Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...

Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

Many social and economic factors have a significant impact on one's well-being. Food, water, shelter, education, decent employment, safe working conditions, and so on are all essential for good health ...

Health inequality is associated with measuring and comparing health outcomes of various groups. Some common parameters of measurement are life expectancy, rate of diseases, and disease-free life ...

Experts from Cancer Research UK share how through world-class research, we can better understand and tackle the impacts of ...

Editor’s Note (12/21/21): This article is being showcased in a special collection about equity in health care that was made possible by the support of Takeda Pharmaceuticals. The article was published ...

The link between poverty and ill-health is well documented but a new study shows a direct correlation between inequality and health – the more equally income is distributed, the healthier society.

Background While C-section (CS) deliveries exhibit significant socioeconomic inequalities in low- and middle-income countries ...