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Race, Ethnicity, and Geography as Determinants of Excessive Weight and Low Physical Activity in Pediatric Population: Protocol for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
    Yauhen StatsenkoDarya Smetanina Milos Ljubisavljevic

    Medicine, Geography

    Healthcare

  • 2024

The findings can be further used in public health surveillance to clarify the epidemiology of obesity, to guide priority setting and planning, and to develop and evaluate public health policy and strategy.

Ethnicity in neuro-oncology research: How are we doing and how can we do better?
    Asfand Baig MirzaFeras Fayez K. Ashkan

    Sociology, Medicine

    Journal of neuro-oncology

  • 2024

The underrepresentation of minorities in neuro-oncology clinical trials and the inadequately characterized impact of ethnicity on treatment outcomes highlight a critical need for more inclusive recruitment strategies and improved reporting standards.

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Maybe for unbearable suffering: Diverse racial, ethnic and cultural perspectives of assisted dying. A scoping review
    Melissa J. BloomerLaurie A. SafferJayne HewittLise JohnsDonna McAuliffeAnn Bonner

    Sociology, Medicine

    Palliative medicine

  • 2024

Understanding a person’s culture, beliefs, expectations and choices in illness, treatment goals and care is fundamental, extending beyond what may be already considered as part of clinician-patient care relationships and routine advance care planning.

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Patient-Reported Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patients With Ulcerative Colitis: Results From the National Health and Wellness Survey
    P. M. Sabree C. BurbageP. M. Kathryn L. KrupskyPhD † M. Janelle Cambron-MellottPhD Nate WayP. M. Aarti A. PatelMD MSc Julia J. Liu

    Medicine, Sociology

  • 2024

Participants with moderate/severe disease had worse outcomes than those with mild UC, and racial/ethnic differences were found in HRQoL, employment, WPAI, HCRU, and direct medical costs.

Patient-Reported and Economic Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patients with Psoriatic Arthritis: Results from the National Health and Wellness Survey
    Iris LinKathryn KrupskyNate WayAarti A. PatelArlene Tieng

    Medicine

    Rheumatology and therapy

  • 2024

Self-reported moderate/severe PsA was associated with significantly worse HRQoL and WPAI, greater HCRU, and higher costs than self-reported mild PsA, and Moderation results were driven by white participants, suggesting important differences in PROs, HCRU, and perception of PsA severity across race/ethnicity groups.

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Participant diversity in ACER: 2010-2022.
    Heather A KisselGa Hee Lee Ty Brumback

    Sociology

    Alcohol, clinical & experimental research

  • 2024

BACKGROUNDIncreasing diversity has become a priority for all fields working with human subjects due to historic exclusions and misrepresentations of participants with minoritized identities. To

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Exploring patterns of alcohol use and alcohol use disorder among Asian Americans with a finer lens.
    Haitao ZhangW. J. Ruan Aaron M. White

    Medicine, Sociology

    Drug and alcohol dependence

  • 2024
Health Inequalities in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children and Adults.
    Javier J M HowardRobson CapassoStacey L Ishman

    Medicine, Sociology

    Otolaryngologic clinics of North America

  • 2024
The Importance of Cultural Awareness in the Management of Heart Failure: A Narrative Review
    James M BeattieTeresa CastielloTiny Jaarsma

    Medicine, Sociology

    Vascular health and risk management

  • 2024

The importance of cultural awareness across a range of themes relevant to heart failure management is described and the centrality of cultural competence as the basis of appropriate care provision is emphasized.

Validating the use of body mass index with computed tomography in a racially and ethnically diverse cohort of patients admitted with SARS-CoV-2.
    Patricia SheeanP. O'Connor Perry Formanek

    Medicine

    Nutrition in clinical practice : official…

  • 2024

These findings support the routine use of applying BMI as a proxy measure of total adiposity for acutely ill patients identifying as NHW, NHB, and Hispanic and inform the validity and utility of this tool in clinical nutrition practice.

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28 References

Policy purposes of race and ethnicity: an assessment of federal racial and ethnic categories.
    J. T. Lott

    Political Science, Sociology

  • 1993

This paper examines federal standard racial and ethnic categories defined in Office of Management and Budget Statistical Directive 15. Strengths and limitations of these categories are presented in

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Use of race, ethnicity, and ancestry data in health research
    Clara LuRabeeyah AhmedA. LamriS. Anand

    Sociology, Medicine

    PLOS global public health

  • 2022

Past and current understandings of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in research are examined, the distinctions between these terms are identified, the reliability of these terms is examined, and guidance is provided on how to use these terms.

Issues regarding data on race and ethnicity: the Census Bureau experience.
    N. R. McKenneyC. Bennett

    Political Science, Sociology

    Public health reports

  • 1994

The authors describe some of the complexities of collecting and presenting data on race and ethnicity based on the experiences of the Bureau of the Census to provide comparable race and ethnic data.

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The ambiguous meanings of the racial/ethnic categories routinely used in human genetics research.
    L. HuntM. Megyesi

    Sociology, Biology

  • 2008
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White, European, Western, Caucasian, or what? Inappropriate labeling in research on race, ethnicity, and health.
    Raj BhopalLiam Donaldson

    Medicine, Sociology

    American journal of public health

  • 1998

This commentary analyzes the issue from the perspective of the epidemiology of the health of minority ethnic and racial groups in Europe and the United States and widens the debate on nomenclature for racial and ethnic groups.

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Race and ethnicity in public health surveillance: criteria for the scientific use of social categories.
    R. HahnD. Stroup

    Sociology

    Public health reports

  • 1994

Application of criteria for any useful variables collected through surveillance to race and ethnicity suggests that race as assessed in surveillance is not primarily associated with biological characteristics, but it is more like ethnicity--a matter of self-perceived membership in population groups.

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Blood Politics, Ethnic Identity, and Racial Misclassification among American Indians and Alaska Natives
    E. HaozousC. StricklandJanelle F. PalaciosT. Solomon

    History, Political Science

    Journal of environmental and public health

  • 2014

A summary of the current state of the science in racial misclassification among American Indians and Alaska Natives is provided and a historical context on the importance of this problem is provided.

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Updated Guidance on the Reporting of Race and Ethnicity in Medical and Science Journals.
    A. FlanaginTracy FreyS. Christiansen

    Medicine, Sociology

    JAMA

  • 2021

The guidance defines commonly used terms associated with race and ethnicity and acknowledges that these terms and definitions have changed, that some are out of date, and that the nomenclature will continue to evolve.

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Glossary of terms relating to ethnicity and race: for reflection and debate
    R. Bhopal

    Sociology, Medicine

    Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

  • 2004

This glossary focuses on the concepts and terminology used in the study of the health of minority ethnic and racial groups. It is hoped that it will stimulate debate on this subject so that an

  • 557
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Recommendations on the use and reporting of race, ethnicity, and ancestry in genetic research: Experiences from the NHLBI TOPMed program
    Alyna T KhanS. Gogarten S. Nelson

    Medicine

    Cell genomics

  • 2022
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