Meta-analysis challenges the link between economic inequality and mental health

Does living in an unequal society make people unhappy? Not necessarily, reveals the largest study ever conducted on the ...

Illness is more than just biological – medical sociology shows how social factors get under the skin and cause disease

Medical sociology examines how social, cultural, political and economic factors shape health in ways that medicine alone ...
MedPage Today

Health Inequity Should Be Labeled as a 'Never Event'

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EHS Today

Getting a Handle on Health Inequity in the Workplace

Health inequity is not a concept that everyone is familiar with, but it is an issue that employers need to address. To understand the inequity part, let's first look at what health equity is. The CDC ...
Orange County Register

OC Supervisors: Racism and inequity are ‘public health crisis’

Orange County Supervisors have declared racism and societal inequity a public health crisis, citing a recent spike in race-based attacks and violence and studies that have tied racism to negative ...
phillyvoice.com

Addressing health inequities experienced by women

At Independence Blue Cross (IBX), we’ve made a powerful commitment to advancing health equity in the communities we serve. That starts with acknowledging health inequities wherever they exist. In our ...
Salon

Inequality is literally killing us: The most unequal societies suffer most in public health metrics

Adapted from "Inequality Kills Us All: Covid-19’s Health Lessons for the World," by Stephen Bezruchka, M.D., M.P.H. In 1992, a publication appeared in the British Medical Journal written by Richard ...