Increased sensitivity to the differential burdens of environmental hazards across communities, as well as to the intersections of poverty, race, and environmental health, has highlighted the value of community-based participatory research (Weed and McKeown 2003).
As that arm of public health research concerned with understanding the health effects of the many environments in which humans live and work, the field is intimately connected with social concerns about environmental quality and disparities of power and privilege that place differential burdens upon members of underserved communities.
While much of the differential burden of chronic health conditions resolved when jail-based participants were compared to community-dwelling adults in the lowest quintile of net worth (<$24,000), the higher rates of geriatric conditions persisted.
For now, the reasons for the asynchronous nature of the timing of global influenza epidemics and their differential burden of disease in different regions, as well as the driving force behind the timing of influenza epidemics in Singapore remains a mystery.
And finally, because the differential burden of administration of a scale with two or one item seems negligible.
Some have called this racially differential burden of cumulative stress the "weathering hypothesis" (Astone et al. 2002; Geronimus 1996).
Unlike the Ananthakrishnan et al. study, we trended these rates over time to assess the differential burden of inpatient health care utilization for the different types of infection.
Taken as a whole, the differential burden of pollutogens and access to salutogenic resources has important implications for health and environmental health disparities [ 1, 2, 41].
The staffing of ART sites adopted a uniform approach across the province and its districts, irrespective of differential AIDS burdens and needs among the five districts, or the varying functions performed by different types of ART sites.
Furthermore, ongoing research is contributing to the understanding of differential disease burdens between women and men in regard to health conditions common to both sexes, in addition to the application of sex and gender lenses to female-specific diseases alone.
SEP and race/ethnicity, in and of themselves, are not likely to explain the differential body burdens of these chemicals; rather, they serve as surrogates for activities, behaviors, or circumstances that may actually contribute to differences.
