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ArticleInternational journal of social determinants of health and health services2025

The Global Polycrisis and Health Inequalities.

Courtney McNamara, Clare Bambra

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Article in International journal of social determinants of health and health services, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Psychosocial trajectories in Germany across a decade of societal crises.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Courtney McNamaraPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8754-0509
Clare BambraPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-1294-6851

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 221266/Z/20/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the current era of multiple, overlapping global crises, it is essential to consider the political economy of health within the broader framework of global interconnectedness. In this article, we employ the polycrisis concept to understand the impacts of the multifaceted, concurrent, and synergistic contemporary global crises on global health and health inequalities. A polycrisis occurs when crises in multiple diverse global systems become causally entangled, compounding their effects. Despite its potential relevance and analytical insights, the polycrisis concept has rarely been applied in public health research. This article fills that gap, and through reviewing the impacts of past economic, environmental, health, and political crises, we argue that the polycrisis is creating a complex web of challenges that are likely to amplify existing and future health inequalities. We conclude by discussing strategies to mitigate these impacts and suggest pathways for research to ensure that the future is not inevitably unequal.

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Global HealthHealth Status DisparitiesHumansPoliticsSocioeconomic Factorscrisiseconomicenvironmentglobal healthhealth disparitiespandemicspoliticssocial inequalitysocio-economicsyndemic

Identifiers

PMID39957184
PMCPMC12171050

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