ReviewBMJ global health2024
The cost of inaction on health equity and its social determinants.
Review in BMJ global health, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Public health policies and interventions to address health inequities in high-income countries: an umbrella review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Inequalities in oral anticoagulant treatment patterns: a two-part model to estimate healthcare costs associated with atrial fibrillation.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular Health Equity: Time for a New Era of Science, Sociology, and Interventions.European heart journal · 2026Article
- It's Time to Define the Global Burden of Velopharyngeal Insufficiency.The Cleft palate-craniofacial journal : official publication of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association · 2026Article
- The politics of health: exploring the potential and the limits of health in all policies under multilevel governance.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- Cardiovascular Health Equity: Time for a New Era of Science, Sociology, and Interventions.Global heart · 2026Article
- Reclaiming the new era in global health: A proposal for an equity-centered paradigm.PLOS global public health · 2026Article
- Actionable partnerships for shaping healthcare's future by closing the equitable access gap and delivering meaningful change.Journal of public health policy · 2025Review
- A National Study Among Diverse US Populations of Exposure to Prescription Medications with Evidence-Based Pharmacogenomic Information.Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics · 2025Article
- Leveraging large language models for automated detection of velopharyngeal dysfunction in patients with cleft palate.Frontiers in digital health · 2025Article
- Achieving health equity in immune disease: leveraging big data and artificial intelligence in an evolving health system landscape.Frontiers in big data · 2025Review
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Abstract
Rising levels of inflation, debt and macrofiscal tightening are putting expenditures on the social sectors including health under immense scrutiny. Already, there are worrying signs of reductions in social sector investments. However, even before the pandemic, evidence showed the significant returns on investments in health equity and its social determinants. Emerging data and trends show that these potential returns have increased during the COVID-19 pandemic - investments in social determinants can mitigate widespread reductions in human capital and the increasing likelihood of costly syndemics, while promoting access to healthcare innovations that have thus far been inequitably distributed. Therefore, we argue that, despite immediate fiscal pressures, this is exactly the time to invest in health equity and its broader social determinants, as the returns on such investments have never been greater.
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