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Structural Inequality and COVID-19 Mortality in Chicago: An Ecological Analysis
BackgroundPrior studies establish that Black neighborhoods and older persons experience higher rates of COVID-19 death than white neighborhoods and...
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Systemic structural gender discrimination and inequality in the health workforce: theoretical lenses for gender analysis, multi-country evidence and implications for implementation and HRH policy
This commentary brings together theory, evidence and lessons from 15 years of gender and HRH analyses conducted in health systems in six WHO regions...
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Climate change and inequality
AbstractThis review explores how climate change is manifesting along existing lines of inequality and thus further exacerbating current health...
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Addressing Structural Inequalities, Structural Racism, and Social Determinants of Health: a Vision for the Future
Significant national discourse has focused on the idea of structural inequalities and structural racism within a variety of societal sectors,...
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Income Inequality, Gender Disparities, and Ethnic Differences: Investigating Allostatic Load in American Adults
AimTo estimate the association between income inequality and allostatic load score (AL) in adults ages 20 years and older, with a particular focus on...
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Inequality by Skin Color in Breast Cancer Screening in Brazil: a Differences-in-Differences Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Breast cancer is the second most common cancer type and the first in mortality among Brazilian women. Mammograms are one of the main early diagnosis...
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Ethnic inequality, multimorbidity and psychosis: can a syndemic framework resolve disputed evidence?
Syndemic theory is described as population-level clustering or co-occurrence of health conditions in the context of shared aetiologies that interact...
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Socioeconomic inequality, health inequity and well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 pandemic in Nigeria
BackgroundWe aimed to explore socioeconomic inequality, health inequity, and the well-being of transgender people during the COVID-19 crisis in...
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Socioeconomic inequality of health-related quality of life in cancer survivors in South Korea
BackgroundWe investigated the inequalities in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among cancer survivors in Korea, focusing on income and...
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Healthy lifespan inequality: morbidity compression from a global perspective
Current measures of population health lack indicators capturing the variability in age-at-morbidity onset, an important marker to assess the timing...
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The association between income inequality and adolescent body mass index: findings from the COMPASS study (2016–2019)
ObjectivesIncome inequality has been linked to high and unhealthy body mass index (BMI), though there is a dearth of evidence in adolescents....
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Perceived inequality in society may not motivate increased food intake in the absence of personal socioeconomic disadvantage
BackgroundGreater levels of socioeconomic inequality across societies have been associated with higher rates of obesity and cardiometabolic disease....
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To what extent has the Iranian Health Transformation Plan addressed inequality in healthcare financing in Iran?
BackgroundOne of the major goals of health systems is providing a financing strategy without inequality; this has a significant impact on people’s...
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Making un/equal: reassessing inequality and mental health through a praxeographic approach on welfare categorization processes
PurposeIn recent decades, Europe has seen a steady increase in psychiatric diagnoses, which, besides affecting the population in many ways, also...
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A qualitative study on gender inequality and gender-based violence in Nepal
BackgroundGender inequality and violence are not mutually exclusive phenomena but complex loops affecting each other. Women in Nepal face several...
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An analysis of predictors and wealth-based inequality in internet use among women in India: aiming for better digital health outcomes
BackgroundDigital health, aiming to boost healthcare accessibility, is an emerging concept in the domain of healthcare administration and delivery in...
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Amplified effect of social vulnerability on health inequality regarding COVID-19 mortality in the USA: the mediating role of vaccination allocation
BackgroundVaccination reduces the overall burden of COVID-19, while its allocation procedure may introduce additional health inequality, since...
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Perceived health inequalities: are the UK and US public aware of occupation-related health inequality, and do they wish to see it reduced?
BackgroundOne underexamined factor in the study of lay views of socioeconomic health inequalities is occupation-related health. Examining health by...
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Neighbourhood effect and inequality in access to essential health services among mother–child paired samples: a decomposition analysis of data from 58 low- and middle-income countries
IntroductionNeighbourhood effect on health outcomes is well established, but little is known about its effect on access to essential health services...
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Social inequality, social networks, and health: a sco** review of research on health inequalities from a social network perspective
BackgroundThis review summarises the present state of research on health inequalities using a social network perspective, and it explores the...
