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Gerontologist
January 2025
School of Aging Studies, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, USA.
Background And Objectives: To better understand racial/ethnic disparities in hearing aid use, we examined racial differences in discrepancies between subjective hearing ratings and objective hearing tests as a potential source of this disparity.
Research Design And Methods: A cross-sectional assessment was conducted using the data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS). Our analytic sample included 2,568 participants aged 50 and older: 1,814 non-Hispanic White Americans and 754 non-Hispanic Black Americans.
BMC Public Health
January 2025
Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy (CSHIIP), Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) Greater Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Background: Permanent supportive housing (PSH) is an evidence-based practice for reducing homelessness that subsidizes permanent, independent housing and provides case management-including linkages to health services. Substance use disorders (SUDs) are common contributing factors towards premature, unwanted ("negative") PSH exits; little is known about racial/ethnic differences in negative PSH exits among residents with SUDs. Within the nation's largest PSH program at the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), we examined relationships among SUDs and negative PSH exits (for up to five years post-PSH move-in) across racial/ethnic subgroups.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Racial Ethn Health Disparities
January 2025
School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) occurs within all racial, ethnic, and demographic pediatric groups. However, Black children with ASD are diagnosed at later stages of their development, and as a result may not receive or may age out of early intervention services, and demonstrate poorer long-term outcomes, across a range of factors. African American parent's perceptions regarding access to and utilization of healthcare services for their autistic children vary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNurs Outlook
January 2025
Sue & Bill Gross School of Nursing, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA; Department of Psychological Science, University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA. Electronic address:
Background: Structural disparities in the United States (U.S.) healthcare system negatively impact care access and quality for racial and ethnic minorities.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNicotine Tob Res
January 2025
Behavioral Health and Health Policy, Westat, 1600 Research Blvd, Rockville, MD 20850, United States.
Introduction: Pregnant people who smoke constitute a uniquely vulnerable population likely to be impacted by a menthol cigarette (MC) ban. However, there are no published reports of prevalence of prenatal MC use in a nationally-representative US sample including racial-ethnic disparities and associated characteristics.
Methods: Participants were 1245 US pregnant people who smoked MC or non-MC (NMC) in the past 30-days from the 2010-2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health.
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