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Quantifying Inequality in Underreported Medical Conditions
[article]
2021
arXiv
pre-print
However, it is difficult to estimate relative prevalence when a medical condition is underreported. ...
In this work, we provide a method for accurately estimating the relative prevalence of underreported medical conditions, building upon the positive unlabeled learning framework. ...
However, it is difficult to replicate this success for underreported medical conditions for several reasons. ...
arXiv:2110.04133v1
fatcat:nyeljaund5dkrkdnz32jqcv46e
Upsurge of Homicides and Its Impact on Life Expectancy and Life Span Inequality in Mexico, 2005–2015
2019
American Journal of Public Health
To quantify the effect of the upsurge of violence on life expectancy and life span inequality in Mexico after 2005. ...
Results for females indicate substantial reductions in life span inequality from medically amenable conditions and diabetes in the period 1995 to 2015. ...
For example, conditions amenable to medical service contributed to reductions in life span inequality in some states but small increases in 9 states for males distributed across the country, while cirrhosis ...
doi:10.2105/ajph.2018.304878
pmid:30676788
pmcid:PMC6366518
fatcat:o2ztozcqezeqncjpjhvals2jzm
Measuring abortion-related mortality: challenges and opportunities
2015
Reproductive Health
Two recent efforts to quantify the causes of maternal deaths on a global scale generated divergent estimates of abortion-related mortality. ...
The post-MDG development agenda that aims to improve global health, reduce health inequities, and increase accountability, requires new and novel approaches be tested to improve measurement and estimation ...
to seek care in medical facilities [8] [9] [10] [11] . ...
doi:10.1186/s12978-015-0064-1
pmid:26377189
pmcid:PMC4572614
fatcat:bd7vtz667zeyhksfhxu2z5ckba
Completeness of Cancer Case Ascertainment in International Cancer Registries: Exploring the Issue of Gender Disparities
2020
Frontiers in Oncology
There are few studies that discussed or attempted to quantify the degree of underreporting among women in a cancer registry (9, 25) . Barlow et al. ...
and the tradition of sharing of medical information among different medical specialties (59) . ...
The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in ...
doi:10.3389/fonc.2020.01148
pmid:32766152
pmcid:PMC7378680
fatcat:aaflu7qmnjgmnlh472mv4nm6ua
Income-related disparities in private prescription drug coverage in Canada
2019
CMAJ Open
Higher-income households are much more likely to hold private drug insurance coverage in Canada. ...
We performed a study to examine the relation between household income and private drug insurance coverage in Canada. ...
inequities in private drug insurance coverage in Canada. ...
doi:10.9778/cmajo.20190085
pmid:31604712
pmcid:PMC6791783
fatcat:zbnxxu2karcbbaawrt4idzenny
Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths in United States vital statistics and news-media-based data sources: A capture–recapture analysis
2017
PLoS Medicine
the Quantifying underreporting of law-enforcement-related deaths US [4] . ...
There was no statistically significant difference in the odds of underreporting in the NVSS for deaths certified by coroners compared to medical examiners, and the odds of underreporting did not vary by ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002399
pmid:29016598
pmcid:PMC5634537
fatcat:nxuouliyyncwtgybyfp7uttpc4
Comprehensive evaluation of the impact of sociodemographic inequalities on adverse outcomes and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City
2021
Clinical Infectious Diseases
Here, we conducted an in-depth evaluation of the impact of individual and municipal-level social inequalities on the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City. ...
Background The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City has been sharp, as several social inequalities at all levels coexist. ...
Conditions related to SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in Mexico City. ...
doi:10.1093/cid/ciab577
pmid:34159351
fatcat:7tsvmwhv65bjdehldkadtql2z4
Characterizing the Impact of Social Inequality on COVID-19 Propagation in Developing Countries
2020
IEEE Access
The relationship between social inequality and the health condition is not new, but it becomes even more evident in times of crisis, such as the one the world has been facing with COVID-19. ...
How does social inequality affect the COVID-19 propagation in developing countries is the object of this study. ...
cases that have sought medical advice [61] . ...
doi:10.1109/access.2020.3024910
pmid:34786291
pmcid:PMC8545300
fatcat:l3bibriakvf63dwje7jj6ojy24
Maternal Mortality Profile: An Integrative Literature Review / Perfil da Mortalidade Materna: Uma Revisão Integrativa da Literatura
2019
Revista de Pesquisa : Cuidado é Fundamental Online
Metodologia: Revisão da literatura, a busca foi realizada em agosto de 2017, por meio da Biblioteca Virtual em Saúde, nas bases de dados da Literatura Latino-Americana e do Caribe em Ciências da Saúde, Medical ...
The descriptions of the articles were performed by descriptive statistical analysis, being quantified by their nature. ...
This fact demonstrates that underreporting is still a problem to be solved. ...
doi:10.9789/2175-5361.2019.v11i3.816-822
fatcat:y7zez6vyuzhktged4vlytskx6u
Comprehensive evaluation of the impact of sociodemographic inequalities on adverse outcomes and excess mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City
[article]
2021
medRxiv
pre-print
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Mexico City has been sharp, as several social inequalities coexist with chronic comorbidities. ...
The impact of social inequalities transcends individuals and has significant effects at a municipality level, with and interaction between DISLI and MUPD. ...
Conditions related to SARS-CoV-2 outcomes in workers in Mexico City. ...
doi:10.1101/2021.03.11.21253402
fatcat:quza5egi2fffrbbm3kbawunri4
Women's uptake of Medicare Benefits Schedule mental health items for general practitioners, psychologists and other allied mental health professionals
2011
Medical Journal of Australia
SF-36 Mental Health Index scores among women in the younger and mid-age cohorts were lowest for women who had accessed mental health items or self-reported a recent mental health condition. ...
Although there has been rapid uptake of mental health items, uptake by women with mental health needs is low and there is potential socioeconomic inequity. ...
Consequently, it is not known whether providing subsidised services addresses inequities in service access. 5 In this study, we aimed to: • quantify uptake of mental health items by women participating ...
pmid:21401457
fatcat:icd4ant4anhbfh5gn6hqv7str4
Unreported cases in the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic: Spatiotemporal variation, and implications for estimating transmission
2018
PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
to medical care. ...
Conversely, quantifying underreporting can improve epidemic forecasts and containment PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases | https://doi.strategies. ...
Metcalf for feedback on earlier versions of the manuscript, and Red Cross volunteers and staff who worked on the Safe and Dignified Burial program in Sierra Leone.
Author Contributions ...
doi:10.1371/journal.pntd.0006161
pmid:29357363
pmcid:PMC5806896
fatcat:b5fxp3hfw5cyhpyetmsams3ifq
Socioeconomic inequalities in metabolic syndrome in the French West Indies
2019
BMC Public Health
However, socioeconomic inequalities in chronic diseases are poorly explored in this region. ...
Further prospective studies are needed to improve our understanding of the mechanisms of social inequalities in MetS in a high poverty rates context. ...
Subjects who reported specific conditions that could objectively explain low energy intake, such as a low-energy diet to lose weight or acute disease, were not recorded as underreporters. ...
doi:10.1186/s12889-019-7970-z
pmid:31795991
pmcid:PMC6888917
fatcat:onyu5jnimnaybdtrilraapdgeq
Has universal health insurance reduced socioeconomic inequalities in urban and rural health service use in Thailand?
2010
Health and Place
conducted under the auspices of the overarching project ''The Thai Health-Risk Transition: A National Cohort Study'', funded by the Wellcome Trust UK (GR071587MA) and the Australian National Health and Medical ...
Conclusion In this paper, we have described the patterns of urban and rural use of health services, quantified and assessed the magnitudes of inequalities, and compared between urban and rural areas before ...
The present study has three objectives: first, to describe the patterns of urban and rural use of health services before and after the UCS; second, to quantify and assess the magnitudes of inequalities ...
doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.06.010
pmid:20634120
pmcid:PMC3031979
fatcat:deykhz7zejg7pjhqh3gbuladr4
Inequalities in mortality of men by oral and pharyngeal cancer in Barcelona, Spain and São Paulo, Brazil, 1995–2003
2008
International Journal for Equity in Health
Large inequalities of mortality by most cancers in general, by mouth and pharynx cancer in particular, have been associated to behaviour and geopolitical factors. ...
The objective of this study was to compare socioeconomic inequalities in male mortality by oral and pharyngeal cancer in two major cities of Europe and South America. ...
For this aim, health systems demand selective information quantifying inequalities in the experience of disease. ...
doi:10.1186/1475-9276-7-14
pmid:18533020
pmcid:PMC2430700
fatcat:rd6b25a6qbbczhpc5bci23drey
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