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Extending Fundamental Cause Theory to Holistic Health.
Sociol Health Illn
January 2025
Center for Public Policy and Health, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA.
Fundamental Cause Theory (FCT) offers a unique middle range and longitudinal understanding of the lasting social causational relationships between certain social conditions and disease/death. In this research note, I argue that FCT should extend its outcome measures beyond physical disease and death into holistic health. I briefly review how FCT is evaluated, explore the proposed extension and discuss some operational and conceptual challenges using mental illness and positive mental health outcomes as exemplars.
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Int J Equity Health
December 2024
Modeling of Noncommunicable Diseases Research Center, Institute of Health Sciences and Technologies, Avicenna Health Research Institute, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran.
Background: We aimed to determine the prevalence of physical activity and socio-economic inequality among the adults of Hamadan city.
Methods: This cross-sectional analytical study was conducted in Hamadan city between 2022 and 2023, involving a total of 591 adults aged 18 to 64 years. The research tool utilized in this study was the International Physical Activity Questionnaire, the results of the concentration index analysis reported at 95% confidence level.
Geospatial patterns by cancer stage across Australia for three common cancers.
Cancer Epidemiol
December 2024
Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Science, Queensland University of Technology 2 George St, Brisbane, Queensland 4000, Australia; Viertel Cancer Research Centre, Cancer Council Queensland, 553 Gregory Terrace, Fortitude Valley, Queensland 4006, Australia. Electronic address:
Background: Monitoring cancer stage is vital to interpret cancer incidence and survival patterns, yet there are currently no cancer stage estimates by small areas across Australia, despite demonstrated large disparities in cancer incidence and survival. While cancer stage data is not routinely collected in Australia, a pilot project collected stage information nationwide in 2011.
Methods: Data on all primary invasive melanoma, female breast and prostate cancers (stages 1-4) diagnosed during 2011 in Australia were categorised into early and intermediate/advanced stage at diagnosis.
Breast cancer treatment delay and the Hispanic paradox: A SEER database analysis.
Am J Surg
December 2024
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA; Division of Hematology and Oncology, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Background: Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in US women. Knowledge gaps exist regarding healthcare inequities in Hispanic BC patients. This study assessed BC characteristics and treatment patterns among Hispanics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVulnerability in Colorectal Cancer: Adjusted Gross Income and Geography as Factors in Determining Overall Survival in Colorectal Cancer: A Single-Center Study Across a Broad Income Inequality in an American Context.
Curr Oncol
December 2024
College of Science and Mathematics, Rowan University, 201 Mullica Hill Road, Glassboro, NJ 08028, USA.
: Regional differences in socioeconomic status (SES) are well known, and we believe that the use of geocoding (zip code) can facilitate the introduction of targeted interventions for underserved populations. This is a single-center, retrospective analysis of data extracted from the cancer registry at the Capital Health Cancer Center in Pennington, N. The Capital Health Cancer Center in central New Jersey primarily serves two counties, catering to a diverse patient population from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds.
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