Sexual and gender minority (SGM) communities face stigma and discrimination that impact all aspects of health.
We study whether there is a racial bias in ratings of professional football players in Italian newspapers. We find that there is such a bias.
From the more than 700,000 deaths from COVID-19 in the US and the nearly 5 million worldwide, there emerge even more stories than match the statistics when one considers all of the patients' relations
The aim of this profile is to highlight the impact of George Washington Carver’s contributions to modern plant science and to celebrate his achievements as a pioneering interdisciplinary researcher. By discussing his work, in light of recent discoveries in legume symbioses and soil nutrition, the goal is to reveal his foresight and relevance, inspire new generations from diverse backgrounds and contribute to the decolonisation of the curriculum in higher education.
This research paper shows that a widely used tool might generate substantially divergent cardiovascular disease risk estimates for Black versus White individuals with identical risk profiles, which could introduce race-related variations in clinical recommendations for cardiovascular disease prevention.
This study supports SDG 3 and 10 by identifying multiple structural and normalisation biases in maternity care in the UK that disproportionately affected Black and minority ethnic women who died while receiving maternity care, including lack of nuanced care; microaggressions; and cultural, social, and clinical complexities in the care received.
This Article supports SDG 3 by examining the cost-effectiveness of implementing at scale a set of evidence-based hearing care interventions recommended by WHO. The study finds that the implementation would offer a large return of investment, due to the substantial costs to countries posed by hearing impairment.
This Comment supports SDGs 3 and 10 by explaining how people with disabilities are more likely to suffer adverse health effects from climate change, for a variety of reasons, and emphasising that people with disabilities should be considered, and included in planning of, climate change mitigation and adaptation efforts.
Elsevier,
Biomedical Engineering Applications for People with Disabilities and the Elderly in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond, Volume , 1 January 2022
This content aligns with Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing as well as Goal 10: Reducing Inequalities by examining the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the physical and mental health of the elderly.
