Vulnerable Populations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Skin Deep Resilience" Among Disadvantaged Blacks: Critical Questions, Elusive Answers. 
  • A new vulnerable population? The health of female partners of men recently released from prison. 
  • Adherence to Pharmacological Smoking Cessation Interventions: A Literature Review and Synthesis of Correlates and Barriers. 
  • Adverse childhood experiences among children placed in and adopted from foster care: Evidence from a nationally representative survey. 
  • Analysis of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon intake in the US adult population from NHANES 2005-2014 identifies vulnerable subpopulations, suggests interaction between tobacco smoke exposure and sociodemographic factors. 
  • Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis. 
  • Are we failing vulnerable workers? The case of black women in poultry processing in rural North Carolina. 
  • Assessing Cancer Risk Associated with Aquatic Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Pollution Reveals Dietary Routes of Exposure and Vulnerable Populations. 
  • Association Between ECG Abnormalities and Fatal Cardiovascular Disease Among Patients With and Without Severe Mental Illness. 
  • Association of Parental Incarceration With Psychiatric and Functional Outcomes of Young Adults. 
  • Association of Smartphone Ownership and Internet Use With Markers of Health Literacy and Access: Cross-sectional Survey Study of Perspectives From Project PLACE (Population Level Approaches to Cancer Elimination). 
  • Attitudes of elderly patients and their families toward physician-assisted suicide. 
  • Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among widows in Nepal. 
  • Beginning a conversation on medical futility in North Carolina. 
  • Brief Report: Classifying Rates of Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability in North Carolina: Roles of Race and Economic Disadvantage. 
  • Brief report: Parental perceptions of child vulnerability in children with chronic illness. 
  • COVID-19 and Parent-Child Psychological Well-being. 
  • Choosing Who Will be Disabled: Genetic Intervention and the Morality of Inclusion 
  • Climbing out of the black hole of subacute care. 
  • Coming unmoored: disproportionate increases in obesity prevalence among young, disadvantaged white women. 
  • Defining and targeting health disparities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Diabetes Self-management Quality Improvement Initiative for Medically Underserved Patients. 
  • Direct questioning is more effective than patient-initiated report for the detection of sexually transmitted infections in a primary care HIV clinic in Western Kenya. 
  • Disaster risk, social vulnerability, and economic development. 
  • Do religious physicians disproportionately care for the underserved? 
  • End the neglect of Black patients in US health care. 
  • Equal Opportunity and Genetic Intervention 
  • Feedbacks from human health to household reliance on natural resources during the COVID-19 pandemic. 
  • Government-NGO collaboration and sustainability of orphans and vulnerable children projects in southern Africa. 
  • Graphic Warning Labels Affect Hypothetical Cigarette Purchasing Behavior among Smokers Living with HIV. 
  • High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 
  • Hypertension Self-management in Socially Disadvantaged African Americans: the Achieving Blood Pressure Control Together (ACT) Randomized Comparative Effectiveness Trial. 
  • Immediate postpartum, long-acting reversible contraceptive use among the Emergency Medicaid population: continuation rates and satisfaction. 
  • Implementation of Vulnerable Elders Survey-13 Frailty Tool to Identify At-Risk Geriatric Surgical Patients. 
  • Implementation of a Surgical Oncology Disparities Curriculum for Preclinical Medical Students. 
  • Improving HCV Risk Assessment and Testing in a Federally Qualified Health Center Setting in Baltimore, Maryland. 
  • Insurance Expansions: Do They Hurt Those They Are Designed to Help? 
  • International Migration and Immigration Issues Related to the United States: Defining the Size and Scope of the Problem. 
  • Intimate partner violence, depression, and resource availability among a community sample of Hispanic women. 
  • Item response theory analysis of the patient satisfaction with cancer-related care measure: a psychometric investigation in a multicultural sample of 1,296 participants. 
  • Lessons Learned From Implementing Health Coaching in The Heart Healthy Lenoir Hypertension Study. 
  • Maintaining normalcy: a grounded theory of engaging in HIV-oriented primary medical care. 
  • Managed care: rationing without justice, but not unjustly. 
  • Maternal upward socioeconomic mobility and black-white disparities in infant birthweight. 
  • Midpregnancy Marriage and Divorce: Why the Death of Shotgun Marriage Has Been Greatly Exaggerated 
  • Mind-Body Approaches to Treating Mental Health Symptoms Among Disadvantaged Populations: A Comprehensive Review. 
  • Minimization of heatwave morbidity and mortality. 
  • Mobilizing Established School Partnerships to Reach Underserved Children During a Global Pandemic. 
  • National Hospital Quality Rankings: Improving the Value of Information in Hospital Rating Systems. 
  • Nationwide evidence that education disrupts the intergenerational transmission of disadvantage. 
  • Neighborhood Disadvantage is Associated with High Cytomegalovirus Seroprevalence in Pregnancy. 
  • Neighborhood Socioeconomic Disadvantage and Care After Myocardial Infarction in the National Cardiovascular Data Registry. 
  • No man is an island: living in a disadvantaged neighborhood influences chronic pain development after motor vehicle collision. 
  • Novel Models for Health Care Delivery for CKD for Disadvantaged Populations. 
  • Nursing research and the prevention of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations. 
  • Obesity treatment for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients in primary care practice. 
  • Parental Incarceration and Child Overweight: Results From a Sample of Disadvantaged Children in the United States. 
  • Pediatric-Specific End-of-Life Care Quality Measures: An Unmet Need of a Vulnerable Population. 
  • Pharmacologic studies in vulnerable populations: Using the pediatric experience. 
  • Place-Based Initiatives to Improve Health in Disadvantaged Communities: Cross-Sector Characteristics and Networks of Local Actors in North Carolina. 
  • Preparing for an influenza pandemic: are some people more equal than others? 
  • Preventing pandemics in the world's most vulnerable settings. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of HIV risk behavior assessments using Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) among orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia. 
  • Race, psychosocial vulnerability and social support differences in inner-city women's symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder. 
  • Racial differences in follow-up of abnormal mammography findings among economically disadvantaged women. 
  • Randomized trial on mindfulness training for smokers targeted to a disadvantaged population. 
  • Reducing CKD risks among vulnerable populations in primary care. 
  • Religion and Caregiving for Orphans and Vulnerable Children: A Qualitative Study of Caregivers Across Four Religious Traditions and Five Global Contexts. 
  • Respiratory Compromise as a New Paradigm for the Care of Vulnerable Hospitalized Patients. 
  • Revision joint replacement surgeries of the hip and knee across geographic region and socioeconomic status in the western region of Victoria: a cross-sectional multilevel analysis of registry data. 
  • Sharing Data to Accelerate Medicine Development and Improve Neonatal Care: Data Standards and Harmonized Definitions. 
  • Suicide mortality among youth in southern Brazil: a spatiotemporal evaluation of socioeconomic vulnerability. 
  • Teaching yoga to seniors: essential considerations to enhance safety and reduce risk in a uniquely vulnerable age group. 
  • The Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) Cardiovascular Implementation Study (CVIS): A Research Registry Integrating Social Determinants to Support Care for Underserved Patients. 
  • The Balance protocol: a pragmatic weight gain prevention randomized controlled trial for medically vulnerable patients within primary care. 
  • The Effect of a Digital Behavioral Weight Loss Intervention on Adherence to the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Dietary Pattern in Medically Vulnerable Primary Care Patients: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial. 
  • The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Data Resource Portal: placing advanced technologies in service to vulnerable communities. 
  • The Rapid Evaluation of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Departments for Underserved Patients Study. 
  • The Right to a Decent Minimum of Health Care 
  • The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. 
  • The social injustice of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. 
  • The unbearable rightness of bedside rationing. Physician duties in a climate of cost containment. 
  • Time to RE-AIM: Why Community Weight Loss Programs Should Be Included in Academic Obesity Research. 
  • Towards a common definition of global health. 
  • Track: A randomized controlled trial of a digital health obesity treatment intervention for medically vulnerable primary care patients. 
  • Transitioning from donor aid for health: perspectives of national stakeholders in Ghana. 
  • Unintended consequences of steps to cut readmissions and reform payment may threaten care of vulnerable older adults. 
  • Update on Assisted Outpatient Treatment. 
  • Vulnerable And Less Vulnerable Women In High-Deductible Health Plans Experienced Delayed Breast Cancer Care. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Family Medicine and Community Health, Family Medicine & Community Health,Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Kaufman, Brystana G., Assistant Professor in Population Health Sciences, Population Health Sciences
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Wharam, J. Franklin, Professor of Medicine, Medicine, General Internal Medicine