Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Finance, Global

Chapter 45 - Beyond sex and gender differences: The case for women's health research

Principles of Gender-Specific Medicine, Fourth Edition, 2023, pp 699-711

This chapter aligns with SDG Goal 5: Gender equality and Goal 10: Reduced inequalities by highlighting the frequency with which women are misdiagnosed and considering how sex and gender can better be implemented in healthcare research.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment; Health and population, Global

Refining fine-tuned transformers with hand-crafted features for gender screening on question-answering communities

Information Fusion, Volume 92, April 2023

The article introduces a novel approach called PTM-SFFS that effectively combines pre-trained transformer models (PTMs) with traditional statistical classifiers and linguistic features for the task of gender screening on community question-answering (cQA) platforms.

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gender medicine; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

Shaquita Bell: Changing the conversation on race and health

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Volume 7, March 2023

Shaquita Bell, who is both Black and Indigenous, recently became the 33rd Native-identifying full professor of medicine in the USA. Bell's work questions the idea of race as a driver of health outcomes, and aims to improve understanding of race as a social rather than a biological construct.

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Gender equality and women's empowerment, North America

Prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of US community-dwelling older adults with communication disabilities, using the national health and aging trends survey

Journal of Communication Disorders, Volume 102, 1 March 2023

This study seeks to describe the prevalence and sociodemographic characteristics of community-dwelling older adults experiencing difficulties with understanding others or being understand when communicating in their usual language.

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, North America

Association between disability status and health care utilisation for common childhood illnesses in 10 countries in sub-Saharan Africa: a cross-sectional study in the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 57, March 2023

This Article supports SDG 3 by examining inequities of care between disabled and non-disabled children in Africa, focusing on common childhood illnesses. Absolute differences were small, although higher odds of some illnesses were observed in disabled children. Children with disabilities should be considered in efforts to address social determinants of health.

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Health and wellbeing, Africa

Peer socialization in an oral preschool classroom

Language and Communication, Volume 89, March 2023

This study shows the communicative practices that facilitate peer socialization processes in an oral classroom for deaf or hard-of-hearing preschoolers.

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Health and population; Education, North America

The Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases researchers’ statement on non-communicable disease research with Indigenous peoples

Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 11, March 2023

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, Global

Translational Surgery Handbook for Designing and Conducting Clinical and Translational Research: Chapter 92 - Population- and setting-specific implementation

Translational Surgery

Handbook for Designing and Conducting Clinical and Translational Research

2023, Pages 591-597

The extensive history of abuse and ongoing mistreatment of Black Americans continues to foster apprehension and distrust of healthcare providers. This has resulted in substantial barriers for modern healthcare to appropriately address the needs of Black patients. These concerns have been visibly manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic. This article supports WHO SDG 3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reduced Inequalities.

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healthcare; cultural influences; population\, Africa; Antarctica; Asia; Europe; Global; Middle East; North America; Oceania; Pacific; South America

Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building - Chapter 9: Integrating indigenous knowledge with science to suitably tackle disasters due to climate and environmental change: an overview of the progress and way forward

Multi-Hazard Vulnerability and Resilience Building: Cross Cutting Issues, 2023, Pages 127-143

This chapter advances the UN SDG goals 11 and 10 by developing a practical philosophy that elaborates elements from the Indigenous knowledge system for hybrid epistemologies from which actions can be developed for disaster risk reduction.

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