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Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity

Bauer, Greta R. - In: Social Science & Medicine 110 (2014) C, pp. 10-17

Intersectionality theory, developed to address the non-additivity of effects of sex/gender and race/ethnicity but … position, processes of oppression or privilege, and policies or institutional practices. Intersectionality has the potential to … research. In this paper, challenges to incorporation of intersectionality into population health research are identified or …

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Marginalized identities, discrimination burden, and mental health: Empirical exploration of an interpersonal-level approach to modeling intersectionality

Seng, Julia S.; Lopez, William D.; Sperlich, Mickey; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2437-2445

Intersectionality is a term used to describe the intersecting effects of race, class, gender, and other marginalizing … intersectionality has been well-described conceptually, approaches to modeling it in quantitative studies of health outcomes are still … objective was to extend these methodological efforts by modeling intersectionality across three levels: structural, contextual …

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Intersectionality and gender mainstreaming in international health: Using a feminist participatory action research process to analyse voices and debates from the global south and n...

Tolhurst, Rachel; Leach, Beryl; Price, Janet; Robinson, Jude - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1825-1832

Critiques of gender mainstreaming (GM) as the officially agreed strategy to promote gender equity in health internationally have reached a critical mass. There has been a notable lack of dialogue between gender advocates in the global north and south, from policy and practice, governments and...

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Who gains, who loses and how: Leveraging gender and class intersections to secure health entitlements

Sen, Gita; Iyer, Aditi - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1802-1811

This paper argues that a focus on the middle groups in a multi-dimensional socioeconomic ordering can provide valuable insights into how different axes of advantage and disadvantage intersect with each other. It develops the elements of a framework to analyse the middle groups through an...

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Mississippi front-line recovery work after Hurricane Katrina: An analysis of the intersections of gender, race, and class in advocacy, power relations, and health

Weber, Lynn; Hilfinger Messias, DeAnne K. - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1833-1841

By disrupting the routine practices and social structures that support social hierarchy, disasters provide a unique opportunity to observe how gender, race, and class power relations are enacted and reconstituted to shape health inequities. Using a feminist intersectional framework, we examine...

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Women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health: Implications of intersectionality

Hankivsky, Olena - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1712-1720

Although intersectionality is now recognized in the context of women’s health, men’s health, and gender and health, its … intersectionality perspective, the common struggles within each field to confront the complex interplay of factors that shape health … inequities. Drawing on developments within intersectionality scholarship and various sources of research and policy evidence …

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Triple jeopardy? Mental health at the intersection of gender, race, and class

Rosenfield, Sarah - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1791-1801

Structural theories of stratification predict that groups with low positions in social hierarchies experience high rates of mental health problems. Extensions of this approach such as a triple jeopardy hypotheses claim that groups that are subordinate in multiple stratification systems such as...

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Towards the inclusion of gender and sex in health research and funding: An institutional perspective

Sharman, Zena; Johnson, Joy - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 11, pp. 1812-1816

In this commentary, we reflect on the challenges of incorporating gender and sex into health research and funding and discuss some of the strategies we have employed in our efforts to overcome them. We write from our vantage point within Institute of Gender and Health, one of the 13 institutes...

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Race, gender, class, sexuality (RGCS) and hypertension

Veenstra, Gerry - In: Social Science & Medicine 89 (2013) C, pp. 16-24

Informed by intersectionality theory, a tradition that theorizes intersecting power relations of racism, patriarchy …

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At the intersection of sexual orientation, race/ethnicity, and cervical cancer screening: Assessing Pap test use disparities by sex of sexual partners among black, Latina, and whit...

Agénor, Madina; Krieger, Nancy; Austin, S. Bryn; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 116 (2014) C, pp. 110-118

challenge for public health. Guided by ecosocial theory and intersectionality, we used data from the 2006–2010 National Survey … and intersectionality can be used in tandem to conceptually and operationally elucidate previously unanalyzed health …

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