Aggregable Health Inequality Indices

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sttphane Mussard ◽  
Marra Noel Pi Alperin ◽  
VVronique Thireau
Keyword(s):  
Health Inequality

Knowledge Translation for Health Inequality in South Korea

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Yeori Park ◽  
Myoung-Hee Kim ◽  
Saerom Kim
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Health Inequality

Neighborhoods, Spatial Stigma, and Health

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Danya E. Keene ◽  
Mark B. Padilla
Keyword(s):  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
Neighborhood Effects ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Disadvantaged Neighborhoods

An emerging literature on spatial stigma suggests that negative representations of place may adversely affect the health of individuals who reside in disadvantaged neighborhoods. This chapter reviews the literature on spatial stigma as it relates to neighborhood health inequality. The chapter draws on existing neighborhood research to describe the processes that may connect spatial stigma to health and the ways that spatial stigma is experienced and managed within neighborhoods. It also reviews existing empirical literature that connects measures of spatial stigma to health outcomes, including hypertension. Although the growing literature on spatial stigma represents a new concept for the study of neighborhood effects, it also represents a fundamental departure from this literature.

The Politics of Global Health Inequalities

2019 ◽  
pp. 58-84
Author(s):  
Yusra Ribhi Shawar ◽  
Jennifer Prah Ruger
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Global Health ◽  
Health Inequalities ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social

Careful investigations of the political determinants of health that include the role of power in health inequalities—systematic differences in health achievements among different population groups—are increasing but remain inadequate. Historically, much of the research examining health inequalities has been influenced by biomedical perspectives and focused, as such, on ‘downstream’ factors. More recently, there has been greater recognition of more ‘distal’ and ‘upstream’ drivers of health inequalities, including the impacts of power as expressed by actors, as well as embedded in societal structures, institutions, and processes. The goal of this chapter is to examine how power has been conceptualised and analysed to date in relation to health inequalities. After reviewing the state of health inequality scholarship and the emerging interest in studying power in global health, the chapter presents varied conceptualisations of power and how they are used in the literature to understand health inequalities. The chapter highlights the particular disciplinary influences in studying power across the social sciences, including anthropology, political science, and sociology, as well as cross-cutting perspectives such as critical theory and health capability. It concludes by highlighting strengths and limitations of the existing research in this area and discussing power conceptualisations and frameworks that so far have been underused in health inequalities research. This includes potential areas for future inquiry and approaches that may expand the study of as well as action on addressing health inequality.

Parameterizing standard measures of income and health inequality using choice experiments

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hjördis Hardardottir ◽  
Ulf‐G Gerdtham ◽  
Erik Wengström
Keyword(s):  
Health Inequality ◽  
Choice Experiments

scholarly journals Physical inactivity and health inequality during coronavirus: a novel opportunity or total lockdown?

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. e000903
Author(s):  
Natalie F Shur ◽  
David Johns ◽  
Stefan Kluzek ◽  
Nicholas Peirce
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Inequality ◽  
Physical Inactivity ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Restricted Movement ◽  
Socioeconomic Groups ◽  
Lower Socioeconomic ◽  
The World ◽  
Additional Burden ◽  
Public Health Promotion

Government-restricted movement during the coronavirus pandemic in various countries around the world has led to rapid and fundamental changes in our health behaviour. As well as being at a higher risk of contracting and being hospitalised with COVID-19, the elderly, those with chronic disease and lower socioeconomic groups are also disproportionately affected by restriction of movement, further widening the physical activity health inequality. In this viewpoint we discuss the physiological sequelae of physical inactivity, and the additional burden of ageing and inflammation. We provide recommendations for public health promotion and interventions to try to mitigate the detrimental effects of physical inactivity and rebalance the health inequality.

scholarly journals Lies, Damned Lies, and Health Inequality Measurements

Epidemiology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 673-680 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustav Kjellsson ◽  
Ulf-G Gerdtham ◽  
Dennis Petrie
Keyword(s):  
Health Inequality
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