Addressing Health Disparities in Disadvantaged and Vulnerable Groups
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Care Sciences & Services".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 9826
Special Issue Editor
2. Centre for Regional Economies and Supply Chains, Appleton Institute, North Rockhampton, QLD 4702, Australia
Interests: Bangladesh; rural and remote healthcare provision; climate change and vector-borne disease; social epidemiology
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ongoing COVID-19 crisis has underlined how even a relatively novel health threat impacts unevenly on a population. Ethnic and cultural minorities have been heavily overrepresented in mortality in the general population and amongst health care workers. Understanding how economic, physical, social, psychological and cultural group members interact to produce such health disparities is an important step in ensuring health systems are able to support vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, as well as implementing public health interventions sensitively in the community to reduce vulnerability. Group ‘membership’ is at least partially a socially medicated notion with even ‘natural’ categories such as gender and race now understood as being an oversimplification. At the other end of the spectrum, groups where membership is seen as a ‘choice’, such as religious groups or subcultures, may also expose the individual to disadvantage in the health system. Intersectionality theory, which refers to ways in which an individual’s identity can expose them to overlapping forms of discrimination or marginalization as a result of ‘membership’ of multiple groups (e.g., ‘Hispanic’ and ‘female’), has led to greater appreciation of the potential compounding effects of group memberships. This Special Issue seeks submissions that go beyond merely demonstrating health disparities in disadvantaged and vulnerable groups, to begin to answer the questions “how does individual or multiple group membership lead to health decrements?” and “how can public health and primary health care systems be restructured to address the disadvantage suffered by vulnerable groups?”
Dr. Olav Muurlink
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- social epidemiology
- health inequalities
- health systems
- intersectionality
- group membership
- identity
