Articles

COVID-19 in India: Who are we leaving behind?

Elsevier, Progress in Disaster Science, Volume 10, April 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities. People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some of the most affected groups in the Global South. Given the current living conditions of migrants, the WHO guidelines on how to prevent COVID-19 (such as handwashing, physical distancing and working from home) are challenging to nearly impossible in informal settlements.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 16: Peace, justice and strong institutions; Goal 3: Good health and well-being

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights; Health and population, Global

The ethical urgency of tackling racial inequities in health

Elsevier,

EClinicalMedicine, Volume 34, April 2021

" This Comment article supports SDG 3 and 10 by proposing that future studies exploring the link between racism and health inequalities are designed with more theoretically informed research questions, whose findings can more readily help tackle existing problems. Suggested areas for further research include the impact of neighourhood desegregation, increased racial diversity in labour markets, and reduced mass incarceration in diminishing racial health inequalities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Global

Denied the right to comfort: Racial inequities in palliative care provision

Elsevier,

EClinicalMedicine, Volume 34, April 2021

This Comment supports SDGs 3 and 10 by highlighting inequities in palliative care between racial groups, including differences in the use of palliative care services, symptom control, and the documentation and implementation of people's end of life wishes.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, North America

Longitudinal assessment of symptoms and risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection in healthcare workers across 5 hospitals to understand ethnic differences in infection risk.

Elsevier,

EClinicalMedicine, Volume 34, April 2021

This Research paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by assessing ethnic differences in SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity among hospital workers. The findings showed that Black people had more than double the likelihood of SARS-CoV-2 seropositivity compared with White people, independent of age, sex, socioeconomic factors, and hospital role.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing, Europe

Diversity and solidarity in global health

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, April 2021

This Comment article supports SDGs 3, 10, and 17 by highlighting the need for full inclusivity and representation, and the involvement of a diverse range of stakeholders and voices, in order to successfully design solutions to global health problems and to reform the systems that are exacerbating global health inequities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 17: Partnership for the goals

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Information for integrated Decision-Making & Participation; Multi-stakeholder partnerships, Global

Performance of intensive care unit severity scoring systems across different ethnicities in the USA: a retrospective observational study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, April 2021

This Article supprts SDGs 3 and 10 by assessing the performance of four severity scoring systems used for case-mix determination and benchmarking in intensive care units to identify possible ethnicity-based bias. The study found systemic differences in calibration across ethnicities.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, North America

Health data poverty: an assailable barrier to equitable digital health care

Elsevier,

The Lancet Digital Health, Volume 3, April 2021

Data-driven digital health technologies have the power to transform health care. If these tools could be sustainably delivered at scale, they might have the potential to provide everyone, everywhere, with equitable access to expert-level care, narrowing the global health and wellbeing gap. Conversely, it is highly possible that these transformative technologies could exacerbate existing health-care inequalities instead.

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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Access to Health Care, Global

Decentralisation, integration, and task-shifting in hepatitis C virus infection testing and treatment: a global systematic review and meta-analysis

Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, April 2021
Background: Increasing access to hepatitis C virus (HCV) care and treatment will require simplified service delivery models. We aimed to evaluate the effects of decentralisation and integration of testing, care, and treatment with harm-reduction and other services, and task-shifting to non-specialists on outcomes across the HCV care continuum.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Capacity Building; Supply chain, Global

Does thermal history influence thermal tolerance of the freshwater fish Galaxias zebratus in a global biodiversity hotspot?

Elsevier,

Journal of Thermal Biology, Volume 97, April 2021

Compared to other climate regions of the world, Mediterranean regions are likely to experience more severe effects of climate change as rainfall decreases and temperatures increase. Global climate change models predict a reduction in rainfall and rise in the temperature of rivers in South Africa's Cape Fold Ecoregion (CFE) – a Mediterranean region in the south-west corner of the country.

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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 15: Life on land

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Oceans & Seas; Thermal Energy, Global

Environmental sustainability and prevention of heavy metal pollution of some geo-materials within a city in southwestern Nigeria

Elsevier,

Heliyon, Volume 7, April 2021

This paper investigated the ways in which air pollution can be reduced through enhanced environmental sustainability by looking at groundwater, soil and stream sediment samples.
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SDG:

Goal 6: Clean water and sanitation; Goal 13: Climate action

Tags:

Green economy; Health and population, Africa

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