Articles

Ethnicity-specific BMI cutoffs for obesity based on type 2 diabetes risk in England: a population-based cohort study

Elsevier,

The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology, Volume 9, July 2021

This article supports SGDs 3 and 10 by identifying ethnicity-specific body-mass index cutoffs for obesity based on type 2 diabetes risk-equivalence to the cutoff in White populations. The findings suggest ethnicity-specific body-mass index cutoffs are needed to optimise prevention and management of type 2 diabetes.
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SDG:

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

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Diversity and inclusion, Europe

Structural racism and risk of SARS-CoV-2 in pregnancy

Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 37, July 2021

This Research paper supports SDGs 3 and 10 by characterising racial disparities among pregnant women with SARS-CoV-2. The findings showed that Black women were more likely to have occupational exposure to SARS-CoV-2 than White women and that Black women with SARS-CoV-2 during pregnancy were more likely to have a preterm delivery.
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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

A call for reforms in global health publications

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, July 2021

This Comment article advances SDG 3 and 10 by highlighting the disproportionate imbalance of power in global health research, and calls for reforms in publishing and academia to ensure greater representation of global health researchers from low-income and middle-income countries in prestigious, high-impact journals.
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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 wellbeing, Global

The words we choose matter: recognising the importance of language in decolonising global health

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, July 2021

This Comment article advances SDG 3 and 10 by making a case for bridging language barriers in global health research and overcoming the colonial legacy of language in global health (from the naming of infectious diseases to the use of global health terms with problematic historical connotations), with the aim of facilitating knowledge co-production and more equal research partnerships.
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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, Global

Clinical and social factors associated with involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation in children and adolescents: a systematic review, meta-analysis, and narrative synthesis

Elsevier,

The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health, Volume 5, July 2021

This study supports SDG 3 and 10 by highlighting an overrepresentation of Black children and adolescents in involuntary psychiatric hospitalisations, which may establish potentially lifelong negative mental health treatment trajectories and contribute to cycles of health inequality that persist in later life.
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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, Global

Socioeconomic deprivation and genetic ancestry interact to modify type 2 diabetes ethnic disparities in the United Kingdom

Elsevier,

eClinicalMedicine, Volume 37, July 2021

This study supports SDGs 3 and 10 by investigating the role of genetic ancestry in ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes, and interactions with socioeconomic deprivation. The effects of environmental risk factors were found to differ among ancestry groups, suggesting the need for group-specific interventions.
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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; Socioeconomic Impact, Europe

A call for action that cannot go to voicemail: Research activism to urgently improve Indigenous perinatal health and wellbeing

Elsevier,

Women and Birth, Volume 34, July 2021

Research activism to urgently improve Indigenous perinatal health and wellbeing.
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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 4: Quality education

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Diversity and inclusion, Oceania

Abortion information governance and women's travels across European borders

Elsevier,

Women's Studies International Forum, Volume 87, 1 July 2021

The World Health Organization considers the provision of information about safe, legal abortion essential for good-quality abortion care, but the question remains about who is responsible for providing information to people whose needs are not met in their own countries. Using data from a mixed-method research conducted with women travelling from France, Germany, Italy, and Ireland to seek abortion care in the UK, the Netherland, and Spain, we map the trajectories through which people receive information about accessing abortion abroad.

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SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 5: Gender equality; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Health and wellbeing; Human rights; Education; Abortion, Europe

Disabled in academia: to be or not to be, that is the question

Elsevier,

Trends in Neurosciences, Volume 44, July 2021

The authors discuss the complexities of diversity disclosure within academia.
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SDG:

Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Academia

Financial incentives for large-scale wetland restoration: Beyond markets to common asset trusts

Elsevier, One Earth, Volume 4, 23 July 2021
Wetlands provide ∼$47.4 trillion/year worth of ecosystem services globally and support immense biodiversity, yet face widespread drainage and pollution, and large-scale wetlands restoration is urgently needed. Payment for ecosystem service (PES) schemes provide a viable avenue for funding large-scale wetland restoration. However, schemes around the globe differ substantially in their goals, structure, challenges, and effectiveness in supporting large-scale wetland restoration.
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SDG:

Goal 13: Climate action; Goal 14: Life below water; Goal 15: Life on land

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Biodiversity and ecosystems; Finance, Global

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