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    Big Data and the Study of Social Inequalities in Health: Expectations and Issues 

    Cyrille Delpierre; Michelle Kelly -Irving (Frontiers in Public Health, 2018-10-26)

    Understanding the construction of the social gradient in health is a major challenge in the field of social epidemiology, a branch of epidemiology that seeks to understand how society and its different forms of organization influence health at a population level. Attempting to answer these questions involves large datasets of varied heterogeneous data suggesting that Big Data approaches could be then particularly relevant to the study of social inequalities in health. Nevertheless, real challenges have to be addressed in order to make the...
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    Digital communication between clinician and patient and the impact on marginalised groups: a realist review in general practice 

    Huxley, Caroline J; Atherton, Helen; Watkins, Jocelyn Anstey; Griffiths, Frances (British Journal of General Practice, 2015-12)

    Background Increasingly, the NHS is embracing the use of digital communication technology for communication between clinicians and patients. Policymakers deem digital clinical communication as presenting a solution to the capacity issues currently faced by general practice. There is some concern that these technologies may exacerbate existing inequalities in accessing health care. It is not known what impact they may have on groups who are already marginalised in their ability to access general practice. Aim To assess the potential impact of th...
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    Digital health, gender and health equity: invisible imperatives 

    Sinha, Chaitali; Schryer-Roy, Anne-Marie (Journal of Public Health, 2018-12-01)

    A growing body of evidence shows the use of digital technologies in health—referred to as eHealth, mHealth or ‘digital health’—is improving and saving lives in low- and middle-income countries. Despite this prevalent and persistent narrative, very few studies examine its effects on health equity, gender and power dynamics. This journal supplement addresses these invisible imperatives by going beyond traditional measures of coverage, efficacy and cost-effectiveness associated with digital health interventions, to unpack different experiences of h...
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    Perspectives on health equity and social determinants of health 

    Bogard, Kimber; Murry, Velma McBride; Alexander, Charlee M.; National Academy of Medicine (U.S.) (National Academy Of Medicine, 2017)

    Social factors, signals, and biases shape the health of our nation. Racism and poverty manifest in unequal social, environmental, and economic conditions, resulting in deep-rooted health disparities that carry over from generation to generation. In Perspectives on Health Equity and Social Determinants of Health, authors call for collective action across sectors to reverse the debilitating and often lethal consequences of health inequity. This edited volume of discussion papers provides recommendations to advance the agenda to promote health eq...
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    Income Inequality and Outcomes in Heart Failure 

    Dewan, Pooja (2019)

    OBJECTIVES This study examined the relationship between income inequality and heart failure outcomes. BACKGROUND The income inequality hypothesis postulates that population health is influenced by income distribution within a society, with greater inequality associated with worse outcomes. METHODS This study analyzed heart failure outcomes in 2 large trials conducted in 54 countries. Countries were divided by tertiles of Gini coefficients (where 0% represented absolute income equality and 100% represented absolute income inequality), and heart fa...
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    Income inequality and schizophrenia: Increased schizophrenia incidence in countries with high levels of income inequality 

    Burns, Jonathan K; Tomita, Andrew; Kapadia, Amy S (2014-03)

    Background—Income inequality is associated with numerous negative health outcomes. There is evidence that ecological level socio-environmental factors may increase risk for schizophrenia. Aims—The aim was to investigate whether measures of income inequality are associated with incidence of schizophrenia at the country level. Method—We conducted a systematic review of incidence rates for schizophrenia, reported between 1975 and 2011. For each country, national measures of income inequality (Gini coefficient) along with covariate risk factors for...
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    Global warming has increased global economic inequality 

    Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Burke, Marshall (2019-05-14)

    Significance We find that global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This increase results from the impact of warming on annual economic growth, which over the course of decades has accumulated robust and substantial declines in economic output in hotter, poorer countries—and increases in many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, the global warming caused by...
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    Economists: Your Parents Are More Important Than Ever 

    Thompson, Derek (the Atlantic)
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    Global warming has increased global economic inequality 

    Diffenbaugh, Noah S.; Burke, Marshall (The Journalist's Resource, Shorenstein center on media, politics and public policy, Harvard Kennedy School, 2019-05-14)

    Significance We find that global warming has very likely exacerbated global economic inequality, including ∼25% increase in population-weighted between-country inequality over the past half century. This increase results from the impact of warming on annual economic growth, which over the course of decades has accumulated robust and substantial declines in economic output in hotter, poorer countries—and increases in many cooler, wealthier countries—relative to a world without anthropogenic warming. Thus, the global warming caused by...
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    Regional strategy on health system strengthening and primary health care 

    Unknown author (WHO Regional Office for the Western Pacific, 2010)
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    Social determinants of health inequalities: towards a theoretical perspective using systems science 

    Jayasinghe, Saroj (2015)

    A systems approach offers a novel conceptualization to natural and social systems. In recent years, this has led to perceiving population health outcomes as an emergent property of a dynamic and open, complex adaptive system. The current paper explores these themes further and applies the principles of systems approach and complexity science (i.e. systems science) to conceptualize social determinants of health inequalities. The conceptualization can be done in two steps: viewing health inequalities from a systems approach and extending it to in...
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    Teaching the Social Determinants of Health: A Path to Equity or a Road to Nowhere? 

    Sharma, Malika; Pinto, Andrew D; Kumagai, Arno K

    Medical schools are increasingly called to include social responsibility in their mandates. As such, they are focusing their attention on the social determinants of health (SDOH) as key drivers in the health of the patients and communities they serve. However, underlying this emphasis on SDOH is the assumption that teaching medical students about SDOH will lead future physicians to take action to help achieve health equity. There is little evidence to support this belief. In many ways, the current approach to SDOH within medical...
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    Intersectionality and health-related stigma: insights from experiences of people living with stigmatized health conditions in Indonesia 

    Rai, Sarju Sing; Peters, Ruth M. H.; Syurina, Elena V.; Irwanto, Irwanto; Naniche, Denise; Zweekhorst, Marjolein B. M. (International Journal for Equity in Health, 2020-12)

    Abstract Background Health-related stigma is a complex phenomenon, the experience of which intersects with those of other adversities arising from a diversity of social inequalities and oppressive identities like gender, sexuality, and poverty – a concept called “intersectionality”. Understanding this intersectionality between health-related stigma and other forms of social marginalization can provide a fuller and more comprehensive picture of stigma associated with health conditions. The main objective ...
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    Group inequality and intersectionality 

    Emma Samman; Jose Manuel Roche (E-Bulletin of the Human Development & Capability Association, 2014-07)
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    Intersectionality: Multiple Inequalities in Social Theory 

    Walby, Sylvia; Armstrong, Jo; Strid, Sofia (SAGE Journal, 2012-04)

    The concept of intersectionality is reviewed and further developed for more effective use. Six dilemmas in the debates on the concept are disentangled, addressed and resolved: the distinction between structural and political intersectionality; the tension between ‘categories’ and ‘inequalities’; the significance of class; the balance between a fluidity and stability; the varyingly competitive, cooperative, hierarchical and hegemonic relations between inequalities and between projects; and the conundrum of ‘visibility’ in the tension between the...
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    10 Best resources on… intersectionality with an emphasis on low- and middle-income countries 

    Larson, Elizabeth; George, Asha; Morgan, Rosemary; Poteat, Tonia (Health Policy and Planning, 2016-10-01)

    Intersectionality has emerged as an important framework for understanding and responding to health inequities by making visible the fluid and interconnected structures of power that create them. It promotes an understanding of the dynamic nature of the privileges and disadvantages that permeate health systems and affect health. It considers the interaction of different social stratifiers (e.g. ‘race’/ ethnicity, indigeneity, gender, class, sexuality, geography, age, disability/ability, migration status, religion) and the power structures that und...
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    Intersectionality 

    Phoenix, Ann; Pattynama, Pamela (European Journal of Women's Studies, 2006-08)
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    Understanding each one makes diversity work, lecturer says 

    Mitchell, Robert P (the Harvard Gazette, 2022-10)
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    INTERSECTIONALITY 101 

    Hankivsky, Olena (Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy)

    Interest in and applications of intersectionality have grown exponentially in popularity over the last 15 years. Scholars across the globe from a variety of disciplines, including sociology, political science, health sciences, geography, philosophy and anthropology, as well as in feminist studies, ethnic studies, queer studies and legal studies, have drawn on intersectionality to challenge inequities and promote social justice. This practice has also extended to policy makers, human rights activists and community organizers search - ing ...
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    Chapter 11: Ethics and Health 

    Pat Kurtz; Ronald L.Burr (Community -focused nursing)