With a focus on health justice, literature review suggests possible relationships between HPV type and geography and demonstrates that insurance status matters.
AMA J Ethics. 2019;21(3):E269-272. doi:
10.1001/amajethics.2019.269.
By embracing factors such as inter-individual interactions, environmental influences, and reciprocity and feedback, agent-based modeling and complex systems approaches enable researchers to understand why race is so strong a predictor of differences in health.
LaPrincess C. Brewer, MD, MPH and Lisa A. Cooper, MD, MPH
Stressful life experience associated with racial and ethnic discrimination can have detrimental effects on the coronary and cardiovascular health of people in historically marginalized groups.
Arturo Vargas Bustamante, PhD and Philip J. Van der Wees, PhD
Cultural sensitivity training, language assistance, and diversity-oriented hiring policies can help medical organizations integrate immigrants into the American health care system.