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Structural inequalities and health outcomes for chronic disease / edited by Leonard E. Egede.

Elsevier ScienceDirect eBook - Biomedical Science 2025 Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Egede, Leonard E., editor.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Chronic diseases--Epidemiology.
Chronic diseases.
Equality--Health aspects.
Equality.
Health services accessibility.
Medical policy.
Chronic diseases--Treatment.
Health Inequities.
Chronic Disease--epidemiology.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Social Determinants of Health.
Treatment Outcome.
Healthcare Disparities.
Health Services Accessibility.
Health Policy.
Medical Subjects:
Health Inequities.
Chronic Disease--epidemiology.
Socioeconomic Factors.
Social Determinants of Health.
Treatment Outcome.
Healthcare Disparities.
Health Services Accessibility.
Health Policy.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxix, 739 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
London : Academic Press, an imprint of Elsevier, [2025]
Summary:
Structural Inequalities and Health Outcomes for Chronic Disease provides a conceptual framework for understanding existing evidence and guides the research around promising interventions and policies.In addition, it demonstrates how structural inequalities impact health and presents ways the healthcare system can participate in the solution.
Contents:
Front Cover
Structural Inequalities and Health Outcomes for Chronic Disease
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Contributors
About the editor
Early life and education
Medical and academic career
Research focus and contributions
Leadership and advocacy
Publications and recognition
Legacy and impact
Foreword
Preface
1 - Definitions, frameworks, and historical perspectives
1 - Overview of the textbook
Health disparities
Social and structural determinants of health
Outline of book
References
2 - Structural inequalities: Definitions and historical context
Structural racism and the convergence of social theory, health equity, and the biologic sciences: Contradictions and misapp ...
Political and societal framing of social problems as individual problems
Social problems as structural inequality? Social and historical theory
Critical legal studies (CLS) movement and critical race theory (CRT)
Public health critical race praxis
Intersectionality
Fundamental cause theory and ubiquitous causes
Political economy
Historical analysis of structural inequalities and structural racism: From the long and wide to the narrow and deep
The longue durée as historical structure
World-systems theory
Interimperial framework
Settler colonial framework
Historical grounding of structural inequalities and structural racism in the US
European history and its influence on the American settler colonial project
England's land enclosure acts and settlers for the new world
Colonialism and European settler colonies of the Americas
US population boom advances white settlement and citizenship
Indigenous Americans
Closing
References.
3 - Conceptual models and frameworks for addressing structural inequalities in chronic disease outcomes
Background and definitions of structural inequalities
Theory, concepts, variables, models, and frameworks
Conceptual models and frameworks in health equity research
Social ecological model of health
The behavioral model of health services use (Andersen model of health services use)
World Health Organization's social determinants of health conceptual framework
Healthy people framework for social determinants of health
National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities framework
Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) framework for social determinants of health
Disease-specific frameworks
Diabetes-Brown model for the relationship between socioeconomic position and health among persons with diabetes
Cancer-Social and built environment characteristics on the cancer continuum
Cardiovascular disease-Framework for race as social determinants of health (SDOH): Upstream, midstream, downstream pathways
Kidney disease-Conceptual framework for root causes of kidney health disparities
Conclusion and opportunities
Choosing, adapting, and validating
Future steps
2 - Summarizing the evidence: Structural racism and health outcomes
4 - Structural inequities and chronic disease health outcomes: Cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and stroke
Introduction
The societal and economic impacts of cardiovascular disease
Stroke
Hypertension
Systemic and structural racism: Key drivers of disparities in poor cardiovascular disease outcomes among minoritized comm ...
Overview of the intersection between structural inequities and cardiovascular outcomes
Overview of the intersection between structural inequities and stroke outcomes.
Overview of the intersection between structural inequities and hypertension outcomes
Conceptual model linking structural inequities, social determinants of health, and cardiovascular health
Methods of review
Review of evidence linking structural inequities, social determinants of health, and cardiovascular disease, hypertension, ...
SES and economic stability
Education
Neighborhood and built environment
Criminal justice system and neighborhood safety
Housing stability and homelessness
Healthcare access and quality
Environmental exposures
Pathways and mechanisms
Community and social context
Discrimination
Stressors
Health behaviors
Limitations
Summary and future directions for research, clinical practice, and health policy
5 - Structural inequalities and chronic disease health outcomes: Type 2 diabetes
Burden of diabetes
Disparities in diabetes
Social and structural drivers of health
Conceptual models linking structural inequities, social determinants of health, and diabetes
Review of evidence
Domain: Economic stability
Prevalence of disease
Clinical outcomes
Quality of life
Mortality
Domain: Education
Domain: Community and social context
Clinical outcomes and quality of life
Domain: Neighborhood and built environment
Quality of life and mortality
Domain: Health and healthcare system
Domain: Food environment
Pathways and mechanisms.
Summary and future directions for research, clinical practice, and health policy
Future directions for research
Future directions for clinical practice
Future directions for health policy
Conclusion
6 - Structural inequalities and chronic disease health outcomes: Chronic kidney disease
Introduction and overview of chronic kidney disease
Definition, diagnosis, and staging
Glomerular filtration rate
Estimated glomerular filtration rate equations
Spectrum of chronic kidney disease care
Prevalence and disparities in the burden of chronic kidney disease
Burden of chronic kidney disease-Transplant
Disparities in burden of chronic kidney disease-Transplant
Role of upstream factors
Conceptual framework for kidney health disparities
Summary of the evidence by structural factors across the spectrum of chronic kidney disease
Neighborhood/built environment
Residential segregation
Housing instability/insecurity
Access to care and quality of care
Modalities of dialysis
Dialysis adequacy
Anemia in end-stage kidney disease
Mineral bone disorders in end-stage kidney disease
Dialysis access in end-stage kidney disease
Health literacy
Socioeconomic status and economic stability
Educational attainment and education quality
Economic stability, income, employment
Food environment
Social cohesion
Social support
Behavior and biological factors
Genetic factors
Maternal and fetal deprivation
Gaps in knowledge and suggested solutions
Genetic versus social determinants
Cultural barriers to care
Role of implicit bias
Access to early detection and prevention
Barriers to transplantation
Impact of environmental factors
Intersectionality in disparities
Conclusion and path forward
7 - Structural inequalities and chronic disease health outcomes: Mental health
Overview of disparities and inequities in mental health
Conceptual frameworks for understanding inequity
Review methodology
Evidence of structural factors impacts on mental health by structure/identity
Race and ethnicity
Gender and sexual orientation
Gaps in knowledge
Future directions
Research and policy
Clinical practice and training
8 - Structural inequalities and chronic disease outcomes: Cancer
Introduction and overview of the topic
Burden of disease
Unequal burden of cancer globally
Conceptual framework for understanding and addressing social determinants to advance cancer health equity
Living environments
Social and physical (built) environments
Economic and service living environments
Institutional environments
9 - Structural inequalities in chronic disease health outcomes: Musculoskeletal diseases and disorders
Chapter overview
Burden of musculoskeletal disorders
Demographic disparities in the burden of disease
Differential impact on healthcare access, quality and outcomes
Conceptual frameworks of structural inequalities in musculoskeletal diseases and disorders
Summary of current evidence on the structural determinants of musculoskeletal diseases and disorders
Identifying the research question
Identifying relevant studies
Study selection
Charting, summarizing, and reporting results
Structural factors
Access and quality
Food environment.
Community/social context.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-443-23751-4
OCLC:
1520883362

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