El abordaje de la interseccionalidad emergió a fines de la década de 1980, en el campo del
activismo feminista negro en EEUU, como crítica a los análisis unidimensionales de las …

The discipline of epidemiology, which holds major influence on public health policy as well
as on clinical medical practice, has in recent decades to a large extent been concerned with …

Rotavirus (RV) is the leading cause of diarrhea-related death in children worldwide and
ninety-five percent of rotavirus deaths occur in Africa and Asia. Rotavirus vaccines (RVV) …

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

This book brings feminist theories and concepts to the sociology of risk in an attempt to
define intersectional risk theories in times of ambivalence. Why ambivalence? As Smart …

Intersectionality theory can contribute to epidemiology and public health by furthering
understanding of power dynamics driving production of health disparities, and increasing …

Western discourses about young people and sexuality centre around the concept of risk.
Anxieties have been fuelled by the increasing popularity of social media and practices such …

Seasonal flu vaccination rates are low for US adults, with significant disparities between
African and white Americans. Risk perception is a significant predictor of vaccine behavior …

On Vulnerability maps out an array of perspectives for critically examining the nature of
vulnerability, its unequal patterning across different social groups, alongside the everyday …

Many studies have demonstrated the existence of simple, unidimensional socioeconomic
gradients in body mass index (BMI). However, in the present paper we move beyond such …