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Tag: DEMOGRAPHY
Nursing shortage affects rural Missourians more, MU study finds
Rural Missouri counties also have highest percentage of nurses over age 54, nearing retirement
Association of Medicare Advantage star ratings with disparities in quality of care
What The Study Did: Researchers examined the associations between Medicare Advantage star ratings, which are created using data from all enrollees in a plan, and disparities in care for racial/ethnic minorities and enrollees with lower income and less education. Authors:…
Examining Diversity of Editors at Leading Medical, Scientific Journals
JAMA Internal Medicine
How different beliefs and attitudes affect college students’ career aspirations
A study published in Career Development Quarterly has looked at whether beliefs and attitudes influence career aspirations of college students with different genders and sexual orientations. Among 1,129 college students at a midwestern urban university, stronger self-efficacy beliefs–or perceptions about…
How should counselors broach topics of race, ethnicity, and culture?
It’s incumbent upon counselors to initiate or respond to clients’ concerns about racial, ethnic, and cultural issues, but guidelines lack specific instructions. An article published in the Journal of Counseling & Development provides counselors with strategies for broaching and discussing…
Study: Maternal adult characteristics do not predict stillbirth, early neonatal death
University of Illinois Chicago researchers studying birth outcomes in marmoset monkeys found there were no adult maternal characteristics like age or weight gain during pregnancy to predict stillbirth or early neonatal death, but that a mother’s birth weight or litter…
Gap between death rates in rural and urban areas tripled during past two decades
Discrepancy driven primarily by an increase in death rates in middle-aged white people. Death rates among Black people remained highest overall, however, gap with those of white people halved
Associations of race/ethnicity and food insecurity with COVID-19 infection rates
What The Study Did: The findings of this observational study of the association of race/ethnicity with COVID-19 infection rates and the interaction of pre-COVID experiences of food insecurity suggest that the association varied over time and across racial/ethnic groups. Authors:…
Patient characteristics, subsequent health care use of SARS-CoV-2 testing initiation in safety-net health system
What The Study Did: Researchers found differences in sociodemographic and clinical characteristics by entry location for SARS- CoV-2 testing within a safety-net health system. White and English-speaking individuals disproportionately initiated testing via telehealth visits, while Black, Native American and non-English-speaking…
Springer Nature and LYRASIS announce open access sponsorship agreement for books
Springer Nature and LYRASIS announce open access sponsorship agreement for books that support research and teaching aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Guided digital skills training enhances older people’s digital skills and social relations
Older people need digital skills training to learn to use digital technology more independently, but they also seek digital training opportunities because of the social benefits they offer, according to a recent study from the University of Eastern Finland. Published…
‘Asian American’: A rallying cry that united Asians in the 1960s but is it still relevant?
How Asian Americans’ public policy opinions are divided by generation and national origin, especially on immigration
Gender bias is real for women in family-owned businesses
Study examining gender bias and family-owned businesses found daughters received much less support than sons
Fifty years of progress in women’s health
Chronicling major points of progress in women’s health
Cultural, belief system data can inform gray wolf recovery efforts in US
Humans regularly exert a powerful influence on the survival and persistence of species, yet social-science information is used only sporadically in conservation decisions. Researchers at Colorado State University and The Ohio State University have created an index depicting the mix…
No evidence that the shift to farming made males and females more physically similar
Genomic study finds that natural selection is not changing the size and shape of the sexes
Study finds age doesn’t affect perception of ‘speech-to-song illusion’
LAWRENCE — A strange thing sometimes happens when we listen to a spoken phrase again and again: It begins to sound like a song. This phenomenon, called the “speech-to-song illusion,” can offer a window into how the mind operates and…
People of color twice as likely to die after traumatic brain injury, new study finds
OHSU co-authors say findings are a call to address structural racism throughout society
Gender differences exist even among university students’ wage expectations
Though both male and female students have optimistic wage expectations compared to actual wages of similar graduates, when given information about actual wages, women tended to decrease their expectations–while men actually increased their expectations
Transgender teens may turn to substance use to cope with stress
Over half of transgender or gender minority (GM) adolescents engage in substance use, seemingly as a coping strategy in response to GM stressors, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Sabra L.…
Income level, literacy, and access to health care rarely reported in clinical trials
Clinical trials published in high-profile medical journals rarely report on income or other key sociodemographic characteristics of study participants, according to a new study that suggests these gaps may create blind spots when it comes to health care, especially for…
Lundquist investigators in global study expanding genomic research of different ancestries
Paper in Nature Genetics: Genome-wide meta-analysis shows that research into different ancestries leads to better results and better care
Ethnic diversity helps identify more genomic regions linked to diabetes-related traits
By including multi-ethnic participants, a largescale genetic study has identified more regions of the genome linked to type 2 diabetes-related traits than if the research had been conducted in Europeans alone.
Data from 45 million mobile users further shows poorer people less able to stay at home COVID rules
Low earners generally either simply can’t afford to stay at home, or work in professions in which working from home is not possible
Behavioural study to understand mass cooperation awarded €2.5 million
A new study to understand when and why people are prepared to cooperate and act in the interest of others, rather than themselves, has been awarded €2.5 million by the European Research Council (ERC). The Covid-19 pandemic and global warming…
Books on health, economic inequalities in Latin America, Caribbean shed light on content, impact of health policies
More than 500,000 people have died from COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean, demonstrating the health and economic inequalities throughout the region. A new article analyzes seven books* that discuss these inequalities, including questions of who gets health care…
Sleep warning for older men
Disruption or change can mean cognitive decline
Even among the insured, cost may delay follow up care for cancer survivors
Even among a large group of cancer survivors who were mostly insured, college educated and had annual incomes above the national average, up to 10% delayed care in the previous 12 months because they simply could not afford out of…
Can racial identity protect black teens from racism-related stress? It’s complicated
A recent study finds that the vast majority of Black adolescents have experienced racism, that they experience anticipatory stress about experiencing racism again, and that their racial identity can influence that stress in a variety of ways. “We know that…
Overdose-associated cardiac arrests during COVID-19 pandemic
What The Study Did: T his study included data from more than 11,000 emergency medical services (EMS) agencies in 49 states to describe racial/ethnic, social and geographic changes in EMS-observed overdose-associated cardiac arrests during the COVID-19 pandemic through 2020 in…
Reporting of race, sex, socioeconomic status in randomized clinical trials in medical journals
What The Study Did: Researchers compared reporting practices for race, sex and socioeconomic status in randomized clinical trials published in general medical journals in 2015 with those published in 2019. Authors: Asad Siddiqui, M.D., of the Hospital for Sick Children…
States’ developmental disability services lacking for adults with autism and their families
National Autism Indicators Report: Families of autistic adults who use Developmental Disability services face gaps in services and supports, lack of emergency planning and barriers to community participation.
States’ developmental disability services lacking for autistic adults and their families
National Autism Indicators Report: Families of autistic adults who use Developmental Disability services face gaps in services and supports, lack of emergency planning and barriers to community participation.
Using virtual reality to improve interracial interactions and diversify STEM
Lehigh’s Valerie Jones Taylor has been awarded a $1.79 M National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to demonstrate the effectiveness of virtual reality as a training tool to improve interracial interactions and aid in diversifying the STEM pipeline
Socioeconomic, racial inequities in breast cancer screening during pandemic in Washington state
What The Study Did: Researchers used clinical data to examine differences in breast cancer screenings before and during the COVID-19 pandemic overall and among sociodemographic groups. Data included completed screening mammograms within a large statewide nonprofit community health care system…
Study reveals inequities in breast cancer screening during COVID-19 pandemic
Women of color, rural women disproportionally affected by missed screening mammograms
Study on intermittency in gang membership underscores value of preventing youth from rejoining gangs
Research has shown that joining a gang is associated with increased criminal behavior. A new study examined whether the intermittent nature of gang membership affects offending. Researchers sought to determine whether the association with increased offending was a consistent attribute…
Provenance: How an object’s origin can facilitate authentic, inclusive storytelling
Archivists assess, collect and preserve various artifacts and archive them to better understand their origin and cultural heritage.
Self-affirmation can help Black med students achieve residency goals
Study aims to address lack of representation in the medical profession
Bringing sexy back: What Australian men and women find attractive in a potential mate
When it comes to sexual attraction, women rate age, education, intelligence, income, trust, and emotion connection higher than men who put a greater priority on attractiveness and physical build says new research from QUT.
Penn nursing-led Philly team awarded $1.4 million NIH grant to expand COVID-19 outreach
Collaboration includes Penn Medicine, Annenberg School for Communication, The City of Philadelphia department of public health, and Philly Counts
New study explores digitally native, but technologically illiterate students
The UToledo researchers recommend three methods to prepare business students in the classroom to create versus consume and have a less difficult time adjusting to full-time employment
Racial/ethnic diversity among OBGYN, surgical, nonsurgical residents
What The Study Did: Researchers evaluated racial and ethnic diversity among obstetrics and gynecology, surgical and nonsurgical residents in the United States from 2014 to 2019. Authors: Claudia L. Lopez, M.D., of the University of California, Davis, is the corresponding…
Racial/ethnic representation among departmental chairs in academic medicine
What The Study Did: Racial and ethnic representation among departmental chairs and faculty in academic medicine in the United States from 1980 to 2019 was examined in this study. Authors: Darrion Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., of the Ohio State University James…
Socioeconomic disadvantage, long-term outcomes after heart attack
What The Study Did: Registry data were used to examine the association between living in a socioeconomically disadvantaged area and long-term survival among patients who had their first heart attack at or before age 50. Authors: Ron Blankstein, M.D., of…
Racial, ethnic disparities in glaucoma clinical trials
What The Study Did: Demographic information from 105 randomized clinical trials for primary open-angle glaucoma was combined to compare the rate of participation between individuals from racial/ethnic minority groups with white individuals. Authors: Deepkumar G. Patel, D.D.S., M.P.H., of New…
Conn. medication-assisted opioid treatment programs retain patients at higher rates
Medication-assisted treatment, or MAT, is an important tool in the ongoing fight against opioid use dependence in the United States. Employing certain medications in combination with counseling and behavioral therapy, MAT offers a comprehensive, “whole-patient” approach to addressing opioid use.…
WVU researchers find disparities for COVID-19 testing and positivity rates
Issues were identified in Black communities and in areas with food insecurity in West Virginia
Living in megacities
A new focus in English linguistics