Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Informal Caregiving and Diurnal Patterns of Salivary Cortisol: Results from the Whitehall II Cohort Study
(Elsevier, 2019)The objective was to investigate the relationship between various aspects of informal caregiving and diurnal patterns of salivary cortisol, with special attention to the moderating effect of sex and work status. The study ... -
The Transformative Potential of Strategic Partnerships to Form a Health Equity Network of the Americas
(Ethnicity & Disease, Inc., 2019)Health inequities across the Americas are avoidable and unjust yet continue to persist. Systemic social determinants of health, which could be addressed at the policy level, are root causes of many inequities and prevent ... -
Everything and the Kitchen Sink
(Elsevier, 2019)Addressing an American audience, I quoted childhood poverty figures from UNICEF that show 29% of children in the USA grow up in poverty, more like Mexico than the Nordic countries at 9–11%. Somewhat overwrought, I declared: ... -
Social Determinants, Capabilities and Health Inequalities: A Response to Bhugra, Greco, Fennell and Venkatapuram
(Taylor and Francis, 2018-10-14)Doctors know about health—it is what you lose when you have disease. And they know about disease—it is what happens when you have disordered pathology. People interested in prevention know about health—ill-health can be ... -
Health Inequalities and Mental Life
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)The evidence, which is summarised in this editorial, shows that the circumstances in which people are born, grow, live, work and age are powerful determinants of health and of the unfair distribution of health – health ... -
Dorothea Lange's Lens on Humanity
(Elsevier, 2018)Donald Trump has a loud voice, no shame, and precious little evidence of humanity. He has distorted language and lies endlessly. He appears to get away with it. The stately New York Times is disapproving and The Washington ... -
Justice for Children and Families - A Developmental Perspective
(Cambridge University Press, 2018)Children come into the world completely helpless, and require well-functioning families and schools to meet their needs, protect their interests and nurture their potential. This book argues that healthy child-development ... -
Social Causes of the Slowdown in Health Improvement
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018)The abiding view of the second half of the 20th century is that societies improve, health and social care improve and, as a result, health improves. We can argue, and do, as to who holds the pump handle. How much was it ... -
Sociodemographic Differences Between Alcohol Use and Sickness Absence: Pooled Analysis of Four Cohort Studies
(Oxford University Press, 2018)We examined differences in sickness absence in relation to at-risk drinking and abstinence, taking into account potential changes in consumption. -
The Sustainable Development Goals and Health Equity
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018)Invite the world to dream. That is what the United Nations (UN) did in 2012 through launching its unprecedented global consultation for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) under the banner “the world we want.”1 Three ... -
Just Societies, Health Equity, and Dignified Lives: the PAHO Equity Commission
(Elsevier, 2018)The USA is the richest country in the Americas and its residents enjoy good health: female life expectancy is 81 years and male is 76 years. Haiti is the poorest country in the Americas; its residents suffer poor health: ... -
An Inverse Care Law for our Time
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd, 2018)“We are still able to do the most civilized thing in the world—put the welfare of the sick in front of every other consideration.” Julian Tudor Hart begins his book on his credo as a general practitioner with this quote, ... -
Man-made Disaster
(Elsevier Ltd, 2018)In its last years, the Soviet Union was not meeting the needs of its citizens. One simple measure, life expectancy at age 15 years, showed the USSR to fall progressively further behind western Europe, all through the 1970s ... -
It's Getting Better all the Time
(Elsevier, 2018)I came to scoff and remain'd to pray. As Oliver Goldsmith reacted to church in 1770, so did I to Stephen Pinker's opus, Enlightenment Now: the Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress. The book had been trailed as ... -
Residential Agricultural Pesticide Exposures and Risks of Spontaneous Preterm Birth
(Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc., 2018)Pesticides exposures are aspects of the human exposome that have not been sufficiently studied for their contribution to risk for preterm birth. We investigated risks of spontaneous preterm birth from potential residential ... -
Diet, Cancer, and NCD Prevention
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)Food excites the passions—and recommendations about what constitutes healthy eating can cause passionate disagreement. Witness the outpouring of diet books or polemics declaring that conventional wisdom is quite wrong on ... -
Inclusion Health: Addressing the Causes of the Causes
(Elsevier Ltd., 2018)The social gradient in health describes a graded association between an individual's position on the social hierarchy and health: the lower the socioeconomic position of an individual, the worse their health. The fact ... -
Medical Care, Social Determinants of Health, and Health Equity
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018)Sir Michael Marmot writes on public health, social determinants of health, and health equity. -
Nordic Leadership and Global Activity on Health Equity Through Action on Social Determinants of Health
(SAGE, 2018)Always a good sleeper, I had many sleepless nights while chairing the Commission on Social Determinants of Health (CSDH). A principal cause of insomnia was worry over the question: why should ministers of education ... -
Inequalities in Asthma Mortality: a Specific Case of a General Issue of Health Inequalities
(BMJ Publishing Group Ltd & British Thoracic Society, 2018)Respiratory disease was always the ‘British’ disease. Not the most common cause of death in Britain, but the cause that most marked Britain as being different from other countries. In the same way, liver disease was the ...
