While policy organizations publicly claim that they want input from racialized and other marginalized communities, many fail to listen to, accept or integrate what those communities have to say.
Academic rigor, journalistic flair
Articles on Health equity
Displaying 21 - 40 of 55 articles
The mental health impact of the pandemic has not affected everyone equally. An equitable approach to mental health promotion, prevention and treatment can help ensure equitable access to services.
Record-breaking technology can sequence an entire human genome in a matter of hours. The work could be a lifeline for people suffering from the more than 5,000 known rare genetic diseases.
Vaccines and medical treatments can only go so far in an unequal society. Facing the ongoing history of racial discrimination and bias in the US would help end the pandemic.
Listen to experts discuss the business practices of pharmaceutical companies in The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Rapid antigen testing might be convenient. But high prices for home kits will put people off, compounding disadvantage.
When the UK’s red list is considered at a more granular level, the difficulties become immediately apparent.
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
Green spaces can be part of the plan to ‘build back better’ after COVID-19. But city officials and policy-makers must address systemic racism for urban green spaces to benefit public health.
The mental health crisis occurring in tandem with COVID-19 has stressed resources and stretched service waitlists into years. There is an urgent need for prevention strategies, not just treatment.
Many researchers may lack resources to guide them in conducting research that is equitable, inclusive and respectful of diverse Indigenous knowledge, ethics, practice and research sovereignty.
One important metric by which we can measure the success of our public health system: Ensuring everyone has access to immunization in their community.
Fair global agreements, home-grown vaccines and sharing extra doses with poorer nations are all needed if we’re to ever emerge from this pandemic.
Expanding access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) to those not terminally ill puts vulnerable people at risk of feeling pressured into MAID, and doctors at risk of being forced to facilitate it.
One of the factors that has made COVID-19 so catastrophic in long-term care homes was lack of paid sick leave for low-wage workers.
So far, the only COVID-19 vaccines authorized for use need to be kept frozen. But there are many places in the world that can’t support a cold supply chain.
A private market should have no place in the rollout of a COVID vaccine.
In Brazil, black COVID-19 patients are dying at higher rates than white patients. Worse housing quality, working conditions and health care help to explain the pandemic’s racially disparate toll.
While African Americans account for about 14% of the US population, they have accounted for about 60% of deaths from the virus. Several physicians offer an idea they think could help.
When care is equity-oriented, patients report fewer depression and trauma symptoms, less chronic pain and improved quality of life.
Top contributors
-
Assistant Professor in Health Sciences, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University
-
Associate Vice-President Global Health, McMaster University
-
Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
-
Professor & Distinguished University Scholar, University of British Columbia
-
Professor of Surgery and Director of the Virtual Health Hub and the Remote Presence Robotic Program at the University of Saskatchewan, University of Saskatchewan
-
Honorary Fellow, Early Childhood Education., Charles Darwin University
-
Post-doctoral research fellow, Department of Medicine, University of British Columbia
-
Professor of General Practice and Head of Undergraduate Education, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto
-
Director of the Australian Research Centre for Population Oral Health, University of Adelaide
-
Adjunct Associate Professor, Menzies Centre for Health Policy and Economics, University of Sydney
-
Scientist-in-Residence and Adjunct Professor, Middlebury
-
Professor of Health Policy, Columbia University
-
Director, Centre for Primary Health Care and Equity and Centre of Research Excellence in Obesity Management and Prevention in Primary Health Care, UNSW Sydney
-
Professor of Health Economics, Duke-NUS Medical School
