Topic
Health equity research, explained
20 open-access health equity studies, each with a flashcard deck and a quiz.
- Who actually uses eHealth once they are online?
In HINTS 2012 (N=3959; 2358 Internet users), online eHealth use showed no racial/ethnic divide, but lower education predicted much lower odds of finding a clinician online (OR 0.50) or emailing a doctor (OR 0.46); women used eHealth more.
- SASA! cut partner violence in Kampala
A Kampala cluster RCT found community mobilization (SASA!) associated with roughly 50% lower past-year physical IPV and male partner concurrency.
- Does having more long-term illnesses raise the risk of death?
The more long-term conditions a middle-aged or older adult had, the higher their risk of dying over about seven years, and the relative jump in risk was largest in younger adults.
- U09.9 coding reveals long COVID clusters and gaps
Among 33,782 U09.9-coded US EHR patients, co-occurring diagnoses clustered into organ-system groups while coded cases skewed toward advantaged, White, female patients.
- Who in the US has the poorest diet scores?
Among 155,331 CPS-3 adults, poor ACS diet quality was independently higher in Black (+16%) and rural (+61%) participants and in food deserts (+17%), while Hispanic (−16%) and Asian/NHPI (−33%) groups had lower risk.
- Did US premature-death inequities only widen as health improved?
US premature mortality inequities shrank in the late 1960s–1970s then widened or stagnated—showing disparities do not automatically move with average health.
- Is China’s digital divide tied to health gaps?
In older Chinese adults, Internet use was rare and SES-linked, while mobile phones were common—shaping how digital tools might reduce health disparities.
- How can services better serve Indigenous Australians with chronic illness?
Indigenous Australians with chronic illness described discrimination in mainstream care and proposed strategic fixes for fairer services.
- Do people with bipolar disorder get less heart-disease treatment?
People with bipolar disorder in Scottish general practice had more physical illnesses overall, but those with heart disease or high blood pressure were less likely to be prescribed statins and blood-pressure drugs than other patients.
- Is homeless health just the bottom of the deprivation slope?
Among 1336 homeless and 13,360 housed adults, chronic diseases jumped far above even the most deprived housed quintile (COPD 14% vs 2%), which the authors call a health ‘cliff’.
- How much do four risks explain US life-expectancy gaps?
Smoking, high blood pressure, high glucose, and adiposity help explain large US life-expectancy disparities across race–place groups (Eight Americas).
- Discrimination in care for homeless adults
Among homeless adults with mental illness, perceived healthcare discrimination—especially for mental illness/poverty—linked to worse symptoms and more ED use.
- Did China’s two-child policy change birth defects?
In 1.26 million Zhejiang births, advanced maternal age nearly doubled after the two-child policy and total birth-defect prevalence rose, especially chromosomal anomalies.
- Is air pollution harder on older women’s cognition than men’s?
In 1,484 Koreans aged ≥55, higher PM10 and coarse PM were linked to worse MMSE more in women than men; NO2 harm was also larger in women, especially outside metros.
- Widening NSW cancer survival gaps
Among 651,245 NSW cancer cases, people in more disadvantaged areas had higher cancer death risk, and disparities appeared to widen over time.
- Individual SES and cancer survival
UK linked-data analysis shows both area deprivation and individual SES shape cancer survival, with wider absolute gaps in the most deprived areas.
- Cancer help-seeking in deprivation
Interviews in Wales’s most deprived areas show socio-environmental barriers—not just knowledge—shape delayed cancer symptom presentation.
- Screening and breast cancer equity in NZ
Screen-detected cancers were less common in Māori women, and crude survival was worse, but survival gaps narrowed among screen-detected cases.
- How common are zero-dose children in underserved Ethiopia?
In June 2022 surveys of underserved settings, 33.7% of children were zero-dose; poverty, young/single motherhood, and weak ANC/PNC strongly predicted the gap.
- Does poverty show up on biological aging clocks?
In 48,348 NHANES adults, higher poverty tracked faster PhenoAge and KDM aging (B=1.38 and 0.96 extreme contrast), especially in midlife.