Background: Better understanding and addressing health inequities is a growing global
priority. Objective: In this paper, we contribute to the literature examining complex …

Comments on an article by Maria Wemrell et al.(see record 2017-09829-024). There is
growing interest in applying intersectional approaches in health inequalities research. While …

There is a growing sense that current approaches to health inequities in Canada and
elsewhere are insufficient for increasing the understanding of multifactoral and multi-level …

Intersectionality has emerged as an important framework for understanding and responding
to health inequities by making visible the fluid and interconnected structures of power that …

The concept of intersectionality was developed by social scientists seeking to analyse the
multiple interacting influences of social location, identity and historical oppression. Despite …

Theoretical and empirical efforts to understand and address disparities in health have
emerged in multiple arenas and among scholars and practitioners working within public …

Although intersectionality is now recognized in the context of women's health, men's health,
and gender and health, its full implications for research, policy, and practice have not yet …

Intersectionality theory, developed to address the non-additivity of effects of sex/gender and
race/ethnicity but extendable to other domains, allows for the potential to study health and …

Epidemiological research increasingly recognises that health disparities are driven by
complex interplay among factors including housing, education and employment. 1 …

Rationale Quantitative health disparities research has increasingly employed
intersectionality as a theoretical tool to investigate how social characteristics intersect to …