AIMC Topic: Health Status Disparities

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Value of Neighborhood Socioeconomic Status in Predicting Risk of Outcomes in Studies That Use Electronic Health Record Data.

JAMA network open
IMPORTANCE: Data from electronic health records (EHRs) are increasingly used for risk prediction. However, EHRs do not reliably collect sociodemographic and neighborhood information, which has been shown to be associated with health. The added contri...

Prevalence and Disparities in Tobacco Product Use Among American Indians/Alaska Natives - United States, 2010-2015.

MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
An overarching goal of Healthy People 2020 is to achieve health equity, eliminate disparities, and improve health among all groups.* Although significant progress has been made in reducing overall commercial tobacco product use, disparities persist, ...

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Rates of Traumatic Injury in Arizona, 2011-2012.

Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the rates of traumatic injury among five racial/ethnic groups in Arizona and to identify which mechanisms and intents of traumatic injury were predominant in each group.

African-American Men with Low-Risk Prostate Cancer: Modern Treatment and Outcome Trends.

Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the clinical characteristics and treatment patterns for African-American (AA) men with low-risk prostate cancer (PCa) using a national, population-based dataset.

Improving the mapping of leisure-time physical activity inequities: the use of artificial intelligence to advance estimates of small-areas in Brazil.

Public health
OBJECTIVE: We estimated the prevalence of leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) in small areas of the city of Belo Horizonte and analyzed inequities across areas and between two time periods, 2009-2013 and 2014-2018.

Bias at warp speed: how AI may contribute to the disparities gap in the time of COVID-19.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
The COVID-19 pandemic is presenting a disproportionate impact on minorities in terms of infection rate, hospitalizations, and mortality. Many believe artificial intelligence (AI) is a solution to guide clinical decision-making for this novel disease,...

Addressing health disparities in the Food and Drug Administration's artificial intelligence and machine learning regulatory framework.

Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
The exponential growth of health data from devices, health applications, and electronic health records coupled with the development of data analysis tools such as machine learning offer opportunities to leverage these data to mitigate health disparit...

Teaching yourself about structural racism will improve your machine learning.

Biostatistics (Oxford, England)
In this commentary, we put forth the following argument: Anyone conducting machine learning in a health-related domain should educate themselves about structural racism. We argue that structural racism is a critical body of knowledge needed for gener...