.)
- 9789811372575 (Print ed.)
- 9789811372582 (Print ed.)
- Specialty
- Osteology
- Abstract
- This multidisciplinary book addresses three lines of evidence (medieval, contemporary, and epigenetic) regarding the effect of human socio-economic status on bone health. It provides an overview of the extent to which human social background affects adult bone quality and quantity, and makes recommendations for future skeletal biology research into lifestyle-related musculoskeletal disorders. The book is divided into three major parts, the first of which discusses bone and dental health in medieval human skeletal remains from distinct socio-economic status groups. In turn, Part 2 reviews bone health in contemporary human populations with a range of social backgrounds; in addition, a conceptual model proposing a social gradient of osteoporosis and fracture risk related to biological mechanisms and cumulative stressors throughout the human lifecycle is presented. Lastly, Part 3 highlights the role of epigenetics in socially patterned risk factors for skeletal disorders, and discusses how epigenetic mechanisms transduce the psychosocial environment and increase the risk of developing conditions such as osteoporosis. Overall, the book highlights the importance of considering the social-biological nexus in future skeletal biology research and future treatment of bone disease. Increased awareness of this nexus can potentially improve individual and population-level bone health interventions, reducing the social inequities observed in fracture risk. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for researchers, academics, and students in the fields of medicine, epidemiology, the health sciences, biological anthropology, human anatomy and adaptation, developmental studies of human societies, human biology, and any field concerning musculoskeletal disorders and health. It will also benefit clinical practitioners evaluating osteoporosis, osteopenia, fracture risk, bone quality and quantity.
- Contents
- Part I. Medieval Perspective -- 1. Medieval English Social Inequality and Bone Health: What Lessons are There to be Learnt for the Living? -- 2. Skeletal Health in Medieval Societies: Insights from Ancient Bone Collagen Stable Isotopes and Dental Histology -- 3. Ancient Human Bone Microstructure Case Studies from Medieval England -- Part II. Contemporary Perspective -- 4. Bone Quality in Socially and Ethnically Diverse Groups: Downstream and Upstream Determinants Across the Life Course -- 5. Differences in Fracture Risk Between Countries, Within Countries and Between Social and Ethnic Groups -- 6. Social Determinants of Preventive Testing and Adherence to Treatment for Osteoporosis -- Part III. Epigenetic Perspective -- 7. Epigenetics: At the Crossroads Between Genetic and Environmental Determinants of Disease -- 8. The Influence of Maternal and Social Factors During Intrauterine Life -- 9. Postnatal Social Factors: The Epigenome and the Skeleton -- 10. The Social Context of Bone Health: Conclusions and Future Directions.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
COVID-19 in New York City : An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat46414
Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace.
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Springer
, c2021.
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- NEW Springer 2021
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This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York City spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. The context of epicenter formation determined the rapid, extreme rise of NYC case and mortality rates. Decades of public policies destructive of poor neighborhoods of color heavily determined the spread within the City. Premature mortality rates revealed the "weathering" of policy-targeted communiti…
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- Author
- Wallace, Deborah
- Other Authors
- Wallace, Rodrick
- Responsibility
- Deborah Wallace, Rodrick Wallace
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2021
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 77 p.) : 29 illus., 3 illus. in color
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9783030596248
- 9783030596231 (Print ed.)
- 9783030596255 (Print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- COVID-19 - epidemiology
- Healthcare Disparities
- Health Policy
- Health Status Disparities - ethnology
- Minority Health
- Sociology, Medical
- Other Subjects
- New York City
- Abstract
- This book is the first social epidemiological study of COVID-19 spread in New York City (NYC), the primary epicenter of the United States. New York City spread COVID-19 throughout the United States. The context of epicenter formation determined the rapid, extreme rise of NYC case and mortality rates. Decades of public policies destructive of poor neighborhoods of color heavily determined the spread within the City. Premature mortality rates revealed the "weathering" of policy-targeted communities: accelerated aging due to chronic stress. COVID attacks the elderly more severely than those under the age of 60. Communities with high proportions of prematurely aged residents proved fertile ground for COVID illness and mortality. The very public policies that created swaths of white wealth across much of Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn destroyed the human diversity needed to ride out crises. An exemplary study in health disparities, COVID-19 in New York City: An Ecology of Race and Class Oppression is essential reading for social epidemiologists, public health researchers of health disparities, those in public service tasked with addressing these problems, and infectious disease scientists who focus on spread in human populations of new zoonotic diseases. The brief also should appeal to students in these fields, civil rights scholars, science writers, medical anthropologists and sociologists, medical and public health historians, public health economists, and public policy scientists.
- Contents
- 1. Premature Death Rate Geography in New York City: Implications for COVID-19 -- 2. NYC COVID Markers at the ZIP Code Level -- 3. Prospero’s New Castles: COVID Infection and Premature Mortality in the NY Metro Region -- 4. Pandemic Firefighting vs. Pandemic Fire Prevention -- 5. Conclusion: Scales of Time in Disasters.
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- NEW Springer 2021
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
The Economics of Obesity : Poverty, Income Inequality and Health
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat41970
Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, Rata Hojjat.
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Springer
, 2017.
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This book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity. The authors explore a unique socioeconomic model that helps build the framework to understand the causes of obesity and its relation to health, science, and economics. An essential read for policy makers who are seeking a framework to addre…
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- Author
- Alavi Hojjat, Tahereh
- Other Authors
- Hojjat, Rata
- Responsibility
- Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, Rata Hojjat
- Place of Publication
- Singapore
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxviii, 84 pages) : 5 illus., 2 illus. in color
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in public health
- ISBN
- 9789811029110
- 9789811029103 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2192-3698
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Diet - adverse effects
- Health Status Disparities
- Obesity - economics
- Obesity - epidemiology
- Poverty
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Abstract
- This book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity. The authors explore a unique socioeconomic model that helps build the framework to understand the causes of obesity and its relation to health, science, and economics. An essential read for policy makers who are seeking a framework to address this problem.
- Contents
- 1. Different Perspectives on Causes of Obesity -- 2. Consequences of Obesity -- 3. Economic Analysis: Behavioral Patterns and Diet Choice -- 4. Socioeconomic Factors: Poverty and Obesity -- 5. Income Inequality and Obesity -- 6. Data and Methodology: Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Among Obesity, Income Inequality, and Poverty -- 7. Food Policy Interventions -- 8. Concluding Comments.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
eHealth Solutions for Healthcare Disparities
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28126
edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons.
--New York, NY:
Springer-Verlag
, c2008.
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- Online
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- Author
- Gibbons, Michael Christopher
- Responsibility
- edited by Michael Christopher Gibbons
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Date of Publication
- c2008
- ISBN
- 9780387728155
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Status Disparities
- Healthcare Disparities
- Medical Informatics
- Public Health Informatics
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Telemedicine
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Eliminating Healthcare Disparities in America : Beyond the IOM Report
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28451
edited by Richard Allen Williams.
--Totowa, NJ:
Humana Press
, c2007.
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- Location
- Online
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- Author
- Williams, Richard Allen
- Responsibility
- edited by Richard Allen Williams
- Place of Publication
- Totowa, NJ
- Publisher
- Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- ISBN
- 9781597454858
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Care Reform
- Health Policy
- Health Status Disparities
- Healthcare Disparities
- Quality of Health Care
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Other Subjects
- United States
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
EQ-5D Value Sets : Inventory, Comparative Review and User Guide
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28398
edited by Agota Szende, Mark Oppe, and Nancy Devlin.
--Dordrecht, Netherlands:
Springer
, c2007.
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- Online
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- Author
- Szende, Agota
- Other Authors
- Oppe, Mark
- Devlin, Nancy
- Responsibility
- edited by Agota Szende, Mark Oppe, and Nancy Devlin
- Place of Publication
- Dordrecht, Netherlands
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2007
- Series Vol.
- v. 2
- Series Title
- EuroQol Group Monographs
- ISBN
- 9781402055119
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Status Indicators
- Quality of Life
- Research Design
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Quality of Life
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Ethnic Differences in Fertility and Assisted Reproduction
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat40752
Fady I. Sharara, editor.
--New York, NY:
Springer
, c2013.
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Over the past 10 years, studies have shown that the rates of fertility vary in different ethnic groups. Ethnic differences also play a significant role in the outcome of--and access to--assisted reproductive technology. In the United States, minority groups--African Americans, Hispanics (mainly Mexicans and Central Americans), East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos) and South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, and Bengalis)--have significantly lower chances of live births compared to Cauc…
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- Other Authors
- Sharara, Fady I
- Responsibility
- Fady I. Sharara, editor
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2013
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xiv, 255 p.)
- ISBN
- 9781461475484
- 9781461475477 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Fertility
- Health Status Disparities
- Reproductive Health
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted
- Abstract
- Over the past 10 years, studies have shown that the rates of fertility vary in different ethnic groups. Ethnic differences also play a significant role in the outcome of--and access to--assisted reproductive technology. In the United States, minority groups--African Americans, Hispanics (mainly Mexicans and Central Americans), East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Filipinos) and South Asians (Indians, Pakistanis, and Bengalis)--have significantly lower chances of live births compared to Caucasian women. Birth outcome data collected by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology shows a worsening trend in conception rates between the years 1999-2000 and 2004-2006, raising more concern that the disparity in fertility rates between minority groups and white women is widening over time. Ethnic Differences in Fertility and Assisted Reproduction serves to answer the questions that arise when managing infertility in a multi-ethnic population. An expert assembly of key leaders in the field of Reproductive Medicine imparts insight and clinical experience in order to identify and analyze the possible causes of racial disparities in fertility outcome. Some of the reviewed causes include higher Body Mass Index (BMI), tubal diseases, metabolic syndrome, and fibroids in African Americans; tubal disease and higher early pregnancy loss in Hispanics; higher incidence of diminished ovarian reserve and lower BMI in East Asians; and higher incidence of polycystic ovarian disease (PCOS) in South Asians. A thoughtful combination of evidence-based medicine and advanced treatment options, this book is sure to distinguish itself as the definitive reference on ethnic differences in assisted reproduction.
- Contents
- Introduction: the scope of the topic -- Racial and ethnic groups of interest in fertility research -- The impact of socio-cultural and economic factors in seeking fertility services -- Fertility differences among ethnic groups -- Disparities between Black and White women in Assisted Reproductve Technology (ART) -- Assisted reproductive outcomes in Hispanics -- Reproductive and ART outcomes in East Asian women -- Differences in fertility and assisted reproduction in South Asian women -- Ethnicity and IVF -- Ethnic disparity in oocyte donation outcome -- Frozen embryo transfer (FET) outcomes among racial and ethnic groups -- Understanding racial disparity in adverse pregnancy outcome -- Racial diversity and uterine leiomyoma -- The effect of obesity on fertility and ART success among ethnic groups -- Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) across racial and ethnic groups -- Ethnicity and ovarian response: the role of FSH receptor genotype -- Ethnic differences in fertility and assisted reproduction: ethnic disparity in stem cell availability and research -- How can we bridge the gap? Role of insurance mandate -- Editorial: Towards a better understanding of racial disparities in utilization and outcomes of IVF treatment in the United States.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Food Poverty and Insecurity : International Food Inequalities
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39940
Martin Caraher, John Coveney, editors.
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Springer
, c2016.
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While there is not one global definition of the term "food poverty", the evidence from the chapters in this book suggest food poverty can be seen from three perspectives: 1) the causes and constraints facing both individuals, households, communities and policy makers, 2) constrained choices or the "lived experience" and 3) the health impacts or outcomes. As a working definition of food poverty, this approach suggests that where constraints are such that it is not possible for individuals or hou…
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- Other Authors
- Caraher, Martin
- Coveney, John
- Responsibility
- Martin Caraher, John Coveney, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 126 p. : 7 illus. in color)
- Series Title
- Food Policy
- ISBN
- 9783319238593
- 9783319238586 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2365-4295
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Food Supply
- Global Health
- Health Status Disparities
- Nutrition Policy
- Poverty
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Abstract
- While there is not one global definition of the term "food poverty", the evidence from the chapters in this book suggest food poverty can be seen from three perspectives: 1) the causes and constraints facing both individuals, households, communities and policy makers, 2) constrained choices or the "lived experience" and 3) the health impacts or outcomes. As a working definition of food poverty, this approach suggests that where constraints are such that it is not possible for individuals or households to consume a nutritionally adequate diet, they could be considered to be in food poverty. The modern food system has introduced new complexities to food insecurity with the growth of micro-nutrient inequalities. As a result of growing levels of poverty and inequality, hunger and obesity are not being faced by two different groups, but often by the same group. While the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over-consumption. Even in the developed world, nation states are facing the rise of modern malnutrition, which includes both over-consumption and the re-emergence of hunger: over-consumption combined with austerity. The volume undertakes a critical examination of food poverty and food security by addressing topics such as tensions over the role of the state, the movement towards rights and responsibilities around food, and the rising tide of food poverty. Auth ors also cover possible solutions at both national and city state levels. The editors conclude with a chapter that draws together the issues and locates solutions within a food policy framework of the total food system. These studies help reveal the complexities of food insecurity within a global context, with the goal of clarifying taken for granted assumptions in present discourses.
- Contents
- Food Poverty and Insecurity: The Poor in a World of Global Austerity -- Food Security Global Overview -- Food Issues Facing New and Emerging Economies of South East Asia -- The Paradox of Undernutrition and Obesity in South Africa: A Contextual Overview of Food Quality, Access and Availability in the New Democracy -- The Right to Food in India: Entitlements as Government Responsibility to Entitlements as Government Obligation -- Food Insecurity and Health Disparities: Experiences from New York City -- Creating New Links Between Agriculture And Food Aid: New Perspectives from France -- Food Banks: Big Society or Shunting Yards? Successful Failures -- The Rise of Food Inequality in Australia -- Work in Progress: Addressing Food Insecurity in Brazil -- Food Austerity; Concluding Thoughts and Reflections.
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- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat42844
Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
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This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries' capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent w…
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- Other Authors
- Malagón de Salazar, Ligia
- Luján Villar, Roberto Carlos
- Responsibility
- Ligia Malagón de Salazar, Roberto Carlos Luján Villar, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxii, 306 p.) : 46 illus., 35 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319672922
- 9783319672915 (print ed.)
- 9783319672939 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Health Status Disparities
- Healthcare Disparities
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Other Subjects
- Latin America
- Specialty
- Policy
- Sociology, Medical
- Abstract
- This book critically analyses the influence of international policies and guidelines on the performance of interventions aimed at reducing health inequities in Latin America, with special emphasis on health promotion and health in all policies strategies. While the implementation of these interventions plays a key role in strengthening these countries' capacity to respond to current and future challenges, the urgency and pressures of cooperation and funding agencies to show results consistent with their own agendas not only hampers this goal, but also makes the territory invisible, hiding the real problems faced by most Latin American countries, diminishing the richness of local knowledge production, and hindering the development of relevant proposals that consider the territory's conditions and cultural identity. Departing from this general analysis, the authors search for answers to the following questions: Why, despite the importance of the theoretical advances r egarding actions to address social and health inequities, haven't Latin American countries been able to produce the expected results? Why do successful initiatives only take place within the framework of pilot projects? Why does the ideology of health promotion and health in all policies mainly permeate structures of the health sector, but not other sectors? Why are intersectoral actions conjunctural initiatives, which often fail to evolve into permanent practices? Based on an extensive literature review, case studies, personal experiences, and interviews with key informants in the region, Globalization and Health Inequities in Latin America presents a strategy that uses monitoring and evaluation practices for enhancing the capacity of Latin American and other low and middle-income countries to implement sustainable processes to foster inclusiveness, equity, social justice and human rights.
- Contents
- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Equity, Globalization and Health -- 2. Global response to social and health inequities -- 3. Main challenges to reduce health inequities in Latin America -- Part II: Latin American Experiences -- 4. Redlacpromsa: The Latin American and Caribbean Network of Health Promotion managers -- 5. Denaturalizing "long-lasting endemic diseases": social mobilization in the context of arboviral diseases in Brazil -- 6. Health promoting schools: implementation challenges, barriers and lessons from a case study -- 7. Health in the School Program: practicing intersectoriality with territorial basis for the future of Health in all Policies. (SETP / HiP) -- 8. Strategic Analysis of Health Care Practices for Homeless in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil -- 9. Linking behavioral surveillance system to health promotion, and policy-making -- 10. Linking behavioral surveillance system to health promotion, and policy-making -- 11. La Cumbre, Valle del Cauca. The challenge of implementing sustainable territorial development. Critical factors and consequences in the reduction of inequities in health -- 12. Innovation in the small farmers' economy: good agricultural practices of Healthy Agriculture with associated rural enterprises in the Northern Cauca area in Colombia -- 13. Research in the Strategy of Healthy Communities in Mexico: Learning for the transformation of the practice against the Social Determinants of Health -- 14. Space management of health promotion: The dengue epidemic case in Perú -- Part III: Proposal -- 15. A bet for the reduction of health inequities in accordance to the conditions of the Latin American Region.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Handbook of Disease Burdens and Quality of Life Measures
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat28825
Victor R. Preedy, Ronald R. Watson (eds.).
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2010.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Preedy, Victor R.
- Watson, Ronald R.
- Responsibility
- Victor R. Preedy, Ronald R. Watson (eds.)
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2010
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Series Title
- Springer reference
- ISBN
- 9780387786650
- 9780387786643 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Cost of Illness
- Health Status Indicators
- Quality of Life
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Handbook of Healthcare in the Arab World
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44584
edited by Ismail Laher.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
- Available Online
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- Online
This handbook examines health and medical care in the Arab world from a systems biology approach. It features comprehensive coverage that includes details of key social, environmental, and cultural determinants. In addition, the contributors also investigate the developed infrastructure that manages and delivers health care and medical solutions throughout the region. More than 25 sections consider all aspects of health, from cancer to hormone replacement therapy, from the use of medications to…
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- Other Authors
- Laher, Ismail
- Responsibility
- edited by Ismail Laher
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource
- Series
- Springer reference
- ISBN
- 9783319743653
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Delivery of Health Care
- Health Services Administration
- Health Status
- Other Subjects
- Middle East
- Specialty
- Health Services Administration
- Abstract
- This handbook examines health and medical care in the Arab world from a systems biology approach. It features comprehensive coverage that includes details of key social, environmental, and cultural determinants. In addition, the contributors also investigate the developed infrastructure that manages and delivers health care and medical solutions throughout the region. More than 25 sections consider all aspects of health, from cancer to hormone replacement therapy, from the use of medications to vitamin deficiency in emergency medical care. Chapters highlight essential areas in the wellbeing and care of this population. These topics include women’s health care, displaced and refugee women’s health needs, childhood health, social and environmental causes of disease, health systems and health management, and a wide range of diseases of various body systems. This resource also explores issues related to access and barriers to health delivery throughout the region. Health in the Arab world is complex and rapidly changing. The health burden in the region is distributed unevenly based on gender, location, as well as other factors. In addition, crises such as armed conflicts and an expanding migrant population place additional stress on systems and providers at all levels. This timely resource will help readers better understand all these major issues and more. It will serve as an ideal guide for researchers in various biological disciplines, public health, and regulatory agencies.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Handbook of Life Course Health Development
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat43154
Neal Halfon, Christopher B. Forrest, Richard M. Lerner, Elaine M. Faustman, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2018.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Access
- Open access
- Location
- Online
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of health. Inte…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Responsibility
- Neal Halfon, Christopher B. Forrest, Richard M. Lerner, Elaine M. Faustman, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2018
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 664 p.) : 48 illus., 22 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783319471433
- 9783319471419 (print ed.)
- 9783319471426 (print ed.)
- 9783319836652 (print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Policy
- Health Promotion
- Health Status
- Human Development
- Life Style
- Maternal-Child Health Services
- Quality of Life
- Social Determinants of Health
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Specialty
- Health Services
- Public Health
- Social Sciences
- Abstract
- This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This handbook synthesizes and analyzes the growing knowledge base on life course health development (LCHD) from the prenatal period through emerging adulthood, with implications for clinical practice and public health. It presents LCHD as an innovative field with a sound theoretical framework for understanding wellness and disease from a lifespan perspective, replacing previous medical, biopsychosocial, and early genomic models of health. Interdisciplinary chapters discuss major health concerns (diabetes, obesity), important less-studied conditions (hearing, kidney health), and large-scale issues (nutrition, adversity) from a lifespan viewpoint. In addition, chapters address methodological approaches and challenges by analyzing existing measures, studies, and surveys. The book concludes with the editors' research agenda that proposes priorities for future LCHD research and its application to health care practice and health policy. Topics featured in the Handbook include: The prenatal period and its effect on child obesity and metabolic outcomes; Pregnancy complications and their effect on women's cardiovascular health; A multi-level approach for obesity prevention in children; Application of the LCHD framework to autism spectrum disorder; Socioeconomic disadvantage and its influence on health development across the lifespan; The importance of nutrition to optimal health development across the lifespan. The Handbook of Life Course Health Development is a must-have resource for researchers, clinicians/professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology/science; maternal and child health; social work; health economics; educational policy and politics; and medical law as well as many interrelated subdisciplines in psychology, medicine, public health, mental health, education, social welfare, economics, sociology, and law.
- Contents
- 1. Introduction to the Handbook of Life Course Health-Development Science -- SECTION I: EMERGING FRAMEWORKS -- 2. The Emerging Theoretical Framework of Life Course Health-Development -- SECTION II: LIFE STAGES -- 3. Preconception and Prenatal Factors and Metabolic Risk -- 4. Early Childhood and the Life Course: The State of the Science and Proposed Research Priorities -- 5. Middle Childhood: An Evolutionary-Developmental Synthesis -- 6. Adolescent Health: A Relational Developmental Systems Perspective -- 7. Emerging Adulthood as a Critical Stage in the Life Course -- 8. Pregnancy Characteristics and Women's Cardiovascular Health -- SECTION III: LIFE COURSE ORIGINS AND CONSEQUENCES OF MAJOR HEALTH CONDITIONS AND ISSUES -- 9. Early in the Life Course: Time for Obesity Prevention -- 10. Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes: Prevention and Treatment through a Life Course Health-Development Framework -- 11. Life Course Health-Development in Autism Spectrum Disorders -- 12. Self-Regulation -- 13. A Life Course Health-Development Perspective on Oral Health -- 14. Life Course Health-Development Outcomes after Prematurity: Developing a Community, Clinical, and Translational Research Agenda to Optimize Health, Behavior and Functioning -- 15. A Life Course Approach to Hearing Health -- 16. Chronic Kidney Disease: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective -- SECTION IV: CROSS-CUTTING TOPICS IN LIFE COURSE HEALTH-DEVELOPMENT -- 17. Growth and Life Course Health-Development -- 18. From Epidemiology to Epigenetics: Evidence for the Importance of Nutrition to Optimal Health-Development across the Life Course -- 19. How Socioeconomic Disadvantages Get Under the Skin and Into the Brain to Influence Health-Development across the Lifespan -- 20. Health Disparities: A Life Course Health-Development Perspective and Future Research Directions -- SECTION V: METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES -- 21. Core Principles of Life Course Health-Development Methodology and Analytics -- 22. Epidemiological Study Designs: Traditional and Novel Approaches to Advance Life Course Health-Development Research -- 23. Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth (NLSY) to Conduct Life Course Analyses -- 24. Using the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to Conduct Life Course Health-Development Analysis -- 25. Using the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) in Life Course Health-Development Research -- SECTION VI: FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- 26. Life Course Research Agenda (LCRA), Version 1.0.
- Access
- Open access
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health and Gender : Resilience and Vulnerability Factors For Women's Health in the Contemporary Society
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44406
Ilaria Tarricone, Anita Riecher-Rössler, editors.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective. Numerous scientific experiments and studies have shown how gender differences significantly affect the clinical presentation of physical and mental health disorders as well as responses to treatments. This text highlights these issues, while at the same time reflecting on the practical implications …
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Tarricone, Ilaria
- Riecher-Rössler, Anita
- Responsibility
- Ilaria Tarricone, Anita Riecher-Rössler, editors
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 328 p.) : 28 illus., 27 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030150389
- 9783030150372 (Print ed.)
- 9783030150396 (Print ed.)
- 9783030150402 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Status
- Psychology, Developmental
- Risk Factors
- Sex Factors
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Women's Health
- Specialty
- Health Promotion
- Social Medicine
- Women's Health
- Abstract
- This book presents a concise and comprehensive overview of the most important protective and risk factors for women's health, and reviews the main areas of medical science from a gender perspective. Numerous scientific experiments and studies have shown how gender differences significantly affect the clinical presentation of physical and mental health disorders as well as responses to treatments. This text highlights these issues, while at the same time reflecting on the practical implications of the theoretical knowledge presented. It also examines the organization of social and health services, which should increasingly take into account the specificities related to gender differences and where equality is based on truly embracing these differences. The final part provides insights into the experiences and testimonies collected by the authors of the book. Written by a multidisciplinary team of medical, psychosocial and humanities professionals, this book is of interest to health professionals and medical students.
- Contents
- Part I. Introduction -- 1. Fairness, Equality and Health: Towards a Gender-Oriented Perspective -- 2. The Woman in the History of Health -- 3. Gender Violence: Risk Factors and Social Vulnerability -- 4. Gender Violence: Protective Factors and Resilience -- Part II. The Bio-psicho-social Determinants of Health for the Women -- 5. Vulnerability and Protective Factors for Mental Health: A Rereading in Gender Perspective -- 6. Gender, Genoma, and Health -- 7. Women at Work -- 8. Women, Migration and Social Environment -- 9. For Media, “Women’s Health” Often Stands for “Beauty” -- 10. Health and Gender in Movies -- 11. Women in Music: The Case of Italian Opera -- 12. Sport and Gender -- 13. Diet and Gender -- Part III. Women’s Health at All Stages of Life -- 14. Motherhood, Childbirth and Perinatal Age -- 15. Childhood -- 16. Young Women in the “Digital Generation”—New Risks and New Opportunities -- 17. Sexual Health, LGBT, and Human Rights -- 18. Senility -- Part IV. Gender Aspects in Medical Disorders and Care -- 19. Heart and Vascular Disorders: Gender Differences in Acute Coronary Syndrome -- 20. Endocrine Disorders -- 21. Urogenital and Reproductive Disorders -- 22. Central and Peripheral Nervous Disorders -- 23. Psychiatric Disorders -- 24. Gender and Pain -- 25. The Brain-Gut Axis and the Gender -- 26. Infectious Diseases and Gender: Focus on HIV Infection -- Part V. Cure, Organization of Services and Gender -- 27. Social Services in Front of Feminine Social Disease -- 28. Primary Care -- 29. Towards Gender-Sensitive Mental Health Services -- 30. Guarantee Committee for Equal Opportunity, Employee Well-Being and Non-discrimination at Work (CUG) -- 31. Prevention of Violence and Emergency Services -- 32. When the Woman Is the Mother: The Work of Pediatrician for Caring Mothers and Children -- Part VI. Histories and Epilogues -- 33. The Association of the Teachers of the Bologna University (AdDU): A Story of Increasing Consciousness -- 34. The Vase of Flowers: A Tale for Preschool Children on Mothers’ Chemotherapy Side Effects -- 35. Women at School -- 36. When the Daughter is a Doctor.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health Assets in a Global Context : Theory, Methods, Action
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat30424
edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, Erio Ziglio.
--New York, NY:
Springer Science+Business Media
, c2010.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Author
- Morgan, Antony
- Other Authors
- Davies, Maggie
- Ziglio, Erio
- Responsibility
- edited by Antony Morgan, Maggie Davies, Erio Ziglio
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Publisher
- Springer Science+Business Media
- Date of Publication
- c2010
- ISBN
- 9781441959218
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Community Health Planning
- Health Promotion
- Health Status Disparities
- Healthcare Disparities
- Social Conditions
- Subjects (LCSH)
- Public health
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health at a glance : OECD indicators 2005
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat54682
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
(3rd ed.)
--Paris, France:
Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development | OECD Publishing
, 2005.
- Call Number
- W 74 H43345 2005
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Call Number
- W 74 H43345 2005
- Corporate Author
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Other Authors
- OECD
- Edition
- 3rd ed.
- Place of Publication
- Paris, France
- Publisher
- Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
- OECD Publishing
- Date of Publication
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 172 p. : col. ill.
- ISBN
- 9264012621
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Health Status Indicators
- Delivery of Health Care - utilization
- Health Care Costs
- Medical Economics
- Format
- Book
- Location
- IWK Health Sciences Library
- Copies
- 1
- Loan Period
- 2 weeks
Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases : An Evidence-Based Look at Causes, Conditions, and Outcomes
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44892
Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2020.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book comprehensively and thoroughly reviews the current literature regarding the impact of health disparities and socioeconomic factors on allergic diseases outcomes: such as food allergies and anaphylaxis. The morbidity associated with these conditions is significantly higher in under-privileged populations around the world, including groups who have experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic location. Health Disparities i…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Mahdavinia, Mahboobeh
- Responsibility
- Mahboobeh Mahdavinia, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2020
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (x, 230 p.) : 13 illus., 12 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030312220
- 9783030312213 (Print ed.)
- 9783030312237 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Global Health
- Health Status Disparities
- Healthcare Disparities
- Hypersensitivity
- Immune System Diseases
- Specialty
- Allergy and Immunology
- Public Health
- Abstract
- This book comprehensively and thoroughly reviews the current literature regarding the impact of health disparities and socioeconomic factors on allergic diseases outcomes: such as food allergies and anaphylaxis. The morbidity associated with these conditions is significantly higher in under-privileged populations around the world, including groups who have experienced greater social or economic obstacles to health based on racial, socioeconomic, gender, geographic location. Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases presents evidence and reviews studies from both developed and developing countries that witness health disparities in allergic disease. Concise in format, Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases: An Evidence-Based Look at Causes, Conditions, and Outcomes is made up of 11 expertly written chapters and divided into two parts. It begins with an introductory on global health through an analysis of the theoretical framework of epidemiologic transition. Subsequent chapters then review the socioeconomic and racial variables in treating allergic diseases using a multifactorial approach. Part II discusses disparities in allergic conditions, including asthma health, rhinitis and rhinosinusitis, food allergy, and atopic dermatitis. The book concludes with an exploration of potential strategies to providing solutions for asthmatic impoverished populations. Health Disparities in Allergic Diseases is a practical resource that can be used by researchers and clinicians in the field of allergy who are interested in learning about health related disparities in the context of allergic conditions or who seek solutions for this important issue.
- Contents
- PART I. Introductory Chapters -- 1. Global Health: Reimagining Perspectives -- 2. Allergic diseases in the developing world, an emerging problem or an overseen issue? -- 3. Racial and ethnic disparity in allergic diseases in the United States example of a large country with a diverse population -- 4. Disparity in access to care and its impact on diagnosis and outcomes of allergic diseases -- PART II. Disparity on allergic conditions by disease -- 5. Disparity in rhinitis and rhinosinusitis -- 6. Disparities in Food Allergy -- 7. Asthma Health Disparities -- 8. Disparity in atopic dermatitis -- PART III. Providing solutions -- 9. School-based educational programs to improve the knowledge and outcome in allergic conditions -- 10. Providing feasible solutions for an asthmatic impoverished population -- 11. Global and national networks and their role in fighting disparity in allergic diseases.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat39931
Lynn B. Gerald, Cristine E. Berry, editors.
(1st ed.)
--Cham:
Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press
, c2016.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This book discusses health disparities in respiratory medicine and suggests methods to reduce them. In the United States, health disparities are well documented in the care of patients with respiratory disorders, particularly among minorities who often have higher rates of disease and poorer health outcomes. Similarly, differences in health and health outcomes exist between differing socioeconomic groups, with lower income groups generally having poorer health and higher rates of chronic illnes…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Gerald, Lynn B
- Berry, Cristine E
- Responsibility
- Lynn B. Gerald, Cristine E. Berry, editors
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Humana Press
- Date of Publication
- c2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 364 p. : 48 illus., 18 illus. in color)
- Series Title
- Respiratory medicine
- ISBN
- 9783319236759
- 9783319236742 (print ed.)
- ISSN
- 2197-7372
- Abstract
- This book discusses health disparities in respiratory medicine and suggests methods to reduce them. In the United States, health disparities are well documented in the care of patients with respiratory disorders, particularly among minorities who often have higher rates of disease and poorer health outcomes. Similarly, differences in health and health outcomes exist between differing socioeconomic groups, with lower income groups generally having poorer health and higher rates of chronic illness. Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine investigates these differing outcomes through the complex connections between access and quality of treatment available to these groups. Chapters are organized around either causes, diseases, or types of care, including tobacco smoke exposure, environmental air quality, acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and end-of-life care. This volume is an ideal resource for pulmonologists, health care administrators, and policy makers who aim to understand disparities in respiratory medicine and take steps to improve the differences among groups.
- Contents
- Introduction to Health Disparities in Respiratory Medicine -- Health Disparities in Tobacco Smoking and Smoke Exposure -- Health Disparities Related to Environmental Air Quality -- Health Disparities in Occupational Exposures -- Health Disparities and Pulmonary Function Testing -- Health Disparities as They Relate to Medication Adherence -- Health Disparities in ARDS -- Social Disparities in Lung Growth and Respiratory Health -- Health Disparities in Asthma -- Health Disparities in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Health Disparities and Tuberculosis -- Disparities in Lung Cancer Outcomes -- Health Disparities in Critical Illness -- Health Disparities in Sleep-Related Breathing Disorders -- Health Disparities in End-of-Life Care -- Where Do We Go From Here? Improving Disparities in Respiratory Health.
- Format
- e-Book
- Location
- Online
Health Disparities : Weaving a New Understanding Through Case Narratives
https://libcat.nshealth.ca/en/permalink/provcat44657
Adam Perzynski, Sarah Shick, Ifeolorunbode Adebambo, editor.
--Cham:
Springer
, c2019.
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Location
- Online
This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand—and help correct—health disparities, both at the patient level and in their larger social contexts. Dedicated to eradicating this ongoing injustice, contributors focus on marginalized populations, the role of healthcare systems in perpetuating inequities, the need for deeper engagement and listening by professionals, and the need for advocacy within professional education and the political/policy arena. The compelling case n…
- Available Online
- View e-Book
- Other Authors
- Perzynski, Adam
- Shick, Sarah
- Adebambo, Ifeolorunbode
- Responsibility
- Adam Perzynski, Sarah Shick, Ifeolorunbode Adebambo, editor
- Place of Publication
- Cham
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date of Publication
- c2019
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 246 p.) : 25 illus., 22 illus. in color
- ISBN
- 9783030127718
- 9783030127701 (Print ed.)
- 9783030127725 (Print ed.)
- 9783030127732 (Print ed.)
- Subjects (MeSH)
- Healthcare Disparities
- Health Status Disparities
- Social Medicine
- Socioeconomic Factors
- Vulnerable Populations
- Abstract
- This uniquely accessible volume challenges professionals to understand—and help correct—health disparities, both at the patient level and in their larger social contexts. Dedicated to eradicating this ongoing injustice, contributors focus on marginalized populations, the role of healthcare systems in perpetuating inequities, the need for deeper engagement and listening by professionals, and the need for advocacy within professional education and the political/policy arena. The compelling case narratives at the core of the book illustrate the interrelated biopsychosocial components of patients’ health problems and the gradations of learning needed for practitioners to address them effectively. The book’s tools for developing a health disparities curriculum include a selection of workshop exercises, facilitator resources, and a brief guide to writing effective case narratives. A work of profound compassion, Health Disparities will be of considerable interest to researchers and practitioners interested in public health, population health, health disparities, and related fields such as sociology, social work, and narrative medicine. Its wealth of educational features also makes it a quality training text. "I was impressed when I read Health Disparities: Weaving a New Understanding through Case Narratives. As a patient who has experienced unpleasant situations in health care, I was moved to see that it was emotional and personal for the writers. The book confirms for me that the time is now for change to take place in our health care systems. I see this book as a light that can shine bright in the darkest places of health care. The editors have assembled a powerful book that provides all health professionals with specific steps they can take towards addressing and then eventually eliminating health disparities. A few steps that I really connected with were improving critical awareness, delivering quality care, listening and empathizing with patients and families, and advocating for changes. I recommend that anyone interested in working to improve health care obtain a copy of this book—it’s filled with useful information that every medical professional should know. The book reminds me of a quote by Wayne Dyer, 'When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.'" -Delores Collins, Founder and Executive Director, A Vision of Change Incorporated, Certified Community Health Worker. Founder of The Greater Cleveland Community Health Workers Association.
- Contents
- Part I. LBGT -- Part II. Race, Ethnicity and Culture -- Part III. Gender -- Part IV. Poverty -- Part V. Inequality -- Part VI. Immigration -- Part VII. Disability - Part VIII. Social Support -- Part IX. Addiction and Substance Use -- Part X. Aging -- Part XI. Technology -- Part XII. Education -- Part XIII. Mental Illness and Stigma -- Part XIV. Insurance -- Part XV. Fragmented Care -- Part XVI. Workshop, Activity and Facilitator Resources.
- Format
- e-Book
- Publication Type
- Case Reports
- Location
- Online
