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Addressing Structural Racism In The Health Workforce, Randl B. Dent, Anushree Vichare, Jaileessa Casimir
Addressing Structural Racism In The Health Workforce, Randl B. Dent, Anushree Vichare, Jaileessa Casimir
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One of the greatest challenges facing the United States are health inequities among racial/ethnic and other marginalized populations. The deep-rooted structural racism embedded in our social systems, including our health care system and health workforce, is a core cause of racial health inequities. 1 Among many definitions of institutionalized or structural racism, Dr Jones 2 best defines it as: “Differential access to goods, services and opportunities of society by race ... It is structural, having been codified in our institutions of custom, practice, and law, so there need not be an identifiable perpetrator.” Dr Jones further explains that to set …
Laboratory Techniques In Public Health: Bi-520 Introduction To Public Health Lab Manual, Anuradha Srivastava
Laboratory Techniques In Public Health: Bi-520 Introduction To Public Health Lab Manual, Anuradha Srivastava
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This laboratory manual for a foundations course Public Health is unique in the sense that very rarely, a foundations course in the field has a lab component offered with the lecture. This lab manual provides basic laboratory exercises that could be useful to introduce undergraduate students to the basics of public health laboratory practices.
Should Covid-19 Patients >75 Years Be Ventilated? An Outcome Study, H. Raheja, N. Chukwuka, C. Agarwal, D. Sharma, A. Munoz-Martinez, Joshua Fogel, M. Khalid, A. T. Hashmi, S. Ehrlich, M. A. Waheed, S. Siddiqui, B. A. De Brito Gomes, A. Aslam, C. J. Merino Gualan, I. Aftab, A. Tiwari, S. Singh, K. Pouching, N. Somal, J Shani, G Rojas-Marte
Should Covid-19 Patients >75 Years Be Ventilated? An Outcome Study, H. Raheja, N. Chukwuka, C. Agarwal, D. Sharma, A. Munoz-Martinez, Joshua Fogel, M. Khalid, A. T. Hashmi, S. Ehrlich, M. A. Waheed, S. Siddiqui, B. A. De Brito Gomes, A. Aslam, C. J. Merino Gualan, I. Aftab, A. Tiwari, S. Singh, K. Pouching, N. Somal, J Shani, G Rojas-Marte
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Background: Elderly patients with COVID-19 disease are at increased risk for adverse outcomes. Current data regarding disease characteristics and outcomes in this population are limited.
Aim: To delineate the adverse factors associated with outcomes of COVID-19 patients ≥ 75 years of age. Design: Retrospective cohort study.
Methods: Patients were classified into mild/moderate, severe/very severe and critical disease (intubated) based on oxygen requirements. The primary outcome was in-hospital mortality.
Results: A total of 355 patients aged ≥ 75 years hospitalized with COVID-19 between 19 March and 25 April 2020 were included.Mean age was 84.3 years. One-third of the patients developed critical …