Pediatricians must confront community-based threats to health
...cioeconomic status and child health. Economically disadvantaged youths are more susceptible to teen pregnancy, vio...y of the unique health challenges for economically disadvantaged children and adolescents in the Rochester area and develop partnerships with community-based organiz...NCI's Patient Navigator Research Program: Questions and answers
... of medical services. The patient navigator offers disadvantaged cancer patients someone with whom they can feel comfortable; someone who has the knowledge base and confidence the patient might not possess. 5. Is the patient navigator concept in existence in communities across the country? The patient navigator...Health inequalities continue to widen, despite government rhetoric
...al groups and to raise life expectancy in the most disadvantaged areas faster than elsewhere by 2010. But the new 10-year analysis shows that inequalities in life expectancy have continued to widen in the early years of the 21st century, alongside a general trend of widening inequalities in income and wealth. Life...Nutritional advice improves health of children in developing countries
...rvices have wide coverage, especially for the most disadvantaged groups. The longterm sustainability of comprehensive efforts to improve the nutrition of infants (aged 012 months old) and young children (aged 15 years old) must still be demonstrated, but there is now clear evidence that appropriately designed inte...Men with spouses, partners, fare better after prostate cancer treatment
..., Gore and the research team focused on a severely disadvantaged group of prostate cancer patients in the study low-income and uninsured or underinsured men enrolled in IMPACT, a state-funded public assistance program created at UCLA that provides free prostate cancer care. The study participants - 211 married or...More needs to be done to tackle heart disease among South Asians
...ans, factors may include higher rates of diabetes, disadvantaged socioeconomic status, high fat diet, and lack of exercise. Evidence also shows that South Asians are less likely to be prescribed cholesterol lowering drugs and more likely to decline and drop out from cardiac rehabilitation programmes. This may par...Jimmy Buffett hosts event to benefit NYU Child Study Center
...to help children and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. Children wi...being tested in an additional 20 schools in highly disadvantaged neighborhoods with over 1,000 preschoolers and their families. "ParentCorps keeps kids out of jail a...Conflicts pitting doctors vs. patients / kin is #1 issue in medical ethics, Canadian experts say
...funded," the study says. Socially or economically disadvantaged or mentally ill patients require appropriate advocacy to ensure their needs are met. Lack of patient compliance or self-care is sometimes used as the reason to withdraw resources. Panel members say there's an ethical obligation to acknowledge and c...Study ties risk of problem gambling with proximity to casinos and other gambling opportunities
...duals who live within 10 miles of a casino or in a disadvantaged neighborhood are more likely to experience problem... society." Welte said respondents living in disadvantaged neighborhoods reported much higher rates of problem gambling than those who do not live in disadvant...Patient navigation provide tools to address barriers to care but need standardization and assessment
...resses barriers to care encountered by individual, disadvantaged patients. Programs have been developed to address these barriers at a broad range of levels of cancer care, from prevention to survival. The authors also found that while navigation programs often used similar strategies to those of social workers an...NYU Child Study Center to hold picnic for ParentCorps
...to help children and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. Picnic guests will include Liz Robbins; Allen Grubman; Benjamin Lambert; Beth Rudin DeWoody; Byron Wien; Robert Wiesenthal; Eric Ruttenberg and Perri Peltz; Steven Rubenstein; Anne Keating, Senior Vice President...NYU Child Study Center raises over $165,000 at Picnic for ParentCorps
...to help children and families from New York's most disadvantaged neighborhoods turn their lives around. In New York City alone there are 10,000 students suspended from school each year, mostly for aggressive or violent behaviors. ParentCorps' 26-week parenting program decreases aggressive behavior in preschoolers,...Obesity in kids: New research funded in W.A.
...with figures increasing steadily, especially among disadvantaged young children. "It's a very serious health issue and this is the one of the first opportunities we've had in Australia to focus on what parents need to help them reduce overweight and obesity in their young children," she said. Children who are o...Federal grant to expand MCG pipeline programs for minorities
...ege," Ms. James said. "Students with educationally disadvantaged backgrounds may not have that advantage. And, once they get to college, even if they have good academic advice, it may not be too late but it's a challenge. They really need to be exposed early on and start developing those good test-taking skills an...Aussie blokes dying for a health policy, say UWS men's health experts
...wealth of research which shows the poorer and more disadvantaged you are, the worse your health is. Often it's the blokes furthest down the ladder - the unemployed, or the mentally ill - who are in the worst position and have very little choice or influence over their circumstances. "Saying men's own behaviour is ...ASH and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation partner to launch new award program
...ch was created to assist faculty from historically disadvantaged backgrounds achieve senior rank in academic medicine. The program was recently renamed and expanded in honor of Harold Amos, Ph.D., who was the first African-American to chair a department, now the Department of Microbiology and Medical Genetics, at ...Innovate or perish? Helping developing countries fight neglected diseases
...p organize an international meeting to address how disadvantaged countries could better foster scientific and technology innovation to directly impact health issues. Conducted in Bellagio, Italy in April, the meeting led to development of the Science article. Participants concluded that the best approach for dev...SLU research on teen moms refutes conventional wisdom: Early motherhood may not ruin their lives
...en mothers have difficult childhoods and come from disadvantaged communities with poor schools so they start out with many strikes against them. There's little hope or support to finish high school or go to college. Becoming a mother is almost seen as inevitable. And once they become mothers, the lack of support f...Severe periodontal disease is more frequent among socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals
...the study shows that low-income Whites residing in disadvantaged neighborhoods had almost twice the odds of experie..., this study shows that being poor and living in a disadvantaged neighborhood increases the odds of periodontal disease among Whites only" says Dr. Borrell....Hypertension data may mask racial disparities among Hispanics
... live in social spheres that include prejudice and disadvantaged life chances, which can translate to poorer health....