Publications by authors named "R Dellavalle"
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- The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study focuses on understanding the worldwide prevalence and impact of significant diseases.
- PatientsLikeMe (PLM) is an online platform where patients share their experiences, offering valuable insights into health conditions.
- A comparison of data from GBD and PLM for dermatologic conditions showed both expected demographic differences and surprising correlations, suggesting that these data sources can work together to highlight unmet patient needs and priorities.
To describe progression, content, and stringency of state legislation regulating indoor tanning and association with state government political party leadership. Trained research assistants used legal mapping methods to code legislative bills on indoor tanning introduced in US states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. We calculated composite scores on the stringency of age restrictions and of warnings, operator requirements, and enforcement.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFTikTok is a social media platform that can educate users about dermatology, but this longitudinal analysis of skin of color-related TikTok hashtags from 2021 to 2022 suggests that nondermatologist influencers continue to dominate content creation, highlighting the need for more participation from board-certified dermatologists to actively counter misinformation and address potential disparities in skin-of-color health care.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAnalyses of women dermatology literature authorship from 2018 to 2022 reveal a slight increase in total female authors, female first authors, and female senior authors with no substantial immediate impact of COVID-19 on current trends, encouraging future examination of long-term effects and ongoing promotion of systemic initiatives to support gender equity.
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