Advancing Health Equity Through the Political Determinants of Health and the Health Equity Tracker

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 17-22
Author(s):  
Jenné Johns
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Determinants

scholarly journals Digital Technology and the Political Determinants of Health Inequities: Special Issue Introduction

Global Policy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (S6) ◽  
pp. 5-11
Author(s):  
Katerini Tagmatarchi Storeng ◽  
Sakiko Fukuda‐Parr ◽  
Manjari Mahajan ◽  
Sridhar Venkatapuram
Keyword(s):  
Digital Technology ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Determinants

scholarly journals Health Inequities: A Look at the Political Determinants of Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Dawes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Health Inequities ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
New Model ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The U.S

Since January 2020, the U.S. has had over 150,000 deaths attributed to the Coronavirus, and morbidity and mortality rates continue to rise. In the United States, minorities are more likely to die from COVID-19 than other populations - a fact that further solidifies the disparate nature of race and ethnicity relative to one’s health and the inequities in care. COVID-19 has not struck all equally because our economic and social policies have not benefited all equally. This paper introduces a new model, the political determinants of health, which focuses on their role in creating, perpetuating, and exacerbating health inequities.

scholarly journals Towards Critical Analysis of the Political Determinants of Health Comment on "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention"

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 121-123
Author(s):  
Julia Smith
Keyword(s):  
Structural Analysis ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Trade Agreements ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Corporate Influence ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
Political Analysis

The recent perspective article "How Neoliberalism Is Shaping the Supply of Unhealthy Commodities and What This Means for NCD Prevention," by Lencucha and Throw, interrogates how the dominant neoliberal paradigm restricts meaningful policy action to prevent non-communicable diseases (NCDs). It contributes an NCD perspective to the existing literature on neoliberalism and health, which to date has been dominated by a focus on HIV, gender and trade agreements. It further advances the emerging commercial determinants of health (CDoH) scholarship by calling for more nuanced analysis of how the governance of both health and the economy facilitates corporate influence in policy-making. In political science terms, Lencucha and Throw are calling for greater structural analysis. However, their focus on the pragmatic, as opposed to political, aspects of neoliberalism reflects a hesitancy within health scholarship to engage in political analysis. This depoliticization of health serves neoliberal interests by delegitimizing critical questions about who sustains and benefits from current institutional norms. Lencucha and Throw’s call for greater interrogation of the structures of neoliberalism forms a basis from which to advance analysis of the political determinants of health.

The Future of Health Equity in America: Addressing the Legal and Political Determinants of Health

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 838-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel E. Dawes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Determinants Of Health ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Social Determinants ◽  
The United States ◽  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
Political Determinants ◽  
The Social ◽  
Laws And Policies ◽  
Moral Economic

There is much discourse and focus on the social determinants of health, but undergirding these multiple intersecting and interacting determinants are legal and political determinants that have operated at every level and impact the entire life continuum. The United States has long grappled with advancing health equity via public law and policy. Seventy years after the country was founded, lawmakers finally succeeded in passing the first comprehensive and inclusive law aimed at tackling the social determinants of health, but that effort was short-lived. Today the United States is faced with another fork in the road relative to the advancement of health equity. This article draws on lessons from history and law to argue that researchers, providers, payers, lawmakers and the legal community have a moral, economic and national security imperative to address not only the negative outcomes of health disparities, but also the imbalance of inputs resulting from laws and policies which fail to employ an equity lens.

The political determinants of health--10 years on

BMJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 350 (jan08 2) ◽  
pp. h81-h81 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Kickbusch
Keyword(s):  
Determinants Of Health ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Determinants
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