Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Lara I. Brewer, Mark J. Ommerborn, Augustina Le Nguyen, Cheryl R. Clark
Summary: Structural inequities contribute to low influenza vaccination rates in the United States, with non-Hispanic White and Asian individuals having higher vaccination rates. Lack of health insurance, regular access to primary care, and delaying medical care due to cost were predictive factors for lower vaccination rates.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Joia Crear-Perry, Rosaly Correa-de-Araujo, Tamara Lewis Johnson, Monica R. McLemore, Elizabeth Neilson, Maeve Wallace
Summary: Social determinants play a crucial role in clinical care and public health, but misuse and lack of context have led to the term losing its meaning. A deeper understanding of social determinants and identifying the forces underlying their distribution is necessary.
JOURNAL OF WOMENS HEALTH
(2021)
Editorial Material
Medicine, General & Internal
Debra Malina
Summary: Deconstructing inequities is a crucial step in addressing racism as a public health crisis in the U.S., requiring accurate measurement of progress to ensure collective accountability. Public Health Critical Race Praxis offers guiding principles for analyzing various health equity challenges.
NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Nancy Krieger
Summary: This essay highlights the dual nature of data in documenting racialized health inequities and proposes two institutional mandates to address structural racism issues. Proposal/part 1 calls for explicit explanation of conceptualization and categorization methods of racialized groups in all government-funded research projects, while proposal/part 2 requires analysis of individual health data in relation to data on racialized societal inequities.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Health Care Sciences & Services
Manasa S. Ayyala, James Hill, Christin Traba, Maria Soto-Greene, Stephanie Shiau, Michelle DallaPiazza
Summary: This study aims to rapidly scale up COVID-19 education for medical students through the lens of structural racism, by developing and implementing a virtual curriculum using just-in-time training. The program was evaluated and showed significant changes in participants' confidence in achieving learning objectives. The use of just-in-time training provided time-relevant and immediately clinically applicable content for students preparing to re-enter clinical care.
JOURNAL OF GENERAL INTERNAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Megan Kirby-McGregor, Chen Chen, Hong Chen, Tarik Benmarhnia, Jay S. Kaufman
Summary: This study found that ambient PM2.5 concentrations in Canada decreased from 2001 to 2016, but disadvantaged communities with lower income, education, and higher proportions of aboriginal population did not benefit equally. This highlights the need to address environmental injustice in air pollution policies.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2023)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Christopher T. Emrich, Sanam K. Aksha, Yao Zhou
Summary: Social vulnerability plays a significant role in the impact and recovery processes of disasters. However, current disaster assistance programs do not take social vulnerabilities into account, leading to inequitable distribution of funds. This study analyzed the distribution of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's Individuals and Households Program (IHP) assistance to homeowners between 2010 and 2018, and found a connection between social vulnerability and fund distribution.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Helen V. S. Cole, Isabelle Anguelovski, James J. T. Connolly, Melissa Garcia-Lamarca, Carmen Perez-del-Pulgar, Galia Shokry, Margarita Triguero-Mas
Summary: Theories of epidemiologic transition analyze changes in mortality causes due to shifts in risk factors over time. However, they do not consider health inequities resulting from environmental injustice. A study on seven case neighborhoods in the United States and Western Europe found that a history of environmental injustice, urban renewal, and green gentrification have complex impacts on health inequity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Julia H. Twichell, Kate K. Mulvaney, Nathaniel H. Merrill, Justin J. Bousquin
Summary: This study examines access to public coastal amenities in Rhode Island and finds strong correlations between race, ethnicity, socioeconomic factors, and travel distance. Black and Latinx populations have greater difficulty accessing public coastal sites with better water quality and public swimming beaches, resulting in increased costs for their trips.
FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Thiago Junqueira Avelino-Silva, Natalia Trujillo, Chinedu Udeh-Momoh
Summary: This article discusses the relationship between fairness and brain health equity, highlighting the multidimensional aspects of fairness such as equity, justice, empathy, opportunity, non-discrimination, and the Golden Rule. By exploring the evolutionary origins and neurobiological foundations of fairness, its deep-rooted presence in both human and animal behaviors is verified. The article also emphasizes the interconnection between fairness and healthcare equity and its impact on brain health outcomes. In the current social landscape, interventions that enhance perspective-taking, reasoning, and empathy are urgently needed to maintain fairness and prosocial behaviors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Haley Selsor, Brian P. Bledsoe, Roderick Lammers
Summary: Urban flooding is becoming more threatening due to land use and climate change, and vulnerable populations are disproportionately exposed to flooding. Most studies on flood vulnerability focus on large floods and neglect the impact of small, frequent floods. This study aims to investigate inequitable flood exposure across different event magnitudes and frequencies by developing a novel score of risk that combines frequency, exposure, and vulnerability factors.
Article
Urban Studies
Gajanand Sharma, Gopal R. Patil
Summary: Education is a crucial aspect of an individual's life, and lack of access to educational services can have negative impacts on children's well-being and reinforce social inequalities. This study develops a conceptual framework to measure accessibility for educational services and evaluates spatial and social equity from urban and transportation planning perspectives. The findings suggest that policy measures can be taken to address existing inequities and maximize the benefits of education services. This research is important for planners and policymakers to prioritize measures for improving access to educational services and addressing spatial and social inequities.
Article
Education & Educational Research
Peter S. Cahn
Summary: Structural competency is a concept that focuses on developing analytical skills to understand the societal context beyond patient-clinician interactions. This paper argues for the restoration of individual agency in promoting health, highlighting the mutually constituting relationship between structure and agency. It suggests that health professionals can intervene in local sites of power to challenge harmful structures and rewrite norms within health professions education and clinical practice.
ADVANCES IN HEALTH SCIENCES EDUCATION
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Olufunmilayo Chinekezi, Lauri Andress, Etsemaye P. Agonafer, Susan Massick, Sarah Piepenbrink, Karey M. Sutton, Philip M. Alberti, Desiree De la Torre, Shannon Guillot-Wright, Marshala Lee
Summary: Inequities in health and health care in the United States have persisted for decades, and the impacts on equity from the COVID-19 pandemic were no exception. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) collaborated with a national collaborative, the AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE), to gather community perspectives on the role of academic medical centers (AMCs) in advancing health and social justice. Through virtual interviews with racially and ethnically diverse community members, the lack of trust between oppressed communities and AMCs was confirmed, leading to the development of the Principles of Trustworthiness (PoT) Toolkit.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Nursing
Elizabeth M. Heitkemper, Whitney Thurman
Summary: Considering the inequalities highlighted by the pandemic, it is time for nursing informatics to prioritize social justice and equity. Social justice informatics is an emerging field that utilizes data, information, and technology to advance equity through collaboration with diverse communities. This article proposes adopting a social justice informatics approach to shift power paradigms, center communities in the work, and ensure that future informatics work avoids unintended consequences.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Laura M. Wagner, Lena Driscoll, Jasmin L. Darlington, Victoria Flores, Julee Kim, Katerina Melino, Hema Doshi Patel, Joanne Spetz
JOURNAL OF GERONTOLOGICAL NURSING
(2018)
Article
Nursing
Matthew Tierney, Katerina Melino, Adebowale Adeniji, Martha Shumway, Isabel E. Allen, Catherine M. Waters
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC NURSES ASSOCIATION
(2019)
Review
Health Care Sciences & Services
Mary Allison McQuilkin, Elizabeth Gatewood, Bridget Gramkowski, Jay Michael Hunter, Andrea Kuster, Katerina Melino, Lisa Klee Mihaly
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF NURSE PRACTITIONERS
(2020)
Article
Nursing
Deborah S. Johnson, Amanda Ling, Katerina Melino
Summary: This study looked into the readiness of a behavioral health clinic to provide teleprecepting to psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner students, finding that teleprecepting is a feasible method to enhance access to clinical training.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC NURSES ASSOCIATION
(2021)
Article
Nursing
Daniel Wesemann, Sean Convoy, Dawn Goldstein, Kate Melino
Summary: This study surveyed how PMHNP programs in the United States ensure student competency in psychotherapy skill acquisition. The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing were the most commonly taught forms of psychotherapy. The use of psychotherapy clinical hours varied and were usually separate from other clinical hours. Student interest in psychotherapy skills was generally high.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC NURSES ASSOCIATION
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Katerina Melino
NURSING CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA
(2022)
Article
Nursing
Freya Collier-Sewell, Katerina Melino
Summary: This paper discusses the possibilities of nursing scholarship by using the authors' exchanged letters as a basis. The authors explore the concept of a new philosophy of mental health nursing and emphasize the importance of critical thinking and collaboration in the field. The purpose of this paper is to stimulate discussion and promote a shift towards criticality in the nursing community.
NURSING PHILOSOPHY
(2023)
