Objective The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the pregnant and postpartum healthcare experiences of Black women in the United States to inform …
Introduction: Over a billion people worldwide have a disability. Disabled people experience health disparities due to ableism; this remains under-researched. Specifically, disabled emerging adults are …
Objective: Rheumatoid (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) are prevalent autoimmune pathologies qualified by a multifocal spectrum of clinical patterns, including chronic inflammation and pain. Impediments …
Background: Since racial/ethnic minorities are at higher risk of diet-related chronic disease, understanding the determinants of fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption, a known predictor of …
Background: Receiving regular HIV care is crucial for maintaining good health among persons with HIV. However, racial and gender disparities in receipt of HIV care …
Community health centers are nonprofit organizations that provide comprehensive, quality primary care services to low-income, medically underserved communities, 35% of whom were uninsured in 2013. …
Background Armed conflicts have a profound impact on population health. Directly and indirectly, conflicts impact mortality, morbidity. Understanding conflict impact on non-communicable disease is important, …
Background: Adolescent pregnancy can be medically and psychologically complicated, and birth experience can be traumatic. Literature about perinatal mental health and birth experience is predominantly …
Objectives: In recent years, emergency departments (EDs) have emerged as the primary portal of entry for hospital admission in the United States. However, the underlying …
Health disparities occur when preventable differences in the burden of disease, injury, violence, or opportunities to achieve optimal health are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations …
This paper aims to identify and analyze methodological barriers to studying the health of Arab American communities. These barriers are probed through studying the research …
Introduction: Hookah smoking is considered by many Middle Eastern, North African, and South Asian individuals to be a cultural tradition. However, research on the cultural …
Background Adults living in low income neighborhoods in the United States are at great risk for low fruit and vegetable (FV) intake and diet-related diseases. …
Broadly, about half of all individuals with mental illness have a substance use disorder (SUD) and about half of all individuals with a substance use …
Although Medicare home health is a growing industry that costs the federal government over $18 billion annually, little is known about inequities in home health …
This thesis investigates the relationship between historical redlining and the COVID-19 diagnosis rate in Rhode Island. Redlining was a practice of racial zoning in the …
Background: Substance misuse is increasingly causing health complications, social problems, death, and disability in America. Despite similarities in the prevalence of substance use disorders among …