- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Nursing Roles and Practices
- Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Healthcare professionals’ stress and burnout
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Employment and Welfare Studies
- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Health Policy Implementation Science
- Cardiovascular Health and Risk Factors
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Nursing Diagnosis and Documentation
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Ethics in Clinical Research
University of South Carolina
2022-2024
University of Maryland, College Park
2018
Examining how spatial access to health care varies across geography is key documenting structural inequalities in the United States. In this article and accompanying StoryMap, our team identified ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) with largest share of minoritized racial ethnic populations measured distances nearest hospital offering emergency services, trauma care, obstetrics, outpatient surgery, intensive cardiac care. rural areas, ZCTAs high Black or American Indian/Alaska Native...
Reduced food security is associated with higher healthcare expenditures and increased risk of coronary heart disease, angina, attacks, hypertension. State-level responses to the COVID-19 pandemic support policies may contribute regional differences in financial strain insecurity, which could have implications for cardiovascular outcomes. Hypothesis: We assessed hypothesis that there geographic variation insecurity United States three years after start pandemic. Methods: This study utilizes...
Many research activities have focused on SARS-CoV-2 infection and subsequent COVID-19 respiratory illness during the pandemic. However, significant racial inequities emerged months after pandemic began. The similarity between racial/ ethnic disparities in those for other diseases raised awareness about context risk exposure healthcare access. purpose of this study is to examine social structural determinants health among survivors, carepartners, perspectives stakeholders who experienced...