Publications by authors named "Vivian Dicks"
Objectives: Co-occurring chronic diseases are associated with functional limitations, particularly for the aging population ≥50 years old. Aging offenders (individual who are imprisoned) tend to have greater prevalence of chronic, mental health, and substance use disorders compared to non-imprisoned populations. Our primary aim was to determine patterns of co-occurring conditions associated with functional limitations among aging offenders.
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- Black women, especially in the South, face higher cervical cancer incidence and mortality rates than white women, despite some reductions in these rates nationally.
- The study used SEER data to analyze cervical cancer statistics between 2000 and 2012, focusing on racial and regional differences in incidence and mortality rates.
- Findings revealed that South-NHBs had the highest incidence and US14-NHBs had the highest mortality rates, with significant disparities particularly pronounced in older age groups, indicating a troubling racial gap in cervical cancer outcomes.