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...
MMWR. Morbidity and mortality weekly report
Dec 22, 2017
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, ...
Public health reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974)
Aug 22, 2016
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.
Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities
Dec 16, 2014
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.
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.
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Jan 15, 2021
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,...
Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA
Dec 9, 2020
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...
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...
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