Elsevier, Current Developments in Nutrition, Volume 9, Issue 3, March 2025, 104493
The article dicusses the need for early, culturally grounded interventions to support healthy beverage habits among Navajo and other Indigenous children. While early childhood education programs are generally promoting healthy choices, most children remain at risk due to inadequate hydration and high sugar-sweetened beverage intake, compounded by ongoing challenges in water accessibility and safety. Strengthening access to safe drinking water and leveraging Indigenous cultural traditions can serve as protective factors, supporting better health outcomes and reducing disparities in diet-related diseases for American Indian children. Future efforts should focus on community engagement and culturally responsive strategies to sustain healthy habits.
Elsevier, Sexual & Reproductive Healthcare, 2025, 101080
Black women face significant disparities in IVF outcomes due to barriers such as discrimination, lack of knowledge, cultural insensitivity, and high costs, highlighting the need for culturally competent care and better education to improve access and outcomes.
This scoping review identified various adaptation strategies to protect maternal and child health from climate change effects, highlighting the need for more tailored, context-specific interventions involving pregnant women and local healthcare services.
Elsevier, American Journal of Preventive Cardiology, Volume 21, March 2025
Objectives: Traditional cardiovascular risk (CVR) stratification does not consider CVR enhancers (CVRE). Women present under-recognized CVRE factors that may lead to arterial stiffness (AS).
This pilot study examined the psycho-physical demands experienced by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women during several Traditional Indigenous Games and recommends culturally relevant interventions to improve physical activity levels and health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.
Elsevier, Cancer Pathogenesis and Therapy, Volume 3, March 2025
Background: Population-based penetrance studies of breast cancer gene 1/2 (BRCA1/2) pathogenic or likely pathogenic (P/LP) variants in the Eastern Chinese population are currently lacking; thus, we
Elsevier, American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Volume 68, March 2025
Introduction: There are large racial disparities in maternal health that cannot be explained by education, income, or other individual-level risk factors.
Elsevier, Current Problems in Diagnostic Radiology, Volume 54, 1 March 2025
The journey to parenthood is often delayed or prolonged for physicians, which disproportionately negatively impact women physicians. A better understanding of the resources and realities to achieve parenthood allows for more timely family planning while pursuing career advancements in radiology, particularly for medical students and our radiology trainees and early-career colleagues.
Elsevier, Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare, Volume 43, March 2025
Investing in midwifery education is an investment in health and economic development, as midwives can provide about 90% of essential sexual, reproductive, maternal, neonatal, and adolescent health needs
