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The Importance of Community Resources for Breastfeeding [Child and adolescent health]

Annals of Family Medicine

race/ethnicity, income, education). SAFE used a stratified, two-stage, clustered design to obtain a nationally representative sample of mothers of infants; mothers were enrolled from 32 US birth hospitals, January 2011-March 2014. Context: Breastfeeding (BF) has many benefits for infant health. 2.3]) and exclusive BF (aOR 1.7 [95%

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Episode 155: Antiracism in Medicine Series – Episode 5 – Racism, Power, and Policy: Building the Antiracist Health Systems of the Future

The Clinical Problem Solvers

Understand that collective action and a focus on community, rather than individualism, are most effective in combating racism and achieving health equity. One of the biggest barriers to health equity is the narrow focus on the individual and a failure to see health as a widespread community issue. Published June 10, 2014.

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Multifactorial Drivers of Cognitive Decline in Diabetes

Physician's Weekly

prevalence of MCI in individuals with T2DM. Lower education levels were linked to higher risk (OR = 0.82, P = 0.0001), along with smoking (OR = 1.44, P = 0.003), hypertension (OR = 2.25, P < 0.001), and cardiovascular disease (CVD) (OR = 2.61, P < 0.001). Source: frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/10.3389/fendo.2025.1617248/full

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Episode 322: Antiracism in Medicine – Episode 24 – Leveraging Narrative Medicine to Cultivate Antiracist Praxis

The Clinical Problem Solvers

During this episode, we hear from Zahra Khan, an educator and editor who has written extensively on abolition in medicine, and Dr. Sayantani DasGupta, a physician-educator, prolific children’s book author and faculty at the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University.

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Time to stop driving? Podcast with Emmy Betz and Terri Cassidy

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That’s where it really gets to this individual risks and balances, individual situation. Emmy: So I think shifting that a little bit is what helped me do a lot of the education that I do to therapists and physicians, just to have it on their radar. Alex: Yeah. Terri, I wonder if you could comment on that.

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PC for People Experiencing Homelessness: Naheed Dosani

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Just out of fellowship, Naheed built a palliative care program for homeless persons called the Palliative Education and Care for the Homeless (PEACH) Program. link] PEACH Good Wishes Program A program that provides meaningful gifts for unhoused individuals who are terminally ill. Today we discuss: What is the best terminology?

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Episode 141: Antiracism in Medicine Series Episode 2 – Dismantling Race-Based Medicine Part 1: Historical and Ethical Perspectives with Edwin Lindo

The Clinical Problem Solvers

This education needs to span the whole MedEd continuum. This is done on an individual level, by offering existing support and resources, as well as on a systemic level through advocacy. racial essentialism). Definitions matter​. Additional references and papers as mentioned in episode Roberts, D. The New Press. Univ Of Minnesota Press.