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From causes to solutions - insights from lay knowledge about health inequalities

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, January 2011
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
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Title
From causes to solutions - insights from lay knowledge about health inequalities
Published in
BMC Public Health, January 2011
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-11-67
Pubmed ID
21281478
Authors

Christine Putland, Fran E Baum, Anna M Ziersch

Abstract

This paper reports on a qualitative study of lay knowledge about health inequalities and solutions to address them. Social determinants of health are responsible for a large proportion of health inequalities (unequal levels of health status) and inequities (unfair access to health services and resources) within and between countries. Despite an expanding evidence base supporting action on social determinants, understanding of the impact of these determinants is not widespread and political will appears to be lacking. A small but growing body of research has explored how ordinary people theorise health inequalities and the implications for taking action. The findings are variable, however, in terms of an emphasis on structure versus individual agency and the relationship between being 'at risk' and acceptance of social/structural explanations.

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Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 2 2%
Portugal 1 <1%
Switzerland 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Australia 1 <1%
Colombia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Peru 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Other 1 <1%
Unknown 91 89%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 18 18%
Student > Master 16 16%
Student > Bachelor 13 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 12 12%
Researcher 11 11%
Other 18 18%
Unknown 14 14%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 24 24%
Medicine and Dentistry 20 20%
Nursing and Health Professions 13 13%
Psychology 6 6%
Environmental Science 4 4%
Other 10 10%
Unknown 25 25%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 01 January 2017.
All research outputs
#5,043,021
of 20,629,552 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,024
of 13,455 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#58,707
of 273,282 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#8
of 11 outputs
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