In this glossary, the authors address eight key questions pertinent to health inequalities:(1)
What is the distinction between health inequality and health inequity?;(2) Should we assess …

Many developed countries have experienced a sharp rise in income inequality during the
past three decades, and the United States is no exception (1). For example, the average …

Anaemia affects a quarter of the global population, including 293 million (47%) children
younger than 5 years and 468 million (30%) non-pregnant women. In addition to anaemia's …

Pick any current issue of a journal such as Social Science & Medicine or the Journal of
Epidemiology and Community Health and one is bound to see a featured article about social …

Despite growing attention to the problem of obesogenic environments, there has not been a
comprehensive review evaluating the food environment–diet relationship. This study aims to …

In India, despite improvements in access to health care, inequalities are related to
socioeconomic status, geography, and gender, and are compounded by high out-of-pocket …

This study assessed the contextual and individual effects of social trust on health. Methods
consisted of a multilevel regression analysis of self-rated poor health among 21,456 …

Despite the promise of geocoding and use of area-based socioeconomic measures to
overcome the paucity of socioeconomic data in US public health surveillance systems, no …

The rapidly growing and evolving literature on the social environment and its influence on
health outcomes currently lacks a clear taxonomy of dimensions of the social environment …

The authors examine the research evidence on the effect of residential segregation on
health, identify research gaps, and propose new research directions. Four recommendations …