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Social Determinants of Health: State-of-the-Art and Future Directions

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The Struggle to Regulate Precarious Work Arrangements to Minimize Their Adverse Effects on Health and Safety in Australia

  • Elsa Underhill
  • Michael Quinlan

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As in other countries, the growth of precarious work arrangements in Australia from the late 1970s has had significant adverse effects on occupational health and safety (OHS). While there is now a large body of global research on this issue and its ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Feb 25, 2024
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Scoping Review to Identify Social Determinants of Maternal Health in Morocco

  • Chaimae Moujahid
  • Jack E. Turman, Jr.
  • Hiba Houradi
  • Loubna Amahdar

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To understand the mechanism of health inequities and their influence on maternal health, the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH) provides a framework to identify structural and intermediate causes of health inequity. This review maps and ...
Restricted accessReview articleFirst published Nov 30, 2023
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Informal Employment Under the Skin: Informality and Health Inequalities Among Chilean Workers

  • Marisol E. Ruiz
  • Mireia Bolibar
  • Núria Sánchez-Mira

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Informal employment has been identified as an important social determinant of health. This article addresses the processes through which informal employment affects workers’ health in Chile. The study's methodological approach was based on qualitative ...
Free accessResearch articleFirst published Oct 4, 2023
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Rethinking and Decolonizing Theories, Policies, and Practice of Health from the Global South

  • Oscar Feo Istúriz
  • Gonzalo Basile
  • Neil Maizlish

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This article states the need to decolonize the theories, policies, and practices that dominate health, and reflects on the necessity for a new epistemology built from the Global South. This allows rethinking health with a new categorical framework, which ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Sep 11, 2023
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An R Shiny Application (SDOH) for Predictive Modeling Using Regional Social Determinants of Health Survey Responses

  • Isuru Ratnayake
  • Sam Pepper
  • Aliyah Anderson
  • Alexander Alsup
  • Dinesh Pal Mudaranthakam

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Social determinants of health (SDoH) surveys are data sets that provide useful health-related information about individuals and communities. This study aims to develop a user-friendly web application that allows clinicians to get a predictive insight into ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Sep 11, 2023
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Downing the Master's Tools? New Research Strategies to Address Social Determinants of Health Inequalities

  • Ted Schrecker

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A dramatic increase in the volume of research literature referencing social determinants of health (SDH) since the report of the World Health Organization Commission on the topic in 2008 has not been matched by expansion of policies and interventions to ...
Open AccessResearch articleFirst published Apr 9, 2023
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Corporate Efforts to Adopt and Distort the Social Determinants of Health Framework

  • David U. Himmelstein
  • Steffie Woolhandler

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Over the past two centuries, progressive scholars have highlighted the health-harming effects of oppressive living and working conditions. Early studies delineated the roots of inequities in these social determinants of health in capitalist exploitation. ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Mar 8, 2023
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Why Social (Political, Economic, Cultural, Ecological) Determinants of Health? Part 1: Background of a Contested Construct

  • Carles Muntaner
  • Joan Benach

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This article is the first half of a 2-part essay on the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) as a field of scientific inquiry and theoretical framework, exploring its historical roots, current applications, and the controversies that surround it. Part 1 (...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jan 31, 2023
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Palestinians Under Israeli Settler Colonialism and “Anglo-Centric” Colonization of Knowledge Production

  • Rita Giacaman

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Calls for decolonizing knowledge production are increasing considerably. Yet the domination of knowledge production by English-speaking, neoliberal, Western countries continues, with understandings and assumptions often irrelevant and unimportant to ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Jan 24, 2023
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Minority Rule: A Lethal Threat to the People's Health, Democracy, and our Planet

  • Nancy Krieger

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When it comes to climate change, gun control, and abortion rights, the U.S. Supreme Court is on a minority rule roll, with grave consequences for the health of people and life on Earth. Its June 2022 decisions to limit the ability of the U.S. ...
Restricted accessResearch articleFirst published Nov 7, 2022
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