Edition 23 – Acculturation, Familial Support, and Unhealthful Dietary Patterns: Evaluating Notable Trends in a Latino Population

Graph 1. U.S.-born and foreign-born participants’ self-reported frequency of fast/packaged food consumption in the last two weeks.

Acculturation, Familial Support, and Unhealthful Dietary Patterns: Evaluating Notable Trends in a Latino Population By Lauren E. Miller, Maud Joachim-Célestin, Marisol Lara, Simone Deshields, Susanne Montgomery, Camille Clarke Citation Miller L, Joachim-Célestin M, Lara M, Deshields S, DaCosta Davis  S, Montgomery S, Clarke C. Acculturation, familial support, and unhealthful dietary patterns: evaluating notable trends in […]

Dr. Ankit Raj discusses Global Surgery: From the Deep End in his last blog post

Dr. Ankit Raj introduces Global Surgery in his blog "Talking Global Surgery"

Lessons from Bihar By Dr. Ankit Raj Talking Global Surgery: From the Deep End Global surgery, like its elder cousin Global Health, remains largely dominated by students and experts from high-income countries. In the previous blog, we talked about Global Surgery and learned through brief introduction, scope and boundaries that define the field. We also […]

Dr. Ankit Raj introduces Global Surgery in his blog “Talking Global Surgery”

Dr. Ankit Raj introduces Global Surgery in his blog "Talking Global Surgery"

Lessons from Bihar By Dr. Ankit Raj Talking Global Surgery: An Introduction “5 billion people do not have access to safe, affordable, surgical and anaesthesia care when needed.” Global surgery is an interdisciplinary field encompassing the cross-cutting segments of surgery, anesthesia, public health, epidemiology, and health policy. This field is relatively young and lesser known […]

Dr. Heather Tillewein discusses health barriers for transgender individuals

Dr. Heather Tillewein discusses health barriers for transgender individuals

Dr. Tillewein discusses the barriers that transgender individuals face when trying to access health care. Transgender individuals face several barriers with insurance, medical providers, and and accessing gender based services. Also, this blog will discuss the lack of education on transgender health that providers have.

Edition 20 – Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Swedish Clinical Cancer Trials: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Experiences

Figure 1 : Barriers to, strategies for and ethical reflections surrounding inclusions of ethnic minorities in clinical research

Representation of Ethnic Minorities in Swedish Clinical Cancer Trials: A Qualitative Study of Physicians’ Experiences By Robert Spörndly, Stefan Eriksson, and Tove E. Godskesen Citation Spörndly R, Eriksson S, and Godskesen T. Representation of ethnic minorities in Swedish clinical cancer trials: a qualitative study of physicians’ experiences. Harvard Public Health Review. Fall 2018;20. DOI:10.54111/0001/T1 Representation of […]

Edition 20 – One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Applying Flexibility to the Primary Care Behavioral Health Model with Transient Populations – A Brief Report

Figure 1 : PDSA Cycle – HHH

One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Applying Flexibility to the Primary Care Behavioral Health Model with Transient Populations – A Brief Report By Dr. Stacy A. Ogbeide Citation Ogbeide S. Applying flexibility to the primary care behavioral health model with transient populations. Harvard Public Health Review. Fall 2018;20. DOI:10.54111/0001/T2 One Size Doesn’t Fit All: Applying Flexibility to […]

Edition 23 – Optimizing Big Data to Inform the Plausibility of Patient Debt

Figure 1. Relative percentage decrease for the respondents in the NFCS survey answering “Yes” to the question, “Do you currently have any unpaid bills from a health care or medical service provider (e.g., a hospital, a doctor’s office, or a testing lab) that are past due?” States adopting Medicaid expansion as of 2015 appear in blue & non-expansion states are in orange.

Optimizing Big Data to Inform the Plausibility of Patient Debt By Sebastián R. Díaz and Vikrant Bhatnagar Citation Díaz S and Bhatnagar V. Optimizing big data to inform the plausibility of patient debt. Harvard Public Health Review. 2019;23. DOI:10.54111/0001/W2 Optimizing Big Data to Inform the Plausibility of Patient Debt Abstract In 2014, states approving the expansion […]

Edition 9 – Accepting Refugees: Alternative Arguments for Canada

Edition 9 – Healthcare Recommendations For Recently Arrived Refugees: Observations from EthnoMed

Accepting Refugees: Alternative Arguments for Canada By Michelle Amri, MPA Citation Amri M. Accepting refugees: alternative arguments for Canada. Harvard Public Health Review. Spring 2016;9. Accepting Refugees: Alternative Arguments for Canada The Canadian federal election came to an end on October 19, 2015, with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promising to bring in 25,000 Syrian refugees to […]