Cancer health disparities in racial/ethnic minorities in the United States

VA Zavala, PM Bracci, JM Carethers… - British journal of …, 2021 - nature.com
There are well-established disparities in cancer incidence and outcomes by race/ethnicity
that result from the interplay between structural, socioeconomic, socio-environmental …

Clinical use of current polygenic risk scores may exacerbate health disparities

AR Martin, M Kanai, Y Kamatani, Y Okada, BM Neale… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Polygenic risk scores (PRS) are poised to improve biomedical outcomes via precision
medicine. However, the major ethical and scientific challenge surrounding clinical …

Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling: Study examines definitions, examples, health damages …

PA Braveman, E Arkin, D Proctor, T Kauh, N Holm - Health affairs, 2022 - healthaffairs.org
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible—often it is systemic and
structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply …

From race-based to race-conscious medicine: how anti-racist uprisings call us to act

JP Cerdeña, MV Plaisime, J Tsai - The Lancet, 2020 - thelancet.com
The brutalisation of Jacob Blake and murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud
Arbery, Tony McDade, and countless others—coupled with horrifying statistics about the …

A model of disparities: risk factors associated with COVID-19 infection

Y Rozenfeld, J Beam, H Maier, W Haggerson… - International journal for …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background By mid-May 2020, there were over 1.5 million cases of (SARS-CoV-2)
or COVID-19 across the US with new confirmed cases continuing to rise following the re …

Tractor uses local ancestry to enable the inclusion of admixed individuals in GWAS and to boost power

EG Atkinson, AX Maihofer, M Kanai, AR Martin… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Admixed populations are routinely excluded from genomic studies due to concerns over
population structure. Here, we present a statistical framework and software package, Tractor …

Addressing social determinants to improve patient care and promote health equity: an American College of Physicians position paper

H Daniel, SS Bornstein, GC Kane… - Annals of internal …, 2018 - acpjournals.org
Social determinants of health are nonmedical factors that can affect a person's overall health
and health outcomes. Where a person is born and the social conditions they are born into …

[BUKU][B] Disasters: A sociological approach

K Tierney - 2019 - books.google.com
Disasters kill, maim, and generate increasingly large economic losses. But they do not
wreak their damage equally across populations, and every disaster has social dimensions at …

Abandon “race.” Focus on racism

P Braveman, T Parker Dominguez - Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The concept of “race” emerged in the 1600s with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, justifying
slavery; it has been used to justify exploitation, denigration and decimation. Since then …

Studying individual differences in human adolescent brain development

L Foulkes, SJ Blakemore - Nature neuroscience, 2018 - nature.com
Adolescence is a period of social, psychological and biological development. During
adolescence, relationships with others become more complex, peer relationships are …