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J Homosex 2021 Apr 19:1-25. Epub 2021 Apr 19.

Sociology Department, Framingham State University, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA.

Research finds that transgender survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) often face transphobia-related barriers to reaching help. Due partially to a dearth of larger datasets supporting multivariate analyses, it is unclear whether sociodemographic factors can further hinder transgender help-seeking. Addressing these gaps, logistic regression secondary data analyses were conducted with 15,198 transgender IPV survivors from the nationally-representative 2015 . Read More

ATS Sch 2020 Mar 5;1(2):152-160. Epub 2020 Mar 5.

Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

: The diversity in pulmonary and critical care medicine (PCCM) training programs in the United States has not been systematically evaluated, despite emphasis on workforce diversity and its role in improving gender and racial healthcare disparities. : We analyzed the diversity of the PCCM pipeline by gender, race, and ethnicity over the last 10 years. : The PCCM pipeline was defined as internal medicine residents, fellowship applicants, and fellows in pulmonary-only, critical care medicine-only, and combined PCCM programs. Read More

Glob Qual Nurs Res 2021 Jan-Dec;8:23333936211005475. Epub 2021 Mar 31.

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA.

Despite four decades of resilience research, resilience remains a poor fit for practice as a scientific construct. Using the literature, we explored the concepts attributed to the development of resilience, identifying those that mitigate symptoms of distress caused by adversity and facilitate coping in seven classes of illness: transplants, cancer, mental illness, episodic illness, chronic and painful illness, unexpected events, and illness within a dyadic relationship. We identified protective, compensatory, and challenge-related coping-concept strategies that healthcare workers and patients use during the adversity experience. Read More

Front Sociol 2021 10;6:611775. Epub 2021 Feb 10.

Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health, International Health Department, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised national consciousness about health inequities that disproportionately impact American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities, yet urban AI/AN communities continue to remain a blind spot for health leaders and policymakers. While all United States cities have been the traditional homelands of AI/AN peoples since time immemorial, urban AI/ANs are consistently excluded in local and national health assessments, including recent reports pertaining to COVID-19. Today the majority of AI/ANs (71%) live in urban areas, and many cities have strong Urban Indian Health Programs (UIHPs) that provide space for medical care, community gatherings, cultural activities, and traditional healing. Read More

Front Sociol 2021 23;6:611356. Epub 2021 Mar 23.

Center for American Indian Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States.

The traditions, strengths, and resilience of communities have carried Indigenous peoples for generations. However, collective traumatic memories of past infectious diseases and the current impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in many Indigenous communities point to the need for Indigenous strengths-based public health resources. Further, recent data suggest that COVID-19 is escalating mental health and psychosocial health inequities for Indigenous communities. Read More