North America

This Article supports SDG 3 by evaluating a hepatitis B screening programme in which members of the West African community in the Bronx were offered hepatitis B testing when they attended a blood pressure clinic visit following an educational intervention about hypertension. Almost all participants accepted to have hepatitis B screening, showing the effectiveness of its being linked to blood pressure testing.
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Renewable and Clean Energy Systems Based on Advanced Nanomaterials: Basis, Preparation, and Applications, Volume , 1 January 2024

This chapter aligns with SDG Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy by addressing the limitations of solar panels and exploring solutions to improve their effectiveness as a renewable energy source.
The article provides a scoping review of the literature on United States doula programs and their outcomes to inform state-level policies.
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Journal of Biomedical Informatics, Volume 155, July 2024

The study proposes a causal fairness algorithm to assess fairness in clinical decision-making. Our algorithm accounts for the heterogeneity of patient populations and identifies potential unfairness in treatment allocation by conditioning on patients who have the same likelihood to benefit from the treatment. 

This study used a critical discourse analysis to examine how 12 major US school districts present student demographics for their dual language bilingual education (DLBE) programs, focusing on race, socioeconomics, ability, and English-learner status.

The paper assesses the feasibility of using the Canadian Health Measures Survey (CHMS) data to analyze chemical exposures in racial and Indigenous populations in Canada, and discusses the opportunities and constraints of this analysis, while noting the limited representativeness of Indigenous identity groups in the CHMS sample.

This article provides an overview of the Age‐Friendly Emergency Department (AFED) model, a crucial component of a holistic age‐friendly health system with the potential to improve patient‐centered outcomes, reduce adverse events and hospitalizations, and enhance functional recovery. Age‐friendly healthcare is a comprehensive approach using the 4Ms framework—what matters, medications, mentation, and mobility—to ensure that healthcare settings are responsive to the needs of older patients.
This investigation aimed to understand preclinical biomarker and genetic Alzheimer’s disease research participation in underrepresented groups to facilitate greater diversity in future biomarker research and clinical trials.
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Canadian Journal of Cardiology, Volume 40, Issue 6, June 2024, Pages 1069-1076

Largely as a result of Canada's colonial history, Indigenous communities face higher rates of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. This review summarizes the current evidence for culturally adapted cardiac rehabilitation programming for Indigenous patients

In this study, the authors analyse alternative pembrolizumab administration strategies that might have environmental advantages over the current dosing and compounding paradigms (improved environmental sustainability without sacrificing clinical outcomes)

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