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It’s not the same as pain tolerance, which measures how much pain someone can endure before they require relief.
We can’t rely on rich countries to donate mpox vaccines. Here’s what we need to do instead.
One thing we can do to reduce this transport inequity is make it easier for First Nations people to get their driver’s licence. This also brings individuals and communities many other benefits.
The WHO’s International Health Regulations are the world’s only existing international legal agreement focused exclusively on preventing and addressing infectious disease outbreaks across borders.
De-centring medical expertise means fostering skillsets that reduce disparities in health outcomes. Medical expertise alone is great for those with social privilege, but not enough for the rest.
Influenza accounts for more than half of all potentially vaccine-preventable hospitalisations of children under 14. But those living in poverty are three times more likely to require hospital care.
New research highlights common threads in cancer survivors’ stories, including the effort it takes to navigate the health system, even for a diagnosis, and the struggle to fund unsubsidised treatments.
Many Black patients experience stark differences in how they’re treated during medical interactions compared to white patients.
Research partnerships with the people and communities affected help to challenge health inequities, and support person-centred care in health systems.
Anti-Black racism has health, social and economic consequences for Black populations in Canada. Partnering with Black communities is a crucial component in effective efforts to mitigate inequities.
While medical school may teach students about how the body works, it often neglects the social, political and cultural factors that determine health and disease. The humanities can help.
The work environment is a social determinant of health. However, work has been underused as a lever to address health inequalities.
Cancer screening and other routine primary care can help address inequities if we choose to leave the unfair status quo behind.
Many people with sickle cell disease don’t receive adequate treatment to ease their pain and are subjected to racial discrimination and stigmatization.
Children as young as ten don’t have access to Medicare if detained. And they’re dying of largely preventable diseases.
Native Americans sent to government-funded schools now experience significantly higher rates of mental and physical health problems than those who did not.
The argument that private healthcare relieves pressure on the public system is misleading. Private care profits from failures of the public system and patients’ desperation for timely treatment.
Biased algorithms in health care can lead to inaccurate diagnoses and delayed treatment. Deciding which variables to include to achieve fair health outcomes depends on how you approach fairness.
Though many Americans believe that parasitic infections exist in poorer countries, research shows that the problem exists in the US and has a higher impact in communities of color.
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Professor Emeritus of Health Policy and Management, York University, Canada
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Associate professor, Department of Health Sciences, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor of Law, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Associate Professor in Public Health, La Trobe University
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Visiting Assistant Professor of Community and Public Health; Executive Director, Southeast Idaho Area Health Education Center, Institute of Rural Health, Idaho State University, Idaho State University
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Professor of Epidemiology (Emeritis), University of Toronto
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Suicide Prevention Australia Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Health Sciences, Carleton University
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Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, Faculty of Health and Social Development, University of British Columbia
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Research Fellow of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Professor of Philosophy, Binghamton University, State University of New York
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Dean of the Sol Price School of Public Policy; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics, University of Southern California
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Research Fellow with Immunization Advisory Centre (IMAC), University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professorial Fellow, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, University of Edinburgh
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Adjunct Professor and Sessional Instructor, Department of Anthropology. PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Regina
