Racism. Sexism. Heterosexism. Gender binarism. Together, they comprise intimately
harmful, distinct, and entangled societal systems of self-serving domination and privilege …

Structural racism, which is embedded in past and present operations of the US housing
market, is a fundamental cause of racial health inequities. We conducted an ecologic study …

Psychology, and cross-cultural psychology (CCP) in particular, plays a pivotal role in
understanding the intricate relationship between culture and human behavior. This paper …

An indispensable read for all those seeking to address the severe problems of local and
global human health and environmental crises The widespread growth of monopolies and …

The “political economy of health” is concerned with how political and economic domains
interact and shape individual and population health outcomes. However, the term is …

Recent scholarship has sought to distinguish between the deeper societal factors that shape
the more proximate social determinants of health. One of these socio-structural institutions is …

Structural competency is a new curricular framework for training health professionals to
recognise and respond to disease and its unequal distribution as the outcome of social …

A systematic and theoretically informed analysis of how extractive industries affect health
outcomes and health inequities is overdue. Informed by the work of Saskia Sassen on …

Ethnographies of health systems are a theoretically rich and rapidly growing area within
medical anthropology. Critical ethnographic work dating back to the 1950s has taken …

In October 2018, the UK government, positioning itself as a global leader in mental health,
hosted a Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit. The event was scheduled to coincide with …