Poverty Areas

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A multi-city community based smoking research intervention project in the African-American population. 
  • Alcohol-Related Physical Abuse of Children in the Slums of Kampala, Uganda. 
  • Are we failing vulnerable workers? The case of black women in poultry processing in rural North Carolina. 
  • Behavioral Health Integration into Primary Care: a Microsimulation of Financial Implications for Practices. 
  • Breast cancer screening, area deprivation, and later-stage breast cancer in Appalachia: does geography matter? 
  • Common cancers in India: knowledge, attitudes and behaviours of urban slum dwellers in New Delhi. 
  • Contextual predictors of mental health service use among children open to child welfare. 
  • Direct observation of hygiene in a Peruvian shantytown: not enough handwashing and too little water. 
  • Do income level and race influence survival in patients receiving hemodialysis? 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • Does Mother Know Best? Treatment Adherence as a Function of Anticipated Treatment Benefit. 
  • Effects of Tennessee Medicaid managed care on obstetrical care and birth outcomes. 
  • Global operating theatre distribution and pulse oximetry supply: an estimation from reported data. 
  • Health Care Disparities in Cancer Patients Receiving Radiation: Changes in Insurance Status After Medicaid Expansion Under the Affordable Care Act. 
  • Hispanic Americans and the state mental hospitals in Texas: ethnic parity as a latent function of a fiscal incentive policy. 
  • Low rates of child testing for HIV persist in a high-risk area of East Africa. 
  • Making the environmental justice grade: the relative burden of air pollution exposure in the United States. 
  • Minorities, the poor, and survivors of abuse: HIV-infected patients in the US deep South. 
  • Mortality recovery and stabilization in Kazakhstan, 1995-2001. 
  • Neighborhood environments: disparities in access to healthy foods in the U.S. 
  • Neighborhood racial composition, neighborhood poverty, and the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in metropolitan Detroit. 
  • Oral misoprostol in preventing postpartum haemorrhage in resource-poor communities: a randomised controlled trial. 
  • Personal and ambient exposures to air toxics in Camden, New Jersey. 
  • Population density, distance to public transportation, and health of women in low-income neighborhoods. 
  • Provider and patient drivers of ototopical antibiotic prescription variability. 
  • Religiosity and tobacco and alcohol use in a Brazilian shantytown. 
  • The Southampton Initiative for Health: a complex intervention to improve the diets and increase the physical activity levels of women from disadvantaged communities. 
  • The association of fitness and school absenteeism across gender and poverty: a prospective multilevel analysis in New York City middle schools. 
  • The influence of neighborhood disadvantage and perceived disapproval on early substance use initiation. 
  • Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007-2014. 
  • Use of behavior change techniques in clean cooking interventions: a review of the evidence and scorecard of effectiveness. 
  • Using tailored interventions to enhance smoking cessation among African-Americans at a community health center. 
  • Youths' involvement with guns: motivation vs availability.