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Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Public Health, May 2011
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3 policy sources
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56 X users
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Title
Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice
Published in
American Journal of Public Health, May 2011
DOI 10.2105/ajph.2010.300062
Pubmed ID
Authors

Paula A. Braveman, Shiriki Kumanyika, Jonathan Fielding, Thomas LaVeist, Luisa N. Borrell, Ron Manderscheid, Adewale Troutman

Abstract

Eliminating health disparities is a Healthy People goal. Given the diverse and sometimes broad definitions of health disparities commonly used, a subcommittee convened by the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2020 proposed an operational definition for use in developing objectives and targets, determining resource allocation priorities, and assessing progress. Based on that subcommittee's work, we propose that health disparities are systematic, plausibly avoidable health differences adversely affecting socially disadvantaged groups; they may reflect social disadvantage, but causality need not be established. This definition, grounded in ethical and human rights principles, focuses on the subset of health differences reflecting social injustice, distinguishing health disparities from other health differences also warranting concerted attention, and from health differences in general. We explain the definition, its underlying concepts, the challenges it addresses, and the rationale for applying it to United States public health policy.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 10 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Unknown 1235 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 263 21%
Student > Ph. D. Student 165 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 128 10%
Researcher 108 9%
Student > Bachelor 94 8%
Other 233 19%
Unknown 257 21%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 279 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 220 18%
Nursing and Health Professions 183 15%
Psychology 51 4%
Environmental Science 24 2%
Other 163 13%
Unknown 328 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 70. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 30 January 2024.
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#613,738
of 25,582,611 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Public Health
#1,169
of 12,773 outputs
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#2,166
of 122,108 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Public Health
#18
of 89 outputs
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