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Understanding Health Equity

By focusing on reducing environmental and social risk factors, nearly a quarter of the global burden of disease can be prevented. —World Health Organization (WHO)

The burden of disease attributable to the environment and health inequity is consistently high and causing considerable burden. Since 2018, the WHO have placed renewed emphasis on health equity. In recognition of the relevant issues and the need for change, this collection of review articles focusing on the impacts of pollution, climate change, and socioeconomic risk factors has been curated.

Our Understanding Health Equity article collection includes review articles from 11 Annual Reviews journals, addressing:

  • Socioeconomic determinants of health
  • Stress, Childhood Trauma, and Incarceration: Impacts on individuals, populations, and generations
  • Climate change's environmental impacts on health and behavior

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Last updated 05/2023

Determinants of Health Equity

Promoting Health Equity Through Preventing or Mitigating the Effects of Gentrification: A Theoretical and Methodological Guide

Helen V.S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski, Margarita Triguero-Mas, Roshanak Mehdipanah, and Mariana Arcaya, Annual Review of Public Health

Advancing Health Equity Efforts to Reduce Obesity: Changing the Course

Shiriki K. Kumanyika, Annual Review of Nutrition

The Role of Citizen Science in Promoting Health Equity

Lisa G. Rosas, Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, Felipe Montes Jimenez, and Abby C. King, Annual Review of Public Health

Framework and Strategies to Eliminate Disparities in Colorectal Cancer Screening Outcomes

Chyke A. Doubeni, Kevin Selby, and Samir Gupta, Annual Review of Medicine

Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States

R.A. Afifi, E.A. Parker, G. Dino, D.M. Hall, and B. Ulin, Annual Review of Public Health

The Social Determinants of Health: Coming of Age

Paula Braveman, Susan Egerter, and David R. Williams, Annual Review of Public Health

Addressing Health Equity in Public Health Practice: Frameworks, Promising Strategies, and Measurement Considerations

Leandris C. Liburd, Jeffrey E. Hall, Jonetta J. Mpofu, Sheree Marshall Williams, Karen Bouye, and Ana Penman-Aguilar, Annual Review of Public Health

Race, Law, and Health Disparities: Toward a Critical Race Intervention

Osagie K. Obasogie, Irene Headen, and Mahasin S. Mujahid, Annual Review of Law and Social Science

Effects of the Great Recession: Health and Well-Being

Sarah A. Burgard and Lucie Kalousova, Annual Review of Sociology

Socioeconomic Status and Health: Mediating and Moderating Factors

Edith Chen and Gregory E. Miller, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology

Action on the Social Determinants of Health and Health Inequities Goes Global

Sharon Friel and Michael G. Marmot, Annual Review of Public Health

The Growing Impact of Globalization for Health and Public Health Practice

Ronald Labonté, Katia Mohindra, and Ted Schrecker, Annual Review of Public Health

The New Homelessness Revisited

Barrett A. Lee, Kimberly A. Tyler, and James D. Wright, Annual Review of Sociology

Racism and Health: Evidence and Needed Research

David R. Williams, Jourdyn A. Lawrence, and Brigette A. Davis, Annual Review of Public Health

Stress, Childhood Trauma, and Incarceration: Impacts on Individuals, Populations, and Generations

Early Childhood Education: Health, Equity, and Economics

Robert A. Hahn and W. Steven Barnett, Annual Review of Public Health

Understanding Health Inequalities Through the Lens of Social Epigenetics

Chantel L. Martin, Lea Ghastine, Evans K. Lodge, Radhika Dhingra, and Cavin K. Ward-Caviness, Annual Review of Public Health

Developmental Effects of Parent-Child Separation

Anne Bentley Waddoups, Hirokazu Yoshikawa, and Kendra Strouf, Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

Early Environments, Stress, and the Epigenetics of Human Health

Connie J. Mulligan, Annual Review of Anthropology

What Do We Know About Short- and Long-Term Effects of Early-Life Exposure to Pollution?

Janet Currie, Joshua Graff Zivin, Jamie Mullins, and Matthew Neidell, Annual Review of Resource Economics

A Review of Opportunities to Improve the Health of People Involved in the Criminal Justice System in the United States

Nicholas Freudenberg and Daliah Heller, Annual Review of Public Health

Incarceration and Health

Michael Massoglia and William Alex Pridemore, Annual Review of Sociology

Public Health and the Epidemic of Incarceration

Dora M. Dumont, Brad Brockmann, Samuel Dickman, Nicole Alexander, and Josiah D. Rich, Annual Review of Public Health

Climate Change's Environmental Impacts on Health and Behavior

Green Infrastructure and Health

Mark J. Nieuwenhuijsen, Annual Review of Public Health

Projected Behavioral Impacts of Global Climate Change

Gary W. Evans, Annual Review of Psychology

Environmental Role in Influenza Virus Outbreaks

Harini Sooryanarain and Subbiah Elankumaran, Annual Review of Animal Biosciences

The Economics of Household Air Pollution

Marc Jeuland, Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, and Randall Bluffstone, Annual Review of Resource Economics

Links Among Human Health, Animal Health, and Ecosystem Health

Peter Rabinowitz and Lisa Conti, Annual Review of Public Health

Energy and Human Health

Kirk R. Smith, Howard Frumkin, Kalpana Balakrishnan, Colin D. Butler, Zoë A. Chafe, Ian Fairlie, Patrick Kinney, Tord Kjellstrom, Denise L. Mauzerall, Thomas E. McKone, Anthony J. McMichael, and Mycle Schneider, Annual Review of Public Health

Emerging Threats to Human Health from Global Environmental Change

Samuel S. Myers and Jonathan A. Patz, Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Symposium from the Annual Review of Public Health (2008): Climate Change and Health

Ancillary Benefits for Climate Change Mitigation and Air Pollution Control in the World's Motor Vehicle Fleets

Michael P. Walsh

Health Impact Assessment of Global Climate Change: Expanding on Comparative Risk Assessment Approaches for Policy Making

Jonathan Patz, Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum, Holly Gibbs, and Rosalie Woodruff

Heat Stress and Public Health

R. Sari Kovats and Shakoor Hajat

Co-Benefits of Climate Mitigation and Health Protection in Energy Systems: Scoping Methods

Kirk R. Smith and Evan Haigler

Preparing the U.S. Health Community for Climate Change

Richard Jackson and Kyra Naumoff Shields

Mitigating, Adapting, and Suffering: How Much of Each?

Kirk R. Smith


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