Goal 10: Reduced inequalities

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Access to justice; Health and wellbeing; Human rights, North America

COVID-19 and climate change: Crises of structural racism

The Journal of Climate Change and Health, Volume 5, 2022, 100092

As both COVID-19 and climate change crises converged and even contributed to each other, a much older crisis reemerged: structural racism and the policy stagnation that refuses to address it.

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Diversity and inclusion; National Sustainable Development Strategies (NSDS), North America

Future Directions in Digital Information Predictions, Practice, Participation Chandos Digital Information Review: Chapter 5 - The power of accessible knowledge: Universities, suppliers, and transparency in the information age

Future Directions in Digital Information Predictions, Practice, Participation Chandos Digital Information Review 2021, Pages 71-92

This book chapter advances SDG3 Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG10 Reducing Inequalities by focusing on resources for a disabled user, the right format, from the right publisher, delivered through the right platform to the right tools, enables efficient independent access.

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

Chapter 5 - Addressing diversity in prenatal genetic counseling

Prenatal Genetic Counseling, Practical support for prenatal diagnostics, decision-making, and dealing with uncertainty, 2022, Pages 83-103

Aims to inform how to address cultural, religious, and ethnic diversity in prenatal genetic counseling. The goal of SDG targer 3.2 is to end preventable deaths of newborns and children under 5 years of age, with all countries aiming to reduce neonatal mortality to at least as low as 12 per 1,000 live births and under‑5 mortality to at least as low as 25 per 1,000 live births

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Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Gender equality and women's empowerment, Global

The Inequality of COVID-19 - Chapter 6 - COVID-19 communication and Indigenous Australians

The Inequality of COVID-19, Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions, 2022, Pages 177-198

Australian Aboriginal peoples led the mitigation efforts and are credited for their resilience and discipline in the relatively successful management of the pandemic. This chapter is an examination of COVID-19 mitigation process and programs focusing on Indigenous communities of Australia.

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Disaster risk reduction; Health and population, Oceania

The Inequality of COVID-19 - Chapter 1 - Introduction

The Inequality of COVID-19, Immediate Health Communication, Governance and Response in Four Indigenous Regions, 2022, Pages 1-29

While COVID-19 is a global public health crisis, scholars have not adequately addressed unequal virus effects as was witnessed in marginalized Indigenous communities. This chapter is an introduction of unequal pandemic response by various governments.

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Disaster risk reduction; Health and population, Global

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

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.

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Diversity and inclusion; Health and population; Health and wellbeing; Access to Health Care, North America

COP26 Special Issue: UN Climate Change Conference 2021

Elsevier

COP26 is the 2021 United Nations annual climate change conference. COP stands for Conference of the Parties.

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Special collections

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Data & Analytics; Health and wellbeing; Rule of Law; Science; Oceans & Seas; Sustainable cities and human settlements; Sustainable consumption and production; Water and sanitation; Sustainable transport; Technology; Energy; Chemicals and waste; Health and population, Global

Air pollution as a social and structural determinant of health

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.

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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

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.

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