2020
Toward Reducing Health Information Inequities in the Caribbean: Our Experience Building a Participatory Health Informatics Project.
Wang K, Hambleton I, Linnander E, Marenco L, Hassan S, Kumara M, Fredericks LE, Harrigan S, Hasse TA, Brandt C, Nunez-Smith M. Toward Reducing Health Information Inequities in the Caribbean: Our Experience Building a Participatory Health Informatics Project. Ethnicity & Disease 2020, 30: 193-202. PMID: 32269461, PMCID: PMC7138447, DOI: 10.18865/ed.30.s1.193.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHealth information systemsInformation systemsSharing of dataData infrastructureHealth informatics projectsDisparate sourcesExperience buildingInformatics projectsInformatics approachInformation inequitiesTransdisciplinary Collaborative CenterPrecision medicinePrecision medicine approachSharingInfrastructureHealth disparitiesMedicine approachSystemHealth of peoplePotential mechanismsTechnologyCollaborative CenterIntegrationData
2018
Non-communicable chronic diseases and timely breast cancer screening among women of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort Study
Wang KH, Thompson TA, Galusha D, Friedman H, Nazario CM, Nunez M, Maharaj RG, Adams OP, Nunez-Smith M, on behalf of the ECHORN Writing Group. Non-communicable chronic diseases and timely breast cancer screening among women of the Eastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort Study. Cancer Causes & Control 2018, 29: 315-324. PMID: 29423760, PMCID: PMC6587190, DOI: 10.1007/s10552-018-1005-4.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNon-communicable chronic diseasesTimely breast cancer screeningBreast cancer screeningChronic diseasesCancer screeningBreast cancerEastern Caribbean Health Outcomes Research Network (ECHORN) Cohort StudyUsual sourceReceipt of mammographyChronic disease controlCohort studyEligible womenCancer deathCross-sectional data analysisPreventive screeningCancer preventionSubstantial burdenClinical providersTimely screeningDiabetesTimely mammographyBivariate analysisHypertensionDisease controlDisease