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Barcelos, Chris; McNeil, J. Nyla; Turner, Yanté; Redwine, Edie Ma'iingan – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2023
Research has demonstrated that systemic transphobia and cissexism harms transgender youth in terms of social, educational, and health outcomes. All too often, research and policy emphasizes vulnerability among trans youth in a way that denies their capabilities as agents of change or active participants in their liberation. This article analyzes…
Descriptors: LGBTQ People, Sexual Identity, Social Bias, Youth Programs
Ali, Dorota; O'Brien, Sarah; Hull, Laura; Kenny, Lorcan; Mandy, Will – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2023
The COVID-19 pandemic prompted a large-scale move to remote delivery of healthcare services. However, little research has directly explored telehealth experiences of autistic adults, a population strongly affected by health inequalities and care access barriers. This study sought telehealth experiences of 11 autistic adults (aged 27-67 years),…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Adults, Health Services, Access to Health Care
Lewis, Jane; Mildon, Robyn; Steele, Tom – UNICEF Office of Research - Innocenti, 2022
By illuminating why and how interventions work in real world settings, Implementation Research (IR) is a powerful tool for increasing the likelihood that evidence-based interventions, programmes and policies are successfully implemented. The insights that IR generates help bridge the 'know-do gap'--the gap between what we know works and what…
Descriptors: Program Implementation, Evidence Based Practice, Definitions, Financial Support
Dilmaghani, Maryam – Health Education, 2021
Purpose: Over the years, many upstream health policies have sought to reduce smoking across populations. While smoking has been substantially reduced, the effects of these policies on education-smoking gradient remain unclear. The present paper compares the education-smoking gradient among the Generation X and the millennials, who grew up with…
Descriptors: Smoking, Incidence, Public Policy, Public Health
Pirkle, Jesseca R. A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2023
Since federal legalization in 1973, abortion has become a safe and popular option for those who desire to terminate a pregnancy. However, the Supreme Court decision of "Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization" in June 2022 clearly outlined a national divide that shifted abortion rights in the hands of state legislatures. This shift…
Descriptors: Pregnancy, Federal Legislation, State Legislation, Females
Tyrer, Freya; Kiani, Reza; Rutherford, Mark J. – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2021
Background: There is a need to systematically compare and contrast mortality predictors and disparities in people with intellectual disabilities (ID) for global prevention strategy development. Method: Bibliographic databases and grey literature were searched using systematic review methodology and the machine learning tool "Abstrackr."…
Descriptors: Intellectual Disability, Death, Predictor Variables, Prevention
Freudenberg, Nicholas; Franzosa, Emily; Chisholm, Janice; Libman, Kimberly – Health Education & Behavior, 2015
Growing evidence shows that unequal distribution of wealth and power across race, class, and gender produces the differences in living conditions that are "upstream" drivers of health inequalities. Health educators and other public health professionals, however, still develop interventions that focus mainly on "downstream"…
Descriptors: Public Health, Health Promotion, Living Standards, Intervention
Zvolensky, Michael J.; Kauffman, Brooke Y.; Bogiaizian, Daniel; Viana, Andres G.; Bakhshaie, Jafar; Peraza, Natalia – Journal of American College Health, 2021
Objective: Latinx young adults in college (ages 18-25 years) are at a heightened risk for health disparities and there is a need to understand individual-based characteristics that are related to such health inequalities including anxiety, depression, and sleep disturbances. The cross-sectional current study investigated the role of worry in…
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Psychological Patterns, Sleep, Age Differences
Flynt Wallington, Sherrie; Greaney, Mary; Rampa, Sankeerth; Cummings, Carol – American Journal of Health Education, 2022
Background: The link between limited health literacy (HL), an often forgotten social determinant of health, inadequate access to health care, and poor health outcomes demonstrates the need for better patient education. Understanding HL supports patient education on multiple levels. Purpose: Our objective was to measure HL and its association with…
Descriptors: Patients, Health Facilities, Health Materials, Information Literacy
Chakraborty, Chandrima, Ed.; Pal, Dipyaman, Ed. – Emerald Publishing Limited, 2023
Gender inequality has wide-ranging and adverse implications for all of society. For this reason, the United Nations has made it a top priority to address this issue through the Sustainable Development Goals, which state that gender equality is not only a fundamental human right but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Foreign Countries, Sustainable Development, Objectives
Vamos, Sandra D.; Wacker, Corinne C.; Welter, Virginia D. E.; Schlüter, Kirsten – Journal of School Health, 2021
Background: Food literacy, a sub-area of health literacy, is achieving attention in schools, academia, research, health care, businesses, and governments worldwide. Against the current COVID-19 pandemic backdrop, the relevance of food literacy's interconnected attributes such as nutritional knowledge, food skills, and food environment is gaining…
Descriptors: Health Education, Literacy, Food, Elementary Secondary Education
Ryan, Travis A.; Scior, Katrina – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2016
Background: People with intellectual disabilities experience serious health inequalities (e.g. they die younger than people without intellectual disabilities). Medical students' attitudes towards health care for this population warrant empirical attention because, as tomorrow's doctors, they will affect the health inequalities that people with…
Descriptors: Medical Students, Student Attitudes, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Health Services
Deary, Ian J. – Journal of Intelligence, 2021
Here, intelligence is taken to mean scores from psychometric tests of cognitive functions. This essay describes how cognitive tests offer assessments of brain functioning--an otherwise difficult-to-assess organ--that have proved enduringly useful in the field of health and medicine. The two "consequential world problems" (the phrase used…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Cognitive Ability, Cognitive Tests, Brain
Williams Brown, Desiree – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Emerging adulthood is a critical life stage when participation in higher education can facilitate the transition of young individuals into adulthood and independence. The barriers associated with low health literacy levels are higher among racial or ethnic groups facing health inequalities, including those enrolled in higher education…
Descriptors: Health Education, College Faculty, Knowledge Level, College Students
Tracy, Jane; McDonald, Rachael – Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2015
Background: Despite awareness of the health inequalities experienced by people with intellectual disability, their health status remains poor. Inequalities in health outcomes are manifest in higher morbidity and rates of premature death. Contributing factors include the barriers encountered in accessing and receiving high-quality health care.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Partnerships in Education, Health Services, Mental Retardation