Health inequities
A persistent global challenge from past to future
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15394458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J Rad (University of Exeter, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 148-148 |
| Publication date | 2025-05-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal for Equity in Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1475-9276 • E-ISSN: 1475-9276 |
| Publisher | BioMed Central (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1186/s12939-025-02526-y |
| PMID | 40410748 |
| OpenAlex | W4410640085 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 15 |
Health inequities remain one of the most pressing global challenges, deeply rooted in socio-economic, environmental, and technological factors. These disparities, historically influenced by colonial legacies and socio-economic inequality, persist into the present, with new challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change further widening them. Looking ahead, the rise of digital health technologies and worsening climate impacts present additional risks. This comment explores the historical, present, and future dimensions of health inequalities and offers evidence-based solutions, including strengthening health systems, addressing social determinants, building climate-resilient healthcare, and bridging the digital divide. Achieving health equity requires bold, systemic changes to ensure universal access to quality healthcare
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Health care reform · Health services research · Healthcare policy · International health · Medical sociology · Political science · Public health · Quality of Life Research · Social policy · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Global Health Care Issues · Health disparities and outcomes · Law · Medicine · Nursing · Health Policy
World Cafés as a method of identifying cross-sectoral policy solutions to social determinants of health equity in Australia
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Youth washing as a corporate social responsibility tactic of health-harming industries
Explainable Patient-Level Cognitive Impairment Screening via Temporal, Semantic, and Psycholinguistic Multimodal AI
A cross-national analysis of systemic barriers and support frameworks for youth with disabilities
Environmental exposures, microbiome dynamics and chronic disease risk in climate-vulnerable regions
Teaching inclusion health principles
US new playbook for global health
Identifying priority diseases and injuries to promote equality as measured by health-adjusted life expectancy
Capturing spatio-temporal variations in SDG interactions and prioritizations
Building reparative futures demands a reckoning with the crisis form of global health
The Catholic Appeal to Health
Colonial legacies and cultural influences on discard behaviour
A Nation-Wide Inequality Exploration of Healthcare Services and Medical and Paramedical Professionals at the Region Level in France
Equity gaps in neglected tropical disease research in Malaysia
Race, Social Context, and Caregiving Intensity
The 2023 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change
Health Disparities and Health Equity
Health systems development in Thailand
The Lancet Commission on lessons for the future from the Covid-19 pandemic
The Epidemiologic Transition
Climate change, natural calamities and the triple burden of disease
Sachs, Jeffrey et al. (2022), “The Lancet Commission on Lessons for the Future from the Covid-19 Pandemic”
Strategies to strengthen a climate-resilient health system
Medicine, Empires, and Ethics in Colonial Africa
Disconnected in a pandemic
The Ghana Community-based Health Planning and Services Initiative for scaling up service delivery innovation
| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 17 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |