Research

Racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes: Unwarranted statistical adjustments and the perpetuation of stereotypes

Elsevier,

Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16, focusing on the underlying causes of racial disparities in SARS-CoV-2 infections and outcomes.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, North America

It's high time Canada started collecting race-based performance data on medical training and careers

Elsevier,

The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, Volume 14, October 2022

This Viewpoint supports SDGs 3 and 16 by presenting a call to action to collect race-based performance data for medical professionals, focusing particularly on the Canadian context.
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SDG:

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

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Data & Analytics; Diversity and inclusion, North America

One hundred years of solitude—underrepresentation of Indigenous and minority groups in diabetes trials

Elsevier, The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, October 2022
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Health and wellbeing, Global

Sustainable Fibres for Fashion and Textile Manufacturing - Chapter 1: Traditional fibres for fashion and textiles: Associated problems and future sustainable fibres

Elsevier,

Rajkishore Nayak, Lalit Jajpura, Asimanda Khandual, 1 - Traditional fibres for fashion and textiles: Associated problems and future sustainable fibres, Editor(s): Rajkishore Nayak, In The Textile Institute Book Series, Sustainable Fibres for Fashion and Textile Manufacturing, Woodhead Publishing, 2023, Pages 3-25, ISBN 9780128240526, https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-824052-6.00013-5.

This chapter advances UN SDG goal 12 by ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns
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SDG:

Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities; Goal 13: Climate action

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Sustainable consumption and production; Industry, Global

Ocean conservation boosts climate change mitigation and adaptation

Elsevier,

One Earth, Volume 5, 21 October 2022

This article reports the significant climate mitigation and adaptation efforts via marine conservation activities.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Biodiversity and ecosystems; Oceans & Seas; Ocean Conservation; Climate Change, Global

Improving Access to Eye Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature

Elsevier,

Ophthalmology, Volume 129, October 2022

Developing a working and inclusive definition of access to eye care.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Diversity and inclusion; Access to Health Care, Global, North America

(In)justice in modelled climate futures: A review of integrated assessment modelling critiques through a justice lens

Elsevier,

Energy Research and Social Science, Volume 92, October 2022

A review of climate futures. This review helps substantiate how disciplinary and geographical assumptions and norms shape policy choices.
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SDG:

Goal 7: Affordable and clean energy; Goal 13: Climate action

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Energy, Global

Navigating fundamental tensions towards a decolonial relational vision of planetary health

Elsevier,

The Lancet Planetary Health, Volume 6, October 2022

This Personal View supports SDGs 3 and 16, focusing on Indigenous epistemologies in planetary health and suggesting ways to work progressively towards a decolonial vision of planetary health.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and population; Diversity and inclusion

Ethnoracial inequalities and child mortality in Brazil: a nationwide longitudinal study of 19 million newborn babies

Elsevier,

The Lancet Global Health, Volume 10, October 2022

This Article supports SDGs 3 and 10 by highlighting substantial ethnoracial inequalities in child mortality in Brazil, especially among the Indigenous and Black populations.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and population; Diversity and inclusion, South America

Chapter 23 - Alzheimer's disease

Elsevier,

Oxidative Stress: Its Mechanisms and Impacts on Human Health and Disease Onset, 2023, Pages 291-297

This chapter advances the UN SDG goal 3 and 17 by discussing how Alzheimer's disease risk factors, as well as the mechanism for onset and progression, are related to elevated oxidative stress.
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SDG:

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

Tags:

Health and wellbeing; Health and population; Health Impact, Global

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