Rethinking the relationship between socioeconomic status and health: Challenging how socioeconomic status is currently used in health inequality research
| العنوان: | Rethinking the relationship between socioeconomic status and health: Challenging how socioeconomic status is currently used in health inequality research |
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| المؤلفون: | Adrian E. Ghenadenik, Thierry Gagné |
| المصدر: | Scandinavian Journal of Public Health. 46:53-56 |
| بيانات النشر: | SAGE Publications, 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Economic growth, Inequality, media_common.quotation_subject, Social Theory, Scandinavian and Nordic Countries, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, Political science, Humans, 030212 general & internal medicine, Journal of Public Health, Socioeconomic status, media_common, 030505 public health, business.industry, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Health Status Disparities, General Medicine, Social justice, Health equity, Social Class, Research Design, Publishing, Public Health, Periodicals as Topic, 0305 other medical science, business, Editorial Policies |
| الوصف: | Aims: The Scandinavian Journal of Public Health recently reiterated the importance of addressing social justice and health inequalities in its new editorial policy announcement. One of the related challenges highlighted in that issue was the limited use of sociological theories able to inform the complexity linking the resources and mechanisms captured by the concept of socioeconomic status. This debate article argues that part of the problem lies in the often unchallenged reliance on a generic conceptualization and operationalization of socioeconomic status. These practices hinder researchers’ capacity to examine in finer detail how resources and circumstances promote the unequal distribution of health through distinct yet intertwined pathways. As a potential way forward, this commentary explores how research practices can be challenged through concrete publication policies and guidelines. To this end, we propose a set of recommendations as a tool to strengthen the study of socioeconomic status and, ultimately, the quality of health inequality research. Conclusions: Authors, reviewers, and editors can become champions of change toward the implementation of sociological theory by holding higher standards regarding the conceptualization, operationalization, analysis, and interpretation of results in health inequality research. |
| تدمد: | 1651-1905 1403-4948 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::d25fc373b20e02a16c13b8e324534419 https://doi.org/10.1177/1403494817744987 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....d25fc373b20e02a16c13b8e324534419 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 16511905 14034948 |
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