Creating Culturally Adapted Multilingual Materials for Research.

Patients who speak languages other than English are frequently excluded from research. This exclusion exacerbates inequities, biases results, and may violate federal regulations and research ethics. Language justice is the right to communicate in an individual's preferred language to address power imbalances and promote equity.

Addressing population health inequities: investing in the social determinants of health for children and families to advance child health equity.

Purpose Of Review: This review provides a critical assessment of recent pediatric population health research with a specific focus on child health equity. The review addresses: the role of the healthcare sector in addressing fundamental social drivers of health, challenges within healthcare organizations in addressing health-related social needs and the social determinants of health, and the rationale for incorporating race and racism in pediatric population health research and practice.

Recent Findings: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic brought greater attention to the disparities and inequities in American health and healthcare.

Leveraging Delivery of Blood Pressure Control Interventions among Low-income African American Adults: Opportunities to Increase Social Support and Produce Family-level Behavior Change.

Purpose: Few family-oriented cardiovascular risk reduction interventions exist that leverage the home environment to produce health behavior change among multiple family members. We identified opportunities to adapt disease self-management interventions included in a blood pressure control comparative effectiveness trial for hypertensive African American adults to address family-level factors.

Methods: We conducted and analyzed semi-structured interviews with five intervention study staff (all study interventionists and the study coordinator) between December 2016 and January 2017 and with 11 study participants between September and November 2015.

Understanding Family-Level Effects of Adult Chronic Disease Management Programs: Perceived Influences of Behavior Change on Adolescent Family Members' Health Behaviors Among Low-Income African Americans With Uncontrolled Hypertensions.

Despite improvements in cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention and treatment, low-income African Americans experience disparities in CVD-related morbidity and mortality. Childhood obesity disparities and poor diet and physical activity behaviors contribute to CVD disparities throughout the life course. Given the potential for intergenerational transmission of CVD risk, it is important to determine whether adult disease management interventions could be modified to achieve family-level benefits and improve primary prevention among high-risk youth.