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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jack Gallifant, Molly Griffin, Robin L. Pierce, Leo Anthony Celi
Summary: Increasing awareness of health disparities has led to proposals for a pay-for-equity scheme. Implementing these proposals requires systematic methods of collecting and reporting health outcomes. A scoping review on EQIPs found that most interventions focused on race-based differences at the institutional level, utilizing multidisciplinary expertise and tools for continuous tracking of health outcomes. EQIPs can help bridge the inequality gap and form part of an incentivized systematic equality improvement framework.
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Economics
Bert van Wee
Summary: This paper proposes a conceptual model that explores the factors influencing ethical concerns regarding accessibility. The model emphasizes the idea that people should have a minimum level of access to certain destinations and considers the equity perspective of differences in accessibility levels between different groups. It includes components such as the land use system, the transport system, the individual, and the temporal component, and also factors like culture/religion, digital access options, perceived accessibility, and normative judgments.
JOURNAL OF TRANSPORT GEOGRAPHY
(2022)
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Pediatrics
Shirley A. Russ, Emily Hotez, Mary Berghaus, Clarissa Hoover, Sarah Verbiest, Edward L. Schor, Neal Halfon
Summary: This article reports on the first steps toward building a Life Course Intervention Research Framework (LCIRF) to guide researchers studying interventions to improve lifelong health. The framework sets out a detailed step-wise approach to intervention development, infused with life course intervention characteristics. The next steps involve partner engagement in framework refinement and further development.
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Education & Educational Research
Charles Sanky, Halbert Bai, Celestine He, Jacob M. Appel
Summary: This study reveals that while medical students agree that racism has no place in healthcare, they have limited knowledge of historical events and figures in the history of American race relations and civil rights. This has implications for future physicians' patient care and health equity efforts.
BMC MEDICAL EDUCATION
(2022)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Isabel B. Rodrigues, Christine Fahim, Yasmin Garad, Justin Presseau, Alison M. Hoens, Jessica Braimoh, Diane Duncan, Lora Bruyn-Martin, Sharon E. Straus
Summary: This study aims to incorporate intersectionality into implementation science by modifying the CFIR framework and developing a tool for researchers, in order to consider the impact of personal identities and power structures on behavior change and intervention implementation.
BMC MEDICAL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
(2023)
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Computer Science, Information Systems
Rupa S. Valdez, Sophie E. Lyon, Claire Wellbeloved-Stone, Mary Collins, Courtney C. Rogers, Kristine D. Cantin-Garside, Diogo Gonclaves Fortes, Chung Kim, Shaalini S. Desai, Jessica Keim-Malpass, Raja Kushalnagar
Summary: As the field of informatics expands, there is an opportunity to address health disparities by focusing on the disability community. Taking a holistic approach to disability and considering its intersections with other identities can enhance digital health technologies. The urgency for this approach is grounded in ethical, legal, and design-related reasons.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN MEDICAL INFORMATICS ASSOCIATION
(2022)
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Mathematics
Ali El Romeh, Seyedali Mirjalili
Summary: This paper introduces a hybrid cheetah exploration technique with intelligent initial configuration (HCETIIC) that optimizes exploration efficiency across different start positions. Comparative analysis with other hybrid methods demonstrates that HCETIIC consistently outperforms them, highlighting its potential to enhance efficiency in multi-robot exploration tasks.
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Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Laura Lesar, David Bruce Weaver, Sarah Gardiner
Summary: This research proposes a new framework for theoretical engagement and practical application in sustainable tourism. The framework includes 26 tools organized across three dimensions - function categories, toolboxes, and operational Fordism. This framework highlights tools for flexible post-Fordist and less flexible Fordist models of sustainable tourism.
JOURNAL OF TRAVEL RESEARCH
(2023)
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Health Care Sciences & Services
Anja Fog Heen, Per Olav Vandvik, Linn Brandt, Victor M. Montori, Lyubov Lytvyn, Gordon Guyatt, Casey Quinlan, Thomas Agoritsas
Summary: The systematic addition of practical issues to evidence summaries is feasible and can provide information for guidelines and tools for shared decision-making, enriching discussions about care alternatives.
JOURNAL OF CLINICAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
(2021)
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Environmental Sciences
Daniel L. Sax, Lorien Nesbitt, Jessica Quinton
Summary: As the understanding of green gentrification becomes obscured, this research presents an urban green gentrification framework to bring clarity to the conversation. Three main dimensions of green gentrification are identified - conceptual foundations, design and intent, and socio-spatial change - along with six related sub-dimensions. Responding to green gentrification requires considering structural influences and other drivers of gentrification, and implementing trans-dimensional strategies.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & POLICY
(2022)
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Oncology
Prajakta Adsul, Jessica Islam, Perla Chebli, Julie Kranick, Sarah Nash, Hannah Arem, Stephanie Wheeler, Melissa Lopez-Pentecost, Victoria Foster, Rashmi K. Sharma, Tisha Felder, Betsy Risendal, Enmanuel A. Chavarria, Simona Kwon, Rachel Hirschey, Chau Trinh-Shevrin
Summary: The Cancer Prevention and Control Research Network's Health Equity Work Group developed a toolkit to guide researchers in equitable collaborations in cancer research.
CANCER CAUSES & CONTROL
(2023)
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Endocrinology & Metabolism
Ana Raquel Souza de Azevedo Vieira, Lara Benigno Porto-Dantas, Flaviene Alves do Prado Romani, Patricia Souza Carvalho, Rodica Pop-Busui, Hermelinda Cordeiro Pedrosa
Summary: This study aimed to evaluate diabetic autonomic neuropathy (DAN) in people with diabetes using practical tools. The results showed a high frequency of symptomatic DAN, which was associated with factors such as age, blood sugar, and abdominal circumference. Using a digital app to assess DAN symptoms proved to be a practical and easy-to-use method, and there is a need to assess metabolic syndrome in larger samples for DAN evaluations.
DIABETOLOGY & METABOLIC SYNDROME
(2023)
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Health Policy & Services
Jane Evans, Sandra Leggat, Danny Samson
Summary: This study examined the concept of value in healthcare through a practical appraisal of a conceptual framework aimed at supporting the measurement and realization of financial benefits from process improvement activities in a hospital setting. The case study revealed that the steps described in the framework were fundamentally in place albeit with some variation. The study identified an additional step that could be added into the framework to better define hospitals' portfolio of initiatives for delivering value.
JOURNAL OF HEALTH ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
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Nursing
Tiffany Powell, Joy Bischoff, Kathleen Reddy, Sarah E. Nagy, Tonya M. Lawrence, Melissa Bates, Maggie Mccright
Summary: Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are crucial in building effective healthcare teams for quality patient care. This article highlights how two organizations designated as Pathway to Excellence used the Pathway framework to establish and support their DEIB structures based on leadership, shared decision-making, professional development, safety, quality, and well-being.
JOURNAL OF NURSING ADMINISTRATION
(2023)
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Nursing
Fay Wright, Susan Kohl Malone, Agnes Wong, Gail D'Eramo Melkus, Victoria Vaughan Dickson
Summary: The article describes successful recruitment and retention strategies used by two related studies within a P20 center focused on precision health research in diverse populations. It emphasizes the importance of flexibility, active listening, bidirectional conversations, and innovative problem solving in recruiting diverse populations.
