“…Of the social vulnerabilities endorsed, economic hardship featured prominently with 31% of caregivers having difficulty paying for food, housing or utilities and 12% having problems with appliances working at home. …”
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“…Shared life events resulting in their initiating and sustaining an OUD involved continuous hardship into adulthood, mental illness and concurrent benzodiazepine use disorder, often resulting in harrowing accounts of participants’ loneliness and lack of life purpose. …”
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“…INTRODUCTION: A socio-economic (SE) deprivation index is a measure that aims to provide an indication of SE hardship and disadvantage in the population. Our aim was constructing 10 Socio-Economonic and Health Deprivation Indexes (SEHDI) by means of the same method. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: International literature reveals that single mothers experience increased levels of chronic stress, which is mainly due to economic hardship and reduced levels of social support. Eventually this leads to psychological distress. …”
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“…However, it is not known whether disaster-related prenatal maternal stress (PNMS), or which aspect of the maternal stress experience (i.e., objective hardship, subjective distress, and cognitive appraisal), influences amygdala volumes. …”
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“…There are few studies regarding the impact of additional psychosocial barriers to liver transplant including financial hardship, lack of caregiver support, polysubstance abuse, and issues with medical non-compliance. …”
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“…Key factors reported by students as affecting retention were: family and peer support; competing obligations; academic preparation and prior educational experiences; access to the Indigenous Student Support Centre; financial hardship; and racism and discrimination. The most successful strategies implemented by nursing, health and medical science faculties to improve retention were multi-layered and included: culturally appropriate recruitment and selection processes; comprehensive orientation and pre-entry programs; building a supportive and enabling school culture; appointing Indigenous academics; embedding Indigenous content throughout the curriculum; developing mentoring and tutoring programs; flexible delivery of content; partnerships with the Indigenous Student Support Centre; providing social and financial support; and ‘leaving the university door open’ for students who leave before graduation to return. …”
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“…IMPORTANCE: Many rural and agricultural communities experience hardship from a shortage of clinicians. The aging of the clinician population threatens future supply in these areas. …”
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“…It is crucial to understand what are the major illnesses responsible for high OPP at the household level to help policymakers prioritize key areas of actions to protect the household from 100% financial hardship for seeking health care as part of universal health coverage. …”
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“…RESULTS: Living in a rural environment and financial hardship were associated with greater reporting of independent and dependent life events. …”
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“…Genetic studies have revealed that KS is caused by loss-of-function mutations in several genes including the prokineticin receptor 2 (PROKR2) gene (Abreu et al., 2008, Hardelin & Dode 2008). Mice with global deletion of Prokr2 replicate the phenotype of KS patients (Ng et al., 2005, Matsumoto et al., 2006). …”
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“…After settlement, HIV acquisition was associated with short/transactional but also with concurrent partnerships and not with social hardship. CONCLUSION: Two profiles of HIV post-migration acquisition emerged. …”
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“…The principal themes of their narratives encompass: 1) adverse physical and sexual experiences; 2) emotional problems; 3) cancer-related stigma; 4) challenges to obtaining health-related information; 5) financial hardship; and 6) experience of strengthening family ties in order to provide them with support. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Inadequate financing is one of the major barriers in securing equitable access to high-quality physical rehabilitation services, without imposing financial hardship. Despite this, no sufficient attention has been paid to physical rehabilitation services and no specific financial resources have been allocated to such services in many countries including Iran. …”
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“…CONCLUSION: Despite insurance coverage, financial hardship remains the number one difficulty MDR-TB patients encountered in relatively financially affluent cities. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: Transgender and non-binary people are disproportionately burdened by barriers to quality healthcare, mental health challenges, and economic hardship. This study examined the impact of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and subsequent control measures on gender-affirming care, mental health, and economic stability among transgender and non-binary people globally. …”
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“…Prevalence and attributable burden of headaches, definite and probable migraines, definite and probable tension-type headaches, chronic headaches (≥15 days/month), and probable medication-overuse headaches were assessed using the Headache-Attributed Restriction, Disability, Social Handicap, and Impaired Participation (HARDSHIP) questionnaire for children and adolescents. …”
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“…Background: Concerns have been raised that health and societal causes surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic were misappropriated by companies to promote their unhealthy products to vulnerable populations during a time of increased stress and hardship (i.e., COVID-washing). Social media is a common medium for unhealthy foods and beverage marketing due to lack of regulation and low levels of monitoring. …”
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“…BACKGROUND: The world is being challenged by the COVID-19 outbreak that resulted in a universal concern and economic hardship. It is a leading public health emergency across the globe in general and developing countries in particular. …”
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“…Although these results are largely encouraging, we warn that these trends might not be sustainable throughout prolonged economic hardship and service disruptions. FUNDING: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. …”
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