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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2014

Difference in health inequity between two population groups due to a social determinant of health.

Ramal Moonesinghe, Karen Bouye, Ana Penman-Aguilar

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Article in International journal of environmental research and public health, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Equity reporting: a framework for putting knowledge mobilization and health equity at the core of population health status reporting.Health promotion and chronic disease prevention in Canada : research, policy and practice · 2018
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3 authors.

Ramal MoonesingheOffice of Minority Health and Health Equity, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop K77, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. rmoonesinghe@cdc.gov.
Karen BouyeOffice of Minority Health and Health Equity, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop K77, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. keh2@cdc.gov.
Ana Penman-AguilarOffice of Minority Health and Health Equity, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway, Mailstop K77, Atlanta, GA 30341, USA. bpv4@cdc.gov.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as "complex, integrated, and overlapping social structures and economic systems" that are responsible for most health inequities. Similar to the individual-level risk factors such as behavioral and biological risk factors that influence disease, we consider social determinants of health such as the distribution of income, wealth, influence and power as risk factors for risk of disease. We operationally define health inequity in a disease within a population due to a risk factor that is unfair and avoidable as the difference between the disease outcome with and without the risk factor in the population. We derive expressions for difference in health inequity between two populations due to a risk factor that is unfair and avoidable for a given disease. The difference in heath inequity between two population groups due to a risk factor increases with increasing difference in relative risks and the difference in prevalence of the risk factor in the two populations. The difference in health inequity could be larger than the difference in health outcomes between the two populations in some situations. Compared to health disparities which are typically measured and monitored using absolute or relative disparities of health outcomes, the methods presented in this manuscript provide a different, yet complementary, picture because they parse out the contributions of unfair and avoidable risk factors.

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Health Status DisparitiesPopulation GroupsAdolescentAdultAgedDiabetes MellitusHealth SurveysHumansMiddle AgedModels, TheoreticalPrevalenceRiskRisk FactorsSocioeconomic FactorsUnited StatesYoung Adult

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PMID25522048
PMCPMC4276663

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