Addressing social determinants of health in the care of patients with heart failure: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

C White-Williams, LP Rossi, VA Bittner, A Driscoll… - Circulation, 2020 - Am Heart Assoc
Heart failure is a clinical syndrome that affects> 6.5 million Americans, with an estimated 550
000 new cases diagnosed each year. The complexity of heart failure management is …

Pandemic palliative care: beyond ventilators and saving lives

A Arya, S Buchman, B Gagnon, J Downar - Cmaj, 2020 - Can Med Assoc
CoV-2) pandemic will likely strain our health care system beyond capacity, and palliative
care services will be needed across many different care settings, including intensive care …

[HTML][HTML] Pain in persons who are marginalized by social conditions

KD Craig, C Holmes, M Hudspith, G Moor… - Pain, 2020 - journals.lww.com
Pain is often poorly recognized, inadequately assessed, and unsuccessfully managed
among people in mainstream society, 7, 40 but this is particularly the case for people who …

“Just too busy living in the moment and surviving”: barriers to accessing health care for structurally vulnerable populations at end-of-life

KI Stajduhar, A Mollison, M Giesbrecht, R McNeil… - BMC palliative …, 2019 - Springer
Background Despite access to quality care at the end-of-life (EOL) being considered a
human right, it is not equitable, with many facing significant barriers. Most research …

The equity turn in palliative and end of life care research: Lessons from the poverty literature

N Richards - Sociology Compass, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Palliative and end of life care researchers are being issued 'wake up'calls that they need to
start adopting an equity framework and pay more attention to how the social determinants of …

Barriers to cancer treatment and care for people experiencing structural vulnerability: a secondary analysis of ethnographic data

A Bourgeois, TC Horrill, A Mollison, LK Lambert… - International Journal for …, 2023 - Springer
Background A key pillar of Canada's healthcare system is universal access, yet significant
barriers to cancer services remain for people impacted by structural vulnerability (eg …

A scoping review of palliative care for persons with severe persistent mental illness

EE Donald, KI Stajduhar - Palliative & supportive care, 2019 - cambridge.org
ObjectivePeople with severe persistent mental illness (SPMI) experience a greater burden
and severity of chronic disease, late diagnosis, and premature death compared with the …

Hospitals, clinics, and palliative care units: Place-based experiences of formal healthcare settings by people experiencing structural vulnerability at the end-of-life

M Giesbrecht, KI Stajduhar, A Mollison, B Pauly… - Health & Place, 2018 - Elsevier
The process of dying pronounces inequities, particularly for structurally vulnerable
populations. Extending recent health geography research, we critically explore how the …

Disadvantaged and disenfranchised in bereavement: A scoping review of social and structural inequity following expected death

K Bindley, J Lewis, J Travaglia, M DiGiacomo - Social Science & Medicine, 2019 - Elsevier
An emphasis on individual intervention and psychological complexity has characterised
research on bereavement following an experience of life-limiting illness. Exploration of …

Equity-oriented healthcare: What it is and why we need it in oncology

TC Horrill, AJ Browne, KI Stajduhar - Current Oncology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alarming differences exist in cancer outcomes for people most impacted by persistent and
widening health and social inequities. People who are socially disadvantaged often have …