Vulnerable Populations

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Skin Deep Resilience" Among Disadvantaged Blacks: Critical Questions, Elusive Answers. 
  • 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. 
  • Attitudes of elderly patients and their families toward physician-assisted suicide. 
  • Automated pain intervention for underserved minority women with breast cancer. 
  • Barriers to sexual and reproductive health care among widows in Nepal. 
  • Biospecimen Sharing Among Hispanic Women in a Safety-Net Clinic: Implications for the Precision Medicine Initiative. 
  • Brief report: Parental perceptions of child vulnerability in children with chronic illness. 
  • Cardiovascular Health Among an Underserved Population: Clinical Implications. 
  • Choosing who will be disabled: genetic intervention and the morality of inclusion. 
  • Defining and targeting health disparities in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Delays contributing to the development and repair of obstetric fistula in northern Tanzania. 
  • 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? 
  • Insurance expansions: do they hurt those they are designed to help? 
  • Intimate partner violence, depression, and resource availability among a community sample of Hispanic women. 
  • Intra-urban societal vulnerability to extreme heat: the role of heat exposure and the built environment, socioeconomics, and neighborhood stability. 
  • Invited Commentary: Integrating Genomics and Social Epidemiology-Analysis of Late-Life Low Socioeconomic Status and the Conserved Transcriptional Response to Adversity. 
  • 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. 
  • No man is an island: living in a disadvantaged neighborhood influences chronic pain development after motor vehicle collision. 
  • Nursing research and the prevention of infectious diseases among vulnerable populations. 
  • Obesity treatment for socioeconomically disadvantaged patients in primary care practice. 
  • Pediatric-Specific End-of-Life Care Quality Measures: An Unmet Need of a Vulnerable Population. 
  • Perceived barriers to mammography among underserved women in a Breast Health Center Outreach Program. 
  • 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? 
  • Psychometric evaluation of HIV risk behavior assessments using Audio Computer Assisted Self-Interviewing (ACASI) among orphans and vulnerable children in Zambia. 
  • Randomized trial on mindfulness training for smokers targeted to a disadvantaged population. 
  • Reducing CKD risks among vulnerable populations in primary care. 
  • Respiratory Compromise as a New Paradigm for the Care of Vulnerable Hospitalized Patients. 
  • Response to varying the nicotine content of cigarettes in vulnerable populations: an initial experimental examination of acute effects. 
  • Restoring balance: a consensus statement on the protection of vulnerable research participants. 
  • Sharing Data to Accelerate Medicine Development and Improve Neonatal Care: Data Standards and Harmonized Definitions. 
  • Smartphones are bad for some teens, not all. 
  • Teaching yoga to seniors: essential considerations to enhance safety and reduce risk in a uniquely vulnerable age group. 
  • The NIEHS Environmental Health Sciences Data Resource Portal: placing advanced technologies in service to vulnerable communities. 
  • The effects of rural residence and other social vulnerabilities on subjective measures of unmet need. 
  • The right to a decent minimum of health care. 
  • 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. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Dement, John McCray, Professor Emeritus in Community and Family Medicine, Community and Family Medicine, Occupational & Environmental Medicine
  • Schanberg, Laura Eve, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Rheumatology
  • Simmons, Leigh Ann, Consulting Professor in the School of Nursing, Duke Science & Society