Heart transplantation is the best option available to treat end-stage Heart Failure (HF). There is a shortage of donor hearts in the United States even with the steady increase in the number of donors. One likely reason is the decreasing transplan...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are pervasive problems in the United States today. As many as 85% of adults report experiencing at least one adverse childhood experience (Crandall et al., 2020), and experiencing just one ACE significantly inc...
Psychology, Health services administration, Social sciences--Research
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Approximately 2.71 million people in the United States are living with chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV), which causes liver inflammation and can lead to liver damage, loss of liver function, liver cancer, and death (Centers for Disease Control and ...
Decades of discriminatory housing policies have resulted in geographic segregation, forcing low-income minorities into areas of concentrated poverty (Massey & Kanaiaupuni, 1993; Stoloff, 2004). Areas of concentrated poverty are typically marked by...
Physical activity is associated with a myriad of health benefits, yet rates of physical activity among adults in the United States remain low and traditional medical interventions often don’t address activity behavior. Despite evidence supporting ...
Mental illness is a critical public health issue, as it is not only one of the most common causes of disability, but also carries a high disease burden with regards to physical health and premature mortality. Despite the high prevalence and its ac...
The environment where a person lives impacts their health more than clinical care provided. (RWJF, 2013) This research posits that the determinants of health (DOH) are best understood as a combination of social, structural, spatial and temporal as...
About 1.1 million Americans were living with HIV in 2019 with the total lifetime cost to treat a single person with an HIV infection estimated to be around $501,000. Huge disparities in new HIV incidences exist between different geographic and dem...