In public health research and reporting, there is an increasing interest in eco-social theory
and intersectional approaches to understand health inequity. Both approaches focus on the …

Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that posits that multiple social categories (eg,
race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status) intersect at the micro level …

The field of public health has increasingly promoted a social ecological approach to health,
shifting from an individual, biomedical paradigm to a recognition of social and structural …

The intersectionality approach emerged in the late 1990s in the field of black feminist
activism in the USA, as a critique of one-dimensional analyses of social inequalities. This …

Intersectionality, an analytical approach rooted in Black feminist theory and praxis, has
become more widely used in population health research. The majority of quantitative …

Scholars and activists working both within and outside the massive health-related machinery
of government and the private sector and within and outside communities of color address …

Health promotion researchers and practitioners are grappling with how to address growing
health inequalities for population groups. In particular, critiques of dominant behaviour …

“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” Remember the
movie, The Princess Bride (Reiner 1987)? If so, you likely recognize this quote. In the movie …

Intersectionality, an indispensable critical theoretical framework for public health, 1, 2 is
ideally suited to address the current “deadly confluence of health, economic, and racial …

Women's health research strives to make change. It seeks to produce knowledge that
promotes action on the variety of factors that affect women's lives and their health. As part of …