Articles

The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

Elsevier, The Lancet, Volume 398, 30 October 2021

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 13: Climate action

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Green space and mortality in European cities: a health impact assessment study

Elsevier, The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 5, October 2021

Background: Natural outdoor environments including green spaces play an important role in preserving population health and wellbeing in cities, but the number of deaths that could be prevented by increasing green space in European cities is not known. We aimed to estimate the number of natural-cause deaths among adult residents that could be prevented in cities in 31 European countries, if the WHO recommendation for universal access to green space was achieved.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

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Health and population; Sustainable cities and human settlements, Europe

Barriers to Voting and Access to Health Insurance Among US Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study

Elsevier, The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 2, October 2021

Background: Many states in the United States (US) have introduced barriers to impede voting among individuals from socio-economically disadvantaged groups. This may reduce representation thereby decreasing access to lifesaving goods, such as health insurance. Methods: We used cross-sectional data from 242,727 adults in the 50 states and District of Columbia participating in the US 2017 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS). To quantify access to voting, the Cost of Voting Index (COVI), a global measure of barriers to voting within a state during a US election was used.

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; Access to Health Care, North America

Air pollution as a social and structural determinant of health

Elsevier, The Journal of Climate Change and Health,
Volume 3,
2021,
100035

Both short-term and chronic exposure to fine particulate matter air pollution (PM2.5) are known to cause a host of adverse health outcomes, including premature death. This paper will review sources, health impacts and health inequities associated with PM2.5, and will frame PM2.5 as both a social and structural determinant of health.

SDG:

Goal 3: Good health and well-being; Goal 10: Reduced inequalities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, North America

Fatal police violence by race and state in the USA, 1980–2019: a network meta-regression

Elsevier, The Lancet, Volume 398, 2 October 2021

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by showing substantial differences in the age-standardised mortality rate due to police violence over time and by racial and ethnic groups within the USA.

SDG:

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

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Health and population; Diversity and inclusion; Regression Analysis, North America

Epistemic injustice in academic global health

Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 9, October 2021

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 10 by discussing how common practices in academic global health are peppered with epistemic wrongs that lead to or exacerbate epistemic injustice; for example, members of the global heath community often witness a cycle in which researchers assume that locals in marginalised areas and members of marginalised groups do not have the capacity to contribute to research, and thereby bypass such people's participation.

SDG:

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

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

Polypharmacy-associated risk of hospitalisation among people ageing with and without HIV: an observational study

Elsevier, The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Volume 2, October 2021

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10, assessing whether people ageing with HIV have more drug-drug interactions than those without HIV, and whether this confers greater risk of hospitalisation.

SDG:

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

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Health and population; Health and wellbeing, North America

Global, regional, and national sex-specific burden and control of the HIV epidemic, 1990–2019, for 204 countries and territories: the Global Burden of Diseases Study 2019

Elsevier, The Lancet HIV, Volume 8, October 2021

An Article in support of SDG 3, assessing the current sex-specific HIV burden in 204 countries and territories and measuring progress in the control of the epidemic.