North America

This article concludes that mainstream nutrition approaches inadequately capture the full meaning of nourishment for Indigenous peoples, as they neglect critical spiritual, emotional, and relational aspects. By centering Indigenous worldviews and lived experiences, the Indigenous Nourishment Model offers a more comprehensive and culturally appropriate framework. This model not only challenges deficit-based narratives and epistemic injustices but also provides practical guidance for developing, implementing, and evaluating nutrition initiatives that honor and leverage the strengths of Indigenous foodways and knowledge systems. Ultimately, such holistic approaches can foster greater health equity and well-being for AI/AN/NH communities and beyond.

Elsevier,

Hygiene and Environmental Health Advances, 2024, 100099

This study explores thunderstorm asthma-related emergency department visits in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area and evaluated risk differences by sex and age.

This article evaluates whether prescribing rates for acute respiratory tract infections when antibiotics would be inappropriate by guidelines differed by race and socioeconomics.

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.
Elsevier,

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.
Elsevier,

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. 
The article provides a scoping review of the literature on United States doula programs and their outcomes to inform state-level policies.

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 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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