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JMIR Aging
January 2025
Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States.
Background: Loneliness is a significant issue among older Asian Americans, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Older age, lower income, limited education, and immigrant status heighten loneliness risk. Information communication technologies (ICTs) have been associated with decreased loneliness among older adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVaccines (Basel)
December 2024
Department of Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB T2N 1N4, Canada.
: As the newcomer population in Canada continues to grow, we aimed to collaborate with newcomer families arriving in an urban center in Alberta, Canada to identify strategies to overcome identified barriers newcomers face in obtaining routine childhood vaccines (RCVs). : We recruited newcomers living in Calgary, Alberta to participate in a workshop utilizing the Nominal Group Technique (NGT) to develop solutions addressing barriers to obtaining RCVs. Ranking exercises helped identify the top-proposed interventions based on perceived impact and feasibility for implementation.
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January 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, Palo Alto, California.
In response to a record number of immigrant families arriving in the United States through the southern border, a multidisciplinary team at a tertiary care children's hospital developed an inpatient asylum protocol (IAP) whose goals were to identify, screen, and support hospitalized asylum-seeking patients and their families. Identified patients were provided with specialized social work, case management, and legal support and were longitudinally followed after hospital discharge to ensure successful engagement with community resources. A total of 47 patients were enrolled over 2.
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December 2024
Assistant professor of pediatrics and director of the Program for Immigrant and Refugee Child Health at Baylor College of Medicine/Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, Texas, United States.
Can J Public Health
December 2024
Department of Emergency Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Objective: Social and economic marginalizations have been associated with inferior health outcomes in Canada. Our objective was to describe the relationship between neighbourhood marginalization and COVID-19 outcomes among patients presenting to Canadian emergency departments (ED).
Methods: We conducted an observational study among consecutive COVID-19 patients recruited from 47 hospitals participating in the Canadian COVID-19 ED Rapid Response Network (CCEDRRN) between March 3, 2020, and July 24, 2022.
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