Background: Research on the association between neighborhood social deprivation and health among adults with congenital heart defects (CHD) is sparse.
Methods: We evaluated the associations between neighborhood social deprivation and health care utilization, disability, and comorbidities using the population-based 2016-2019 Congenital Heart Survey To Recognize Outcomes, Needs, and well-beinG (CH STRONG) of young adults. Participants were identified from active birth defect surveillance systems in three U.
Women with disabilities are less likely to receive reproductive health counseling than women without disabilities. Yet, little is known about reproductive health counseling and concerns among women with congenital heart defects (CHD) and disabilities. We used population-based survey data from 778 women aged 19 to 38 years with CHD to examine contraceptive and pregnancy counseling and pregnancy concerns and experiences by disability status, based on six validated questions on vision, hearing, mobility, cognition, self-care, and living independently.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmong children with and without heart conditions of different race/ethnicities, upstream social determinants of health, such as socio-economic status, access to care, and healthcare utilisation, may vary. Using caregiver-reported data from the 2016-19 National Survey of Children's Health, we calculated the prevalence of caregiver employment and education, child's health insurance, usual place of medical care in the past 12 months, problems paying for child's care, ≥2 emergency room visits, and unmet healthcare needs by heart condition status and race/ethnicity (Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, and non-Hispanic White). For each outcome, we used multivariable logistic regression to generate adjusted prevalence ratios controlling for child's age and sex.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNatural disasters, such as hurricanes, often negatively affect the economic wellbeing of affected individuals. Under such conditions, women may engage in transactional sexual behaviors in order to compensate for lost income and provide for their households. In this study, we evaluated the relationship between hurricane impact and transactional sex and if this relationship was moderated, or mediated, through economic factors.
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