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  1. Dec 2023
    1. Nearly a quarter of teams disagree or are unsure whether their meetings result in actionable recommendations, and almost half report that they do not develop work groups or subcommittees to focus on implementation of specific recommendations.

      Subcommittee organized around implementation of specific recommendations rather than around interest groups

  2. Sep 2023
    1. The test corpus of clinical notes was extracted from any clinical encounter for a second, separate health system.

      Want not do stratified sampling of both health systems for both training and testing (to aid in generalizability)

    1. We also excluded studies conducted in the hospitalor childcare setting and those focused on educating healthcareprofessionals

      Doesn't childcare count as in the community?

  3. May 2023
    1. 2. Impacts

      I would have liked to have seen an analysis by race or by income level.

    2. Figure 2. Program impacts, overall and by ECE sector.

      Primary result

    3. More than 500 center- and home-based child care sites

      Home-based care included?

    4. and many more are usingAmerican Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds to support teacher compensation andtry to improve employment stability for early educators.

      But not IN

    1. Bailey, Z. D., Krieger, N., Agénor, M., Graves, J., Linos, N., & Bassett, M. T. (2017). Structural racism and health inequities in the USA: Evidence and interventions. Lancet (London, England), 389(10077), 1453–1463. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)30569-X

    1. Documenting these pathways may be particularly challenging in an intersectional framework because downstream factors that serve as mechanisms for one axis of structural inequality may function like confounders for a different type of structural inequality.

      Which is why you can't just throw in a bunch of factors and starting interpreting their "effect sizes"

    2. Table 4.

      From a statistical perspective, I fundamentally disagree with this modeling approach of throwing everything in the kitchen sink into the model, then trying to interpret individual covariate coefficients as if they are indicative of any sort of natural process outside the world of the model.

    3. Intersecting systems of oppression are likely to shape health via an array of mechanisms, including differential access to economic and flexible resources (e.g., social capital, power, prestige, autonomy, self-esteem) and increased exposure to health risks such as social stressors, toxic living conditions, discrimination, stigma, and relative deprivation

      Mechanisms

    4. Broadly, intersectionality is a framework and analytic tool to understand the impacts of overlapping systems of oppression such as racism, sexism, classism, and other forms of inequality

      Intersectionality definition

    5. We first summarize and distill core ideas of intersectionality. Next, we discuss how intersectional perspectives have made major contributions to the understanding of health disparities over the past few decades. We then describe how incorporating new structural approaches to population health can enhance quantitative intersectional health disparities research in ways that embody the core ideas of intersectionality.

      Objectives

    6. Thus, several scholars have recently highlighted the need for a synthesis of intersectional and structural approaches

      Statement of need

    7. Similarly, Homan (2019) proposed a theoretical framework for structural sexism and health and developed state-level structural sexism measures that were then shown to be negatively associated with physical health among both women and men.

      Adding structural to other isms

    1. whether the child’s abductor was an acquaintance or a stranger was a far more important factor in safe recovery than whether the Amber Alert generated a helpful tip.

      But we can't intervene on who the abductor is

    2. Indiana’s criteria for issuing an Amber Alert say the missing child must be under 18 years of age, law enforcement must confirm the child has been abducted and officers must believe the child is in danger of harm or death. The criteria also call for “enough descriptive information to believe that the broadcast will help.”

      Many opportunities for subjective bias

    3. In cases where harm is imminent, Griffin told USA TODAY, authorities almost never issue an Amber Alert fast enough to prevent a tragedy.

      Are there racial differences in time to alert issuance?

    4. 1 in 7 involving Black children.

      At what rate are Black children found regardless of Amber Alert contribution?

    5. Issuing alerts too often, or with too little information, Poupard said, risks public fatigue, causing people to ignore them instead of keeping their eyes peeled for a missing child.

      Fair point, so maybe the trick is to identify specific reasons for denial associated with race of child

    6. That rules out missing children considered runaways

      How do they determine if it is a runaway case or not?

    7. That effort came in response to the case of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman

      Not a color, named after this girl

    8. Most children who receive Amber Alerts are found safe, police told USA TODAY, but the alert itself was credited in just 1 in 4 Amber Alerts across the country over six months last year.

      By what criteria is an Amber Alert credited as helping?

    9. Bynum said police told him they needed a license plate number.

      What are other common reasons an Amber Alert gets denied

    1. the reason to study how injustice harms health is not to prove that injustice is wrong, since it is, by definition (92). Instead, the reasons are to deepen understanding of how injustice shapes population health, for whose benefit at whose expense; to contest narratives that naturalize inequities; and to generate evidence for accountability.

      Why we research

    2. Instead, we live embodied—and our bodies each and every day biologically integrate each and every type of unjust, and also beneficial, exposure encountered, at each and every level (96, 97). The construct of intersectionality, a term originating in the legal and social sciences (67, 74), similarly conveys the socially structured entanglement of multiple types of injustice, albeit without a focus on the pathways and processes of literal biological embodiment (

      It's all tangled together

    3. Drawing on the ecosocial theory of disease distribution (91, 93, 97), I synthesize key features of these isms (Table 1) and provide a measurement schema (Table 2), which together inform my discussion of concrete examples of such research from the Global North and the Global South (Table 3)

      Objectives

    1. This paper summarizes existing evidence about the range of state-level immigration and immigrant-focused policies that affect Latino health, indicates conceptually plausible but under-explored relationships between domains of policy and Latino health, traces the mechanisms through which such policies might shape Latino health, and points to key areas for future research.

      Objective

    1. We find common ground in the belief that conceptualizing and intervening into abstract social formations is a skill that requires study and practice over time. And, that the competency that results from such efforts helps clinicians develop, not the hubris of mastery, but the humility to recognize the complexity of the structural constraints that patients and doctors operate within

      Competency != Mastery

    2. We thus argue that medical education needs to more broadly engage with knowledges and methods beyond its traditional purview if it wishes to train its practitioners to effectively address the pressing health issues of our time. And, ultimately, that increasing recognition of the ways in which social and economic forces produce symptoms or methylate genes then needs to be better coupled with medical models for structural change.

      Thesis

    3. On the other hand, many of these physicians work in a country that has never invested less in infrastructure, or done less to correct fatal and fatalizing inequities—even in the aftermath of the Affordable Care Act.

      Citation?

    4. because the forces Carmichael described have become ever-more destructive to human life.

      Citation?

    5. Carmichael protested the silent racism of “established and respected forces in the society” that functioned above the level of individual perceptions or intentions, and that worked to maintain the status quo through such structures as zoning laws, economics, schools, and courts.

      Stokely Carmichael as early structural thinker

    1. Less encumbered by the politics of the moment and in tandemwith philanthropic interests, the business community serves as the keeper of the longview

      Kinda disagree, they are still often encumbered by the short-term politics of shareholders.

    2. Based on the results of this project and national research, policymakersshould revise the PTQ rating system to become more reliant on measuring outcomes that areclosely associated with holistic readiness for kindergarten and beyond.

      Disagree with this. Practices are all within a program's loci of control. Outcomes are influenced by many external factors. IMO, outcomes should be used to assess the efficacy of interventions or standards of practice, but should not be used to directly assess the quality of a program. IMO, doing so has the potential to reinforce disparities.

    3. Indiana Policy Circle Brief - Early Childhood Education (ECE)

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    1. Among these,structural racism was quantified within the contexts (domains)

      Hard to read in text body, domains are: - Residential housing patterns - Perceptions of structural racism in social institutions broadly - Socioeconomic status - Immigration and border enforcement - Political participation - Workplace

    2. Groos, M., Wallace, M., Hardeman, R., & Theall, K. (2018). Measuring inequity: A systematic review of methods used to quantify structural racism. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 11(2). https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/jhdrp/vol11/iss2/13

    1. The dismissal of residents’ concerns was particularly upsetting as General Motors’ factories in Flint were granted permission to reconnect to water from Detroit Water and Sewerage in October 2014 because the Flint River water was damaging their machines and products.

      Disparities in credibility and priority based on capital

    1. Pair-wise versus summary approach

      Would need to read more about this to fully digest

    2. Accordingly, Healthy People 201037 (and, subsequently, Healthy People 2020) used the group with the most favorable (or, alternatively, the least adverse) rate to highlight opportunities for improvement.

      Recommended reference point

    3. Social position can be defined as “relative advantage and disadvantage in social hierarchies.”

      I like this broader categorization in which you can place racism

    1. Within a multiple case study approach,42 individual in-person interviews, focus groups, policymaker phone interviews, archival media and document review, and participant observation took place under the University of California–Berkeley institutional review board protocol and formed the basis of our present analysis.

      Many sources of information (in-depth)

      Approach is multiple case studies

    2. Trade, Health, and Environment (THE) Impact Project

      THE Acronym reference

    3. highlights the interaction between evidence and civic engagement to shift political power

      Prime objective?

      Operationalizing how to bridge the gap.

    4. How research can be leveraged to promote health equity policy, or the role of locality-based research strategies, in particular community-based participatory research (CBPR), is less understood.

      Gap

    1. we have identified gaps in theliterature, outlining the following list of opportunities for use ofmeasurement, which is not about new measures, but, instead,using accurate measures consistently and mapping such measuresto investments to become more accountable

      Research opportunities for greater accountability

    2. Such racism takes on one of two forms: internal-ized oppression or internalized dominance, both of which hinge onthe concept of embodiment, in which engagement with the materi-al and social world transforms the body

      Nice pithy classification of internalized racism

    3. It isimportant to note that the purpose of measurement is not to mere-ly document disparities but to incite anti-racist action by identify-ing opportunities for intervention.6

      Needs to be actionable

    4. Such racial biases arise because existing algorithms predict healthcare costs rather than illness, but health care costs are a poorproxy for health care needs because health-related expendituresare impacted by barriers to health care access.

      Key caution with using health care expenditures as proxy for health care need/usage.

    5. Restricted health access forMedicaid patients disproportionately affects racial and ethnic mi-norities, who are 2.5 times more likely to have Medicaid coveragethan non-Hispanic Whites.

      Medicaid access an important proxy

    6. Nawaz, S., Moon, K. J., Seiber, E., Trinh, A., Bennett, S., & Joseph, J. J. (2020). Racism Measurement Framework: A Tool for Public Health Action and Accountability. Ohio Journal of Public Health, 3(3), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.18061/ojph.v3i3.8037

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    1. Fullcritical consciousness occurs when corrective actions are taken inresponse to the cognitions and emotions (Johnson, 2000).

      Novel concept: Critical race approach integrates the affective response to cognition

    2. One school of thought furtherposits that without conspiring to do so dominant institutions andgroup members tend to make decisions in ways that preserve theircollective interests

      Focusing on individual level factors help institutions ignore more sweeping change needed for equity

    3. Although race is considered a proxy for racism, research shouldnot just treat measures of race as indicators of racism because therace proxies do not necessarily explain the mechanisms by whichracism effects occur

      Love this concept

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  4. Apr 2023
    1. First, a fundamental disconnect typically exists between policymakers and researchers. A study of policymakers’ use of evidence in their daily work demonstrated the need for improving their understanding of the relative merits of different evidence, and for researchers to better understand the needs of, and demands upon, policymakers to better provide customer-sensitive products.

      Bidirectional poor understanding of each other's needs

    1. Pg 90, Column 2, Regarding Diversity Rocks Approach, "The underlying message, then, is that from day to day, the classroom curriculum reflects White, middle-class, mainstreams events, foods, and attire, but say, for Chinese New Year or Rosh Hashanah, the curriculum pauses to focus on how a culture or a child or a family is different from the norm."

    2. Page 90, 1st column, "Then she realized that her own unwillingness to enter in a dialogue with the children about skin color protected White children and abandoned the children of color in her classroom."

    3. Pg. 89, 1st column, Children reach conclusions about race (as well as about class, gender, sexuality, and so on) whether or not the adults in their lives talk explicitly about these topics or not.

    4. Fabienne Doucet & Jennifer Keys Adair. (2013). Addressing race and inequity in the classroom. Young Children, 68(5), 88–97.

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    1. Souto-Manning, M., & Rabadi-Raol, A. (2018). (Re)Centering Quality in Early Childhood Education: Toward Intersectional Justice for Minoritized Children. Review of Research in Education, 42, 203–225.

    1. Head Start family day care programs do not appear to provide quality advantages for at-risk children, and this warrants further investigation

      Theme 3; But what would be the alternative if these family day care programs were not present? Is there a harm reduction argument for bolstering these programs?

    2. Race/ethnic disparities in child care quality are present across types of child care settings, with African American and Hispanic children most likely to experience lower-quality child care

      Theme 2

    3. Head Start centers provide a means of accessing high quality child care for at-risk populations of children, but reach comparatively few children who could benefit from them

      Theme 1

    4. The research objectives of this study are: (1) to determine the types and quality of child care settings currently experienced by populations of children at elevated risk of developmental delay as compared to child care settings experienced by other children; (2) to examine differences in child care quality between Head Start and non-Head Start settings for populations of children at elevated developmental risk; and (3) to identify characteristics that are associated with enrollment in higher-quality child care settings, focusing on aspects of socioeconomic position that may facilitate or impede access to quality child care.

      Thesis

    1. It was hypothesized that teachers whowere exposed to AAE text, who were informedabout dialect transformation strategies, andwho received guided practice would acquiregreater proficiency in the use of AAE and morepositive attitudes toward AAE than teacherswho received only one or two of these instruc-tional components.

      Hypothesis

    2. The present study focused on the acquisitionof written rather than oral language proficiency.

      Key difference

    3. The goal of the present study was to educateand sensitize teachers to the use of AAE dialectforms so that they would be better prepared tohelp dialect-speaking students in their class-rooms to distinguish differences between AAEand SE features in the course of acquiring SE.

      Goal

    4. The social-cognitive view ofself-regulated learning provides one approachfor designing such instruction.

      Framework

    5. The purpose of the pre-sent study was to examine how effective dialectinstruction might be structured for SE-speakingclassroom teachers.

      Thesis

    6. Fogel, H., & Ehri, L. C. (2006). Teaching African American English Forms to Standard American English-Speaking Teachers: Effects on Acquisition, Attitudes, and Responses to Student Use. Journal of Teacher Education, 57(5), 464–480. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022487106294088

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    1. As Derman-Sparks and Ramsey (2006) note, teaching about anti-racism may be even more important in majority White classrooms (teachers and students) than in racially diverse settings.

      Because they don't have opportunities to overcome racist stereotypes through direct interactions with people from other groups

    1. To enact and sustain an anti-racist approach, early childhood educators need to understand the racial history of early childhood programs and the racism in current early childhood programs. In this article, we outline the past and present along with strategies for creating anti-racist early childhood spaces.

      Thesis

    2. “Most Perry Preschool teachers—including the two of us—held the empowerment perspective, while administrators mostly took the cultural deprivation perspective. The teachers’ empowerment beliefs shaped actual practice with the children and families, although publications about the program reflected the administrators’ cultural deprivation thinking” (85)

      Disconnect between teachers and admin

    1. Though there are mixed impact of Head Start for children's school readiness and later outcomes, there is ample evidence of its importance in providing comprehensive services for children and families from preventative medical care and early intervention supports to job, food, and housing assistance for parents (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, 2010).

      Arguably just as important

    2. The purpose of CRT is to describe and critically analyze how racism is and has always been embedded in life, law, and culture.

      Pithy CRT definition

    3. Black children and their families are often victims of residential, economic, social, and psychological segregation

      Like this conception of segregation beyond spatial dimensions

    4. we seek to uncover how early care and education programs and systems can better leverage the assets of Black children and their families and communities in the learning setting, rather than the continued marginalization and deficit approach often taken when caring for and teaching Black children.

      Thesis

    1. putting an end to separate and unequal hospitalcare

      The probably found other ways to still offer unequal care.

    2. andwhen they do not, then the government must impose penalties onthem, such as fines

      Poor enforcement often the real issue

    3. As the community is revitalized, the government needs toensure that the benefits go to the current residents, not to those who willmove in once the community is better,

      Cannot emphasize this point enough!!!

    4. Since structural racism is a multifacetedproblem, it can only be addressed by adopting multifaceted solutions

      Key point

    5. or example, even though Afri-can Americans live closer to high-quality hospitals than Caucasians,they are more likely to undergo surgery at low-quality hospitals.

      Reminds me of neighborhood dynamics around Johns Hopkins or Cleveland Clinic, where the Black community is directly adjacent, but gets care elsewhere.

    6. unin-sured trauma patients were found to be 1.8 times more likely to diefrom their injuries from auto accidents and were 2.6 times more likelyto die from gunshot wounds, as compared to privately insured patients

      Especially damning due to it being an acute care service (as opposed to elective or preventive)

    7. the uninsuredtended to wait longer and to become sicker before seeing a doctor

      Which in some ways can be viewed as rational behavior when trying to balance all of life's priorities.

    8. Therefore, racism makes people sick through these intervening varia-bles. The health of people subjected to racism at work or elsewhere isbeing damaged, and the damage increases according to the frequencyaccording to which a person experiences racism

      The author tends to frequently extrapolate these correlational studies to be causational. I agree with the notion that racism harms health, but I wish she would be more careful with her language.

    9. urrent job referral practicesdo have a disparate impact on minorities and women, yet the practicescontinue unfettered by the government.

      The idea that using your network to hire people results in disparities.

    10. Yearby, R. (2018), Racial Disparities in Health Status and Access to Healthcare: The Continuation of Inequality in the United States Due to Structural Racism. Am J Econ Sociol, 77: 1113-1152. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajes.12230

    11. the lack of enforcement of civil rights laws is anexample of structural racism, which causes racial disparities in healthstatus and access to healthcare

      thesis

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    1. Ultimately the better care at like hospitals and stuff like that. [Focus group four]

      So interesting, because I perceive the opposite (as a cis, White, male provider)

    2. this was what was wrong

      Like he assumed what the chief complaint was?

    3. While young men generally did not report experiencing overt racism or discrimination in health care settings, they did describe the ways in which they were treated unfairly and received substandard care.

      A blurry distinction

    1. Rationalization

      A literal example of theses processes of standardization and evaluation would be standardized tests guiding resource allocation to schools

    2. Notably, while the creation of these standards may comprise efforts to prevent unequal access to resources, it is often the socially advantaged groups that already possess those resources that facilitate meeting those standards

      Not working to actively rebalance

    3. Because it is often reinforced through shared cultural processes, institutional racism is not easily associated with malicious intent on the part of specific individuals or groups. Furthermore, while the cultural processes are shaped and driven by historical pressures, historical accounts of the roots of inequality are often erased (Farmer, 2004) and this erasure leaves contemporary racial health inequalities without a clear link to structural forces.

      Invisible!

    4. These recommendations aim to continue and strengthen the shift from a biomedical/risk factor model that documents the health behaviors, experiences, and outcomes of marginalized racial groups, to a broad, systemic view that situates these inequalities within the social, economic, and political structures of societies that maintain the dominance of a single racial group.

      I'm guilty of the risk factor approach too.

    1. Consider also condescending public health efforts that take the form of apparently benevolent whites seeking to free people of color from “destructive health habits.”

      Need to listen!

    2. While concordance studies indicate many patients prefer practitioners from their racial-ethnic group (Saha, Komaromy, Koepsell, & Bindman, 1999), this situation is especially difficult for African Americans facing a mostly nonblack health care system.

      Should white people avoid Black physicians in elective cases given relative scarcity in order to make more room in their panels for Black patients?

    3. A growing number of studies (Burgess et al., 2008, Hausmann et al., 2008, Krieger, 1990, Ryan et al., 2008) have reported on the important, often revealing views of patients of color.

      And qualitative reporting would be super useful along with "quantitative" surveys and the like

    4. They most often blamed patients themselves—black patients for being passive and failing to make medical requests of practitioners. They rarely implicated white practitioners' discrimination in explaining inequality in care.

      Lack of self-reflection for change

    5. In 1945, white doctors, working with the Atomic Energy Commission, injected plutonium into patients of color without consent to observe effects of radiation, without follow-up care (Washington, 2006, Welsome, 1999).

      Wrong to do it in the first place, wrong not to follow up

    6. Beginning in the 1960s, black men seen by clinicians as anti-establishment protestors were frequently diagnosed as “schizophrenic” or otherwise mentally ill (Metzl, 2010).

      Great way to undermine revolutionary efforts

    7. White study directors sought a cure for the disease and to study how it manifested, positing that it affected neurological systems of white men but only sexual organs of black men--because in these directors' racist framing blacks had primitive brains and sexual desires.

      Flawed and harmful reasoning on multiple levels

    8. All physician-patient relationships, especially those involving white (or white-oriented) physicians and patients of color, are relationships shaped by societal-power imbalances, and thus are matters of public health.

      I appreciate the framing of this as affecting health at multiple levels of influence.

    9. The majority-white decisionmakers include public health researchers and policymakers, medical educators and officials, hospital administrators, and insurance and pharmaceutical executives, as well as important medical personnel.

      Description of the white majority medical/health elite.

    1. Although we find the evidence of the health effects of structural racism to be convincing, and supported by more than a century of wide-ranging theoretical and empirical scholarship, it remains marginalized and eclipsed by other research priorities.

      It's not an either or thing, but I wish that there was more emphasis placed on research trying to actively dismantle structural racism, rather than simply documenting it.

    2. we must reflect on the ways our everyday, accepted practices reify race

      The imperative is on all of us to change

    3. innately diseased

      Emphasis on innately

    4. By the time Congress passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1964, lynching had become rare and the convict-leasing system had been long abandoned. But just months later, President Lyndon Johnson declared a “War on Crime,” which was followed in the next decade by President Richard Nixon's “War on Drugs,” both of which appealed to fears about supposed Black criminality.

      I don't think I had made the connection in how close in historical proximity these two events were.

    1. Racialized science, with its emphasis onidentifying immutable differences between racial groups,can be expected only to maintain and reinforce existingracial inequality, in that its adherents indirectly argue thatno degree of government intervention or social change willalter the skills and abilities of different racial groups

      Whether explicit or not.

    2. In the early 20th century, intelligence tests became thedominant interest of scientists who were seeking ways ofdocumenting significant differences, especially betweenBlacks and Whites.

      Intelligence as the most important distinguishing characteristics

    3. There is widespread agreement in historical andsociological studies about the following characteristics:

      Formalized rules of racial ideology

    4. Ethnicity was recognized asplastic and transmissible, but race conveyed the notion ofdifferences that could not be transcended.

      Power demands assimilation to other ethnicities, but enforces fixed differences with race.

    5. It follows from this brief account of historical factsthat physical characteristics should never be included in adefinition of ethnic identity.

      Never?

    6. such conflict has not been perceived as being racial. Nu-merous wars, historical and contemporary, around theglobe, including both world wars, attest to the reality ofethnic conflict as primarily a local phenomenon (Barth,1998; A. Smedley, 1999b). Thus, most human conflictshave not been racial, and there is no reason for antagonismto exist or persist simply because protagonists are identifiedas racially different.

      Distinguishing racial from ethnic conflict

    7. Our aim is not to review the psychological literatureregarding the construction of race but to bring anthropo-logical and historical perspectives to the study of race.

      Lens of the article

    8. and more recently, Rushton(1995) and Rowe (Rowe, 2002; Rowe & Cleveland, 1996)

      Contemporary researchers arguing for inferior intellects by race.

    9. Smedley A, Smedley BD. Race as biology is fiction, racism as a social problem is real: Anthropological and historical perspectives on the social construction of race. Am Psychol. 2005 Jan;60(1):16-26. doi: 10.1037/0003-066X.60.1.16. PMID: 15641918.

    1. What was your learning?

      Not only did medical schools use black bodies for dissection, they advertised their abundance in the South as a point of promotion.

      My home state of IN had the first forced sterilization law in 1907.

      Forced sterilization continued way past it becoming outlawed into the 80's and beyond (especially in carceral settings).

      The concept of a lung block where poor people with tuberculosis (often Black) were concentrated.

      Black citizens in Pittsburgh pioneered paramedic-staffed EMS ambulance services.

      How did the content of the readings add to or further your understanding of structural racism (e.g., as a construct, how it's conceptualized, how it's operationalized) and its relation to health outcomes/inequities/disparities)?

      This article gave several novel examples (to me) of how explicit structurally racist practices have continued into contemporary times to my own life.

      What can be extrapolated from the literature and used for practice (e.g., clinical work), development and implementation (e.g., policy, procedure, initiative), etc.

      I would promote a broader panel of reproductive services as advocated for by social justice movements (eg. better access to safe childbirth, anti-sterilization, and child care).

    2. Also during this time, Black citizens in Pittsburgh ran the Freedom House Ambulance Service that pioneered paramedic-staffed emergency medical services and contributed to the development of national standards in emergency care.

      New concept to me

    3. African Americans with tuberculosis were the focus of Lung Blocks in Baltimore and St Louis where, writes historian Taylor Desloge, “coercive and often discriminatory policies [were] designed to control and monitor patients”.

      New concept to me

    4. Dorothy Roberts has shown in Killing the Black Body that some Black women were sterilised without their knowledge or consent into the 1970s and 1980s.

      Practices continuing past their removal from law

    5. The first compulsory sterilisation law was passed in Indiana in 1907

      My home state

    6. Medical schools relied on enslaved Black bodies as “anatomical material” and recruited students in southern states by advertising its abundance.

      Enslavement as recruiting promotion.

    1. What was your learning?

      Race can be measured in different ways based on the relative perspectives of subject and observer.

      Street Race - the idea of asking someone to reflect on how others who don't know you perceive you, might be a helpful way to distinguish within group differences for those ascribed or self-identifying as Latino.

      How did the content of the readings add to or further your understanding of structural racism (e.g., as a construct, how it's conceptualized, how it's operationalized) and its relation to health outcomes/inequities/disparities)?

      The social construct of someone's race can morph based on the contextual environment of a community and other people relative to which the subject is being compared.

      What can be extrapolated from the literature and used for practice (e.g., clinical work), development and implementation (e.g., policy, procedure, initiative), etc.

      When designing a survey, I would consider asking about race from multiple vantage points, including street race.

    2. Our specific question on “street race” was: “ If you were walking down the street,what race do you think other Americans who do not know you personally would assumeyou were based on what you look like?”

      Street-race question

    3. ascribed

      To regard as arising from a specified cause or source

    4. Ourself-rated health measure takes into the consideration the recommendations by Sanchezand Vargas (2015), who confirm Viruell-Fuentes et al. (2011), work that researchersshould be using “mas o menos” instead of “regular” as the Spanish translation of “fair”health (as “regular” overinflates poor health). We acknowledge these recommendationsand use “mas o menos” rather than the traditional “regular” in our analysis.

      Good practical consideration.

    5. Monk (2015:20) concludes that it isimperative that we consider the “relationality” of skin color as the meaning of race in agiven context has the potential to shape the pathways of wellness and illness throughracialization and embodiment.

      So it's the idea that racial color is relative to someone else's?

    6. López, Nancy, et al. "Whiteness Matters for Health: Measuring Racialization Among Latinas and Latinos in the US Using Self-Identified Race, Street Race and Ascribed Race."

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  5. Sep 2022
    1. First

      When to use Poisson vs. Beta-Binomial: "First, λ is not a proportion limited to be between 0 and 1, but rather a rate parameter that can take on any positive value (e.g., we can’t receive -7 calls per day). Thus, a Beta prior for λ won’t work. Further, each data point Yi is a count that can technically take on any non-negative integer in {0,1,2,…}, and thus is not limited by some number of trials n as is true for the Binomial. Not to fret. Our study of λ will introduce us to a new conjugate family, the Gamma-Poisson."

    1. Ours is perhaps the first study to use the model in the Indian context and utilize individual-level data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) to examine the effects of factors like spatial and nonlinear covariates, including survival status of older siblings during infancy, (captures the clustering of infant deaths) on the probability of infant death of the index child.

      What makes this study unique.

    2. The Bayesian geoadditive discrete-time survival model is one of the recently developed techniques which helps in drawing meaningful conclusions about the spatial pattern of clustered infant deaths.

      Premise of model

  6. Aug 2022
  7. Jul 2022
    1. No fecal sample was positive for RNA prior to detection of the virus in nasal samples.

      Wouldn't you expect that in this model given the inoculation was nasal? One might expect that inoculation would take place in more variable locations in the wild.

  8. Jun 2022
  9. Apr 2022
    1. Similarly, 24 h urine NEQ has been suggested to be a surrogate measure for smoke exposure (Wang et al., 2011). 

      Discussion of the results of analysis for NEQ seems to be missing here.

    2. Figure 1

      I'm guessing the black dots represent the mean and the bounds of the boxes represent the 95% confidence interval, but it would be useful if the caption stated so explicitly.

    3. The rationale for data exclusion was documented. 

      After scanning through the tables in Appendix A, I'm not seeing where the rationales for dropping from 84 studies to 50 are documented.

    4. equivalent

      is* equivalent

    5. Four databases (PubMed®, ScienceDirect®, TOXNET®, and Google Scholar™) were queried for each search to represent relevant publications in the field of cigarette smoking.

      Consider putting this sentence after the search strategy sentence.

    6. This analysis was initiated by scientists from five global tobacco companies involved in the Cooperation Centre for Scientific Research Relative to Tobacco (CORESTA) Biomarker Sub-Group (BMSG). Founded in 1956 under French law and consisting of 158 member organizations across 37 countries, CORESTA is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote international cooperation in scientific research relative to tobacco and its derived products. CORESTA seeks to develop standardized nomenclature, definitions, and methodologies as well as provide guidelines, reports, and training across four research domains: agronomy and leaf integrity, phytopathology and genetics, product technology, and smoke science. One of the objectives of the BMSG is to review present knowledge of tobacco and smoking related BOEs and effects. We share the findings from our pooling of weighted average-observed values in this manuscript.

      Consider putting this paragraph in the Disclosure Statement

    7. We estimate a single pooled weighted average representative of the population level exposure.

      This sentence is redundant.

    8. from 2008 through 2020

      Why this time period?

    9. Total urinary NNAL represents metabolites of a tobacco-specific nitrosamine (TSNA), 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK, nicotine-derived nitrosamine ketone), which is found in the particulate-phase of the smoke aerosol and identified as a carcinogen (U.S. Food and Drug Administration, 2012).

      This sentence seems off grammatically.

    10. relative effects

      Consider saying "relative exposure effects"

    11. biological matrices

      Maybe this is a domain-specific term, but I am not familiar with matrix being used in this context. I usually think of it as associated with extracellular tissue space. Consider instead, "While biomarkers of tobacco exposure can be measured in many different biological samples, most are measured through the collection of blood or urine."

    12. most harmful tobacco products

      By what standard of comparison?

    13. CORESTA

      Consider writing out the full name of this acronym.

    14. 5.21 %

      Delete space between the percentage sign and number.

  10. Aug 2021
    1. According to Pilsen staff, about 50 percent of those who come to the shelter move to a subsidized permanent housing destination. Of the other half, some return to the encampment, some leave without notifying staff of their destination, and some move in with family or friends.

      What's the average time to placement in permanent supportive housing?

    2. The city fenced off the Triangle

      How is this different from clearing and closing?

    1. That means that black New Yorkers will be barred from public accommodations at a far higher rate than will white New Yorkers.

      This is a valid point and something to be considered carefully. The Black community overall has an understandably higher degree of distrust in our nation's medical establishment given historic injustice. Special efforts need to be made to build trust and heighten equitable access to vaccination. As said by one of the leftist commentators, it is also a good idea to target these mandates to mostly non-essential businesses and services so that we can blunt the negative impact of inequitable access on the essential stuff like food and medicines.

    2. There’s less justification for government coercion now than months ago with the pandemic having subsided and the city’s hospitals no longer facing the threat of being overwhelmed by Covid-19 cases.

      I would prefer government to be proactive, rather than reactive though. And delta variant cases are only rising.

    3. Imposing vaccine certification requirements on nonessential businesses would send a strong signal that having no shot equals having no fun.”

      Not really sure that's the right messaging strategy for building trust and mutual accountability.

    4. But if officials want people to take those assurances seriously, they should pass laws that will make people whole in the (very rare) cases they’re injured by the vaccines… 

      Reasonable to me without knowing all the legal ramifications.

    5. People who choose to go unprotected are risking mostly themselves.

      Not everyone goes unvaccinated by choice because of other contraindications. Those who do have a choice, increase the hazard risk to those who don't.

  11. Jul 2021
    1. At worst, disparately observed and entirely unenforced mask mandates threaten to accelerate the spread of this disease [by creating incentives for the unvaccinated to gather among themselves].

      This is an interesting point and I do think such behavioral consequences of policy should be considered.

    2. Why get jabbed if life is going back into lockdown

      So we can go out of lockdown?

    3. This is what success looks like… It is well past time we move past the hysteria and get on with our lives.

      Responding to trends proactively does not equate to hysteria. We should expect that cases will continue to rise as the weather gets coolers and if vaccination rates remain at current levels.

    4. you have nothing to worry about

      Again, nothing is a strong word and can undermine trust for the small percentage of people who still develop complications of COVID despite being vaccinated. We need to be more comfortable speaking in terms of relative risk rather than black and white.

    5. Both groups are at extraordinarily low risk.

      Unvaccinated children may be at low risk for hazard to their own health, but what about spreading to others like unvaccinated relatives?

    6. pointless

      Strong word.

    7. You can’t claim you ‘believe in science’ unless you also believe in the science of vaccine efficacy… What’s more, the masking endgame seems unclear.

      This is a false dichotomy. In safety/quality, we talk about a layered approach to reduce risk. As long as we have significant portions of the population unvaccinated. Masks can play a part.

  12. Jun 2021
    1. Also, individuals who had no documented receipt of homeless services, were more likely to be in the youngest age category. Relatively young homeless individuals are likely more physically able to cope with the burden of homelessness. Also, there may be reduced awareness of services among the younger homeless population.

      Could the researchers distinguish unsheltered homelessness on the street from "couch-surfing" homelessness, which is common among young people?

    2. Since dates are considered Protected Health Information, data sharing agreements prohibited sharing dates at a level more granular than calendar year; thus, we could not assess temporal relationships between housing and healthcare services.

      Did the researchers consider making synthetic datasets?

    1. Medicare

      Does he mean Medicaid?

    2. This virus does not does not look at your race, or your color. It looks at vulnerability.

      Perfect distillation of the counter to "COVID-19 doesn't discriminate on color". It doesn't matter if the virus does or not. Our society already has and that leads to longstanding disparities in vulnerability --> disparities in adverse outcomes.

    1. Importantly, medical respite care is distinct from skilled nursing facilities, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, hospice care, and supportive housing programs.⁷

      How so though?

  13. May 2021
    1. Conduct a citywide housing condition assessment.

      Data opportunities

    2. f necessary, the city could improve participation in the landlord academy by making participation a pre-requisite for applying for city rehabilitation loans or similar funds. Landlords that do participate could receive a “good neighbor” designation that they could include in their rental listings.

      Implementation incentives

    3. The city could also make such plans required for all properties receiving city subsidy dollars.

      Enforcement mechanism

  14. Apr 2021
  15. Mar 2021
    1. Preference and need should be used to refer Veterans to VASH; without standardized, comprehensive need measures, preference often takes precedent and particularly vulnerable Veterans with the greatest need for VASH may not receive its services.

      Ethical dilemma

    2. As VASH Veterans use the VA more than currently homeless Veterans, they may have relatively higher DCG,10 contributing to the mixed findings of our hypotheses.

      I was hoping they would bring up this Catch-22

    3. We used the “behavioral model for vulnerable populations,”11 which identifies factors that predispose individuals to access services, which interplay with factors enabling service use, and needs to influence health behaviors. Adjusting for predisposing (demographics) and need (medical complexity and disability) characteristics, we identified differences in health service utilization behaviors (diagnoses treated) between VASH and currently homeless Veterans.

      Analytic framework

    1. Furthermore, as homelessness is associated with a wide range of chronic disease such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, schizophrenia, diabetes and hepatitis C [117-119]

      Other chronic diseases associated with homelessness

    2. It is also of note that, despite a wide literature search, no new methodologically strong or moderate studies were found that examined interventions for homeless women, families or children.

      Research need

    3. These data are consistent with findings reported by Hwang et al. [6] that attending sessions of an educational program aimed at reducing sexual risk behaviours for HIV was associated with reduced sexual risk behaviour for HIV in homeless runaway youth when compared to usual care

      What was the measured duration of treatment effect?

    4. In addition, abstinence-contingent housing appears to provide greater impact on sustained abstinence than non-abstinence-contingent housing

      Shouldn't this clarify that we're specifically talking about cocaine use?

    5. utilized mental health services

      But were the services inpatient or outpatient?

    6. There were no differences in mean adjusted consecutive weeks of abstinence between the NH and NACH groups (p = .51).

      I wonder if this would be different if it were a type of substance use with MAT available.

  16. onlinelibrary.wiley.com onlinelibrary.wiley.com
    1. The accessibility of hospital emergency departments may be higher dueto better location and transportation facilities, compared to healthcenters and offices of private physicians.

      Easier access

    1. Nosuchplanforrevitalizationinacommunityborderingauniversitysucceededinthecasesreviewedwherepartnershipswerenotmade between the university and the community.

      Fate tied to involvement from the university.

    2. TheintersectionsatWestStreetandIndianaAvenueisextremelywideandproduceshighvolumesoftraffic,whichconsequently,makestheAvenuelessdesirableforwalkingtraffic.

      Placemaking opportunity?

    3. Therefore,unlessalong-standingrelationshipwiththetheatreisestablished,theareawillnotbeawareofitscurrentprogramming.

      Interested in how seriously collabs have been pursued.

    4. TheintervieweeidentifiedtheareahasreceivedsignificanthelpfromSENDandbenefittedgreatlyfromthecreationoftheFirstFridayeventsandtheCulturalTrail.

      Does Walker Theater participate in First Friday?

    5. Theintervieweestatedthishascausedsomediscomfortasdesiresfortheneighborhood,neighborbehavior,andgeneraldesireforFountainSquarediffergreatlyamongdifferentpopulations

      Sometimes some discomfort is a good thing.

    6. TheintervieweestatedtheCulturalTrailalleviatedsafetyconcernsforpedestriansandincreasedfoottraffic,aswellasmakingtheareamoreattractiveforpotentialhomeowners.

      An example of city investment being a benefit to the neighborhood

    7. Theintervieweeassertsthedeclineofcultureexperiencedintheareacanbedirectlycorrelatedtotheamountofgovernmentsupportaffordedtominorities.

      Lack of investment from local government.

    8. FLANNERHOUSEHOMES/INDIANALANDMARK

      Would like to have seen more direct quotes

    9. Theuniversityandneighborhoodneedtohaveastableandreliableformofcommunication.

      Read long-term

    10. Considertheregionasacollectionofurbanvillages

      Probably relevant to the Indianapolis sprawl too

    11. necessarycomponentinidentifyinggentrificationinvolvesthedisplacementofaspecificracialorsocialclass

      Yes

    12. revitalization

      Again, just feels like a loaded term that implies inherent positivity.