PREFACE by A.M. Brazal, R. Pieris

“…It is a community that goes beyond the boundaries of gender, class, or race/ethnicity, fostering the right relations with God, other peoples, and creation. …”
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Association between cancer stigma and cervical cancer screening uptake among women of Dhulikhel and Banepa, Nepal. by Bandana Paneru, Aerona Karmacharya, Alina Bharati, Soniya Makaju, Bikram Adhikari, Dikshya Kafle, Sunila Shakya, Donna Spiegelman, Sangini Seth, Anne Stangl, Aamod Dhoj Shrestha, Archana Shrestha

“…We adjusted socio-demographic: age, ethnicity, occupation, religion and education, and reproductive health variables: parity, family planning user, age of menarche and age at first sexual intercourse during multivariable logistic regression.…”
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Demographic and Clinical Presentation of Hospitalised Patients with SARS-CoV-2 During the First Omicron Wave by Mehool Patel, Elizabeth Aitken

“…Thirty percent of patients from Black, Asian, and minority ethnic backgrounds had COVID-19 pneumonitis compared with 19% of those with White ethnicity (p=0.002). …”
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Association between health insurance coverage and stage of diagnosis for cervical cancer among females in Indiana from 2011 - 2019 by Mrithula Suresh Babu, Monica L. Kasting, Natalia M. Rodriguez

“…Conclusion: Insurance status and race/ethnicity are associated with later stages of cervical cancer diagnosis. …”
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Trends in Glycemia between 2002 and 2016 among Incident Youth Cohorts Early in the Course of Type 1 Diabetes: The SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study by Daria Igudesman, Beth A. Reboussin, Katherine J. Souris, Catherine Pihoker, Lawrence Dolan, Jean M. Lawrence, Sharon Saydah, Dana Dabelea, Santica Marcovina, Noémie Clouet-Foraison, Faisal S. Malik, Elizabeth J. Mayer-Davis

“…We tested the interaction of year with race and ethnicity, sex, and insulin regimen to assess potential disparities. …”
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Heterogeneous association of health with patient and general practice characteristics by region, age and chronic condition: pooled cross-sectional study of patient-level data from... by Hugh Gravelle, Yan Feng, Vladimir Sergeevich Gordeev

“…Objectives To investigate the association of individual patient health with their characteristics, including income deprivation, ethnicity and gender, with the size, quality and staffing of their general practices, and how these associations and income-related health inequality vary across chronic conditions, regions and age bands.Design Using observational pooled cross-sectional individual patient survey data linked with data on general practice clinical quality and staffing and deprivation at Lower-Layer Super Output Area level. …”
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Hear me out: an audit of paediatric ventilation tube surgery wait times in patients with recurrent acute otitis media and/or otitis media with effusion at Christchurch Hospital by Analise Yunzhen Wang

“…Pacific patients had the shortest wait times of all ethnicities.…”
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JOSHUA 24 AND THE WELCOME OF FOREIGNERS by D G Firth

“… Although the book of Joshua is often read as being hostile to non-Israelites, this paper argues that its concern is not with ethnicity but rather with the nature of someone’s relationship to Yahweh. …”
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Inclusion of Diverse Learners in the Educational System by Eric D. Rubenstein, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Forms of diversity such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity/race, learning style, cognitive ability, gender, and ability to process and store knowledge can cause an “achievement gap” between students. …”
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Images du corps nikkei à São Paulo by Helena Prado

“…By considering a few common expressions from popular language and by examining recorded discourse, it aims to analyse what is presented as obvious: the body designated as “Japanese” in Brazil, one that is foreign, different and excluded from the body representations at work in the “national myth”.It will therefore be a matter of identifying the phenotypical markers at play, and showing what directly follows from them, namely a series of representations “naturally” associated with the Nikkei ethnicity, having to do with norms of aesthetics and social behaviour, with moral and intellectual values, and with collective and individual practices expected from Japanese Brazilians.…”
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Impact of healthy lifestyle on diabetes incidence among adults of different socioeconomic status in Guizhou province: a prospective cohort study by Yiying WANG, Min CHEN, Lieqiang ZHANG, Xin WANG, Wei ZHAN, Yunxi PAN, Xiaodeng ZHAO, Tao LIU

“…After adjustment for gender, age, ethnicity, marital status, place of residence, family history of diabetes, and number of healthy lifestyle factors, adults with an SES score of ≥ 12 had a 28.7% (HR = 0.713, 95%CI: 0.541 – 0.940) lower risk of diabetes compared with those with an SES score of ≤ 8. …”
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UK Biobank MRI data can power the development of generalizable brain clocks: A study of standard ML/DL methodologies and performance analysis on external databases by Marco Capó, Silvia Vitali, Georgios Athanasiou, Nicole Cusimano, Daniel García, Garth Cruickshank, Bipin Patel

“…To this end we designed a statistical framework to assess age prediction performance, the robustness of the prediction across cohort variability (database, machine type and ethnicity) and its potential as a biomarker for neurodegenerative conditions. …”
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Vision impairment and differential access to eye health services in Aotearoa New Zealand: a scoping review by Matire Harwood, Jacqueline Ramke, Joanna Black, Himal Kandel, Jaymie Tingkham Rogers, Ben Wilkinson

“…Over two-thirds of reported outcomes were disaggregated by at least two ethnicities. When outcomes were disaggregated by ethnicity, Māori and Pacific People were consistently included, and experienced worse access and outcomes compared with other New Zealanders.Conclusion The findings of this review highlight the presence of ethnic disparity in access to diabetic retinopathy and cataract services. …”
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Factors Associated with High Sodium Intake Assessed from 24-hour Urinary Excretion and the Potential Effect of Energy Intake by Fatimah Othman, Rashidah Ambak, Cheong Siew Man, Nor Azian Mohd Zaki, Mohd Hasnan Ahmad, Nur Shahida Abdul Aziz, Azli Baharuddin, Ruhaya Salleh, Tahir Aris

“…Our results suggested that sex, ethnicity, and energy-adjusted sodium consumption were strong risk factors associated with high sodium intake independent from energy and other potential confounding factors.…”
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The Effectiveness of Ultrasound Surveillance for Hepatocellular Carcinoma in a Canadian Centre and Determinants of Its Success by Korosh Khalili, Ravi Menezes, Tae Kyoung Kim, Leyla Kochak Yazdi, Hyun-Jung Jang, Suraj Sharma, Jordan Feld, Morris Sherman

“…BACKGROUND: The effectiveness of surveillance for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) using ultrasound (US) in North America has been questioned due to the predominance of patients of Caucasian ethnicity and larger body habitus.…”
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O Conselho Estadual do Povo de Terreiro: religiões afro-brasileiras e políticas públicas no Rio Grande do Sul by Marcelo Tadvald, Francisco Abrahão Gonzaga

“…Following, we argue about some persecutory actions by local parliamentarians in recent years (2003, 2005, 2015), which sought to restrict liturgical practices that involve the free exercise of afro-religions in Rio Grande do Sul starting from a historical and present discussion and from references from the field of social studies of religion, thus seeking to situate the case of CPTERS within a larger framework of analysis involving themes such as ethnicity, racism and religious intolerance.…”
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Inclusion of Diverse Learners in the Educational System by Eric D. Rubenstein, Andrew C. Thoron

“…Forms of diversity such as socioeconomic status, ethnicity/race, learning style, cognitive ability, gender, and ability to process and store knowledge can cause an “achievement gap” between students. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…In contesting historical understandings, the ancestral Central Asian Turkic civilizations, the imperial history of the Ottoman Sultans, and the birth of the Turkish Republic are seen as a series of ruptures with complex definitions of authenticity and foreignness, especially in relation to religion and ethnicity. The aim of the study is to show how different historically constructed frameworks of appropriate practices and norms are associated with urban egalitarian spaces and traditional neighbourhoods and how Istanbulites cross boundaries between them. …”
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