- April 24, 2024Source: The Michigan Daily
Examining research on socioeconomic health disparities across Michigan
- April 16, 2024Source: Healthcare Executive
Confronting Disparities: Navigating the Path to Inclusive and Quality Healthcare
- April 03, 2024
Data equity conference brings leaders together to reduce health disparities
- March 20, 2024
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Community Health, Health Equity and Social Justice
The Yale School of Public Health is committed to addressing health disparities as well as health conditions that result from structural inequality, racism and stigma. Our research includes:
- Understanding the underlying mechanisms and interplay between risk factors that drive health inequity
- Effects of racism and stigma on health
- Examining the intersection of race, gender, class, age, health and well-being, such as the role of affordable housing as a social determinant of health
- Ways that neighborhoods shape health through social networks and geographic settings
- Influence of social networks and financial capital on health
- Social and structural interventions to improve health inequities
- Developing evidence-based models to narrow health and health care inequalities, with a focus on racial and ethnic minority populations
- Effects of public policy on access to care
- Quality and efficiency in health care systems
- Disparities in cancer outcomes
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Focus: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging
Recent Publications
2024
- Characteristics of commercial determinants of health research on corporate activities: A scoping review.Burgess RC, Nyhan K, Dharia N, Freudenberg N, Ransome Y. PLoS One. 2024; 2024 Apr 26. PMID: 38669229.
- Unveiling disparities: examining differential item functioning's impact on racial health equity among white and black populations.Villalonga-Olives E, Khademi A, Pan YY, Ransome Y. Public Health. 2024 Apr 17; 2024 Apr 17. PMID: 38636280.
- Disparities in Tuberculosis Incidence by Race and Ethnicity Among the U.S.-Born Population in the United States, 2011 to 2021 : An Analysis of National Disease Registry Data.Li Y, Regan M, Swartwood NA, Barham T, Beeler Asay GR, Cohen T, Hill AN, Horsburgh CR Jr, Khan A, Marks SM, Myles RL, Salomon JA, Self JL, Menzies NA. Ann Intern Med. 2024 Apr; 2024 Apr 2. PMID: 38560914.
- Role of Perceived Social Support in Adherence to Antihypertensives and Controlled Hypertension: Findings of a Community Survey from Urban Nepal.Bhattarai S, Wagle D, Shrestha A, Åsvold BO, Skovlund E, Sen A. Patient Prefer Adherence. 2024; 2024 Mar 26. PMID: 38558834.
- Applying Machine Learning Approach to Explore Childhood Circumstances and Self-Rated Health in Old Age - China and the US, 2020-2021.Huo S, Feng D, Gill TM, Chen X. China CDC Wkly. 2024 Mar 15. PMID: 38532746.
- Food and nutrition security definitions, constructs, frameworks, measurements, and applications: global lessons.Pérez-Escamilla R. Front Public Health. 2024; 2024 Mar 14. PMID: 38550323.
- Cost-Effectiveness of Community-Based Diet and Exercise for Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis and Obesity or Overweight.Kopp PT, Yang C, Yang H, Katz JN, Paltiel AD, Hunter DJ, Callahan LF, Mihalko SL, Newman JJ, DeVita P, Loeser RF, Miller GD, Messier SP, Losina E. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken). 2024 Mar 7; 2024 Mar 7. PMID: 38450873.
- Community Health Care Providers' Perspectives on Human Immunodeficiency Virus Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis Use Among Black Women in Eastern Virginia.Pitchford K, Shangani S, Dawson C, Masa R, Heron K. AIDS Patient Care STDS. 2024 Mar. PMID: 38471092.
- "That Was a State of Depression by Itself Dealing with Society": Atmospheric racism, mental health, and the Black and African American faith community.Desai MU, Guy K, Brown M, Thompson D, Manning B, Johnson S, Davidson L, Bellamy C. Am J Community Psychol. 2024 Mar; 2023 Apr 3. PMID: 37006193.
- Grow502: Centering Community in Medical Education via a Student-Created Organization Focused on Cultivating a Healthy Community.Udoh MO, Mian Z, Anakwenze L, Okeke C, Ziegler C, Sawning S. Health Promot Pract. 2024 Mar; 2022 Dec 13. PMID: 36511091.
- Experiences of breastfeeding peer counseling among women with low incomes in the US: a qualitative evaluation.Rhodes EC, Zahid M, Abuwala N, Damio G, LaPlant HW, Crummett C, Surprenant R, Pérez-Escamilla R. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Feb 9; 2024 Feb 9. PMID: 38336607.
- Digital Health Interventions for Hypertension Management in US Populations Experiencing Health Disparities: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Katz ME, Mszar R, Grimshaw AA, Gunderson CG, Onuma OK, Lu Y, Spatz ES. JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Feb 5; 2024 Feb 5. PMID: 38353950.
- Effects of a community-based, multi-level family planning intervention on theoretically grounded intermediate outcomes for couples in rural Uganda: Results from a mixed methods pilot evaluation.Sileo KM, Muhumuza C, Wanyenze RK, Kershaw TS, Ellerbe B, Muñoz S, Sekamatte S, Lule H, Kiene SM. Br J Health Psychol. 2024 Jan 19; 2024 Jan 19. PMID: 38242837.
- Integrating mental health into primary care in Nigeria: Implementation outcomes and clinical impact of the HAPPINESS intervention.Iheanacho T, Chu C, Aguocha CM, Nwefoh E, Dike C. Glob Ment Health (Camb). 2024; 2024 Jan 12. PMID: 38390244.
- Contextualizing the revised Patient Perception of Patient-Centeredness (PPPC-R) scale in primary healthcare settings: a validity and reliability evaluation study.Cai Y, Guo P, Tu J, Hu M, Liu L, Ryan BL, Liao J, Dev R, Li Y, Huang T, Wang R, Kuang L, Huang R, Li X, Melipillán ER, Zhao S, He W, Wang X, Zhang N, Xu DR. BMC Prim Care. 2024 Jan 5; 2024 Jan 5. PMID: 38178035.
- Online interviews for qualitative health research in Africa: a scoping review.Akyirem S, Ekpor E, Aidoo-Frimpong GA, Salifu Y, Nelson LE. Int Health. 2024 Jan 2. PMID: 36786169.
- In Support of Community Drug Checking Programs: Position Statement of AMERSA, Inc. (Association for Multidisciplinary Education and Research in Substance use and Addiction).Hill K, Dunham K, Brokos Z, Butner JL, Hull I, Sue KL, Li L, Thakarar K. Subst Use Addctn J. 2024 Jan. PMID: 38258861.
- Transformational Journey of Outcomes Research: Looking Back From the Future.Krumholz HM. Circ Cardiovasc Qual Outcomes. 2024 Jan; 2024 Jan 16. PMID: 38226473.
- Structure and Funding of Clinical Informatics Fellowships: A National Survey of Program Directors.Patel TN, Chaise AJ, Hanna JJ, Patel KP, Kochendorfer KM, Medford RJ, Mize DE, Melnick ER, Hron JD, Youens K, Pandita D, Leu MG, Ator GA, Yu F, Genes N, Baker CK, Bell DS, Pevnick JM, Conrad SA, Chandawarkar AR, Rogers KM, Kaelber DC, Singh IR, Levy BP, Finnell JT, Kannry J, Pageler NM, Mohan V, Lehmann CU. Appl Clin Inform. 2024 Jan; 2024 Jan 3. PMID: 38171383.
- Eviction as a community health exposure.Schwartz GL, Leifheit KM, Arcaya MC, Keene D. Soc Sci Med. 2024 Jan; 2023 Dec 7. PMID: 38091853.
2023
- Ethnic and racial differences in self-reported symptoms, health status, activity level, and missed work at 3 and 6 months following SARS-CoV-2 infection.O'Laughlin KN, Klabbers RE, Ebna Mannan I, Gentile NL, Geyer RE, Zheng Z, Yu H, Li SX, Chan KCG, Spatz ES, Wang RC, L'Hommedieu M, Weinstein RA, Plumb ID, Gottlieb M, Huebinger RM, Hagen M, Elmore JG, Hill MJ, Kelly M, McDonald S, Rising KL, Rodriguez RM, Venkatesh A, Idris AH, Santangelo M, Koo K, Saydah S, Nichol G, Stephens KA. Front Public Health. 2023; 2024 Jan 30. PMID: 38352132.
- A systematic review of how social connectedness influences associations between racism and discrimination on health outcomes.Ransome Y, Valido AD, Espelage DL, Clements GL, Harrell C, Eckel C, Price N, Nassau R, Nyhan K, Taggart TL. Epidemiol Rev. 2023 Dec 20. PMID: 37477041.
- Postmortem minimally invasive tissue sampling in communities: exploring perceptions of families, funeral workers, religious and community leaders and healthcare providers from Pakistan.Ahsan N, Malik FA, Mughis W, Jabeen R, Mehboob S, Allana R, Quratulain S, Jamal S, Paganelli CR, Goco N, Parlberg L, Omer SB, Kazi AM. BMC Health Serv Res. 2023 Dec 13; 2023 Dec 13. PMID: 38093318.
- Past Is Prologue: Dismantling Colonial Legacies to Advance Black Health Equity in the United States.Alang SM, Carter CR, Blackstock O. Health Equity. 2023; 2023 Dec 12. PMID: 38156053.
- Effectiveness of a group-based Diabetes Prevention Education Program (DiPEP) in a population with pre-diabetes: a cluster randomised controlled trial in Nepal.Shakya P, Shrestha A, Bajracharya M, Shrestha A, Kulseng BE, Karmacharya BM, Shrestha S, Das S, Shrestha IB, Barun K, Shrestha N, Skovlund E, Sen A. BMJ Nutr Prev Health. 2023 Dec; 2023 Nov 7. PMID: 38264365.
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Centers and other resources
- Cancer Action Prevention and Engagement (CAPE)CAPE offers support and resources for cancer-related inquiries, inviting those with experience or expertise as potential partners to join in aiding underserved groups in Connecticut.
- Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS (CIRA)CIRA provides HIV-related resources, skills, services, training, and professional networking opportunities to HIV researchers and practitioners who can contribute to advances in HIV prevention and treatment.
- Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE)CARE promotes the prevention of chronic diseases by focusing on social, environmental, and behavioral risk factors.
- InnovateHealth Yale (IHY)IHY supports the creation of innovative solutions to challenges in public health and education for underserved communities in the United States and low-resource countries.
- The Substance Abuse and Sexual Health Lab (SASH)SASH lab focuses on conducting and disseminating strengths-based youth substance use and HIV prevention research.
- Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center (PRC)The PRC works with community partners to develop and implement community-based approaches to prevent and control chronic diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.