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@article{Cash-Gibson:2020:10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z,
author = {Cash-Gibson, L and Harris, M and Guerra, G and Benach, J},
doi = {10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z},
journal = {Health Research Policy and Systems},
pages = {1--12},
title = {A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z},
volume = {18},
year = {2020}
}

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AB  - BackgroundDespite increasing evidence on health inequalities over the past decades, further efforts to strengthen capacities to produce research on this topic are still urgently needed to inform effective interventions aiming to address these inequalities. To strengthen these research capacities, an initial comprehensive understanding of the health inequalities research production process is vital. However, most existing research and models are focused on understanding the relationship between health inequalities research and policy, with less focus on the health inequalities research production process itself. Existing conceptual frameworks provide valuable, yet limited, advancements on this topic; for example, they lack the capacity to comprehensively explain the health (and more specifically the health inequalities) research production process at the local level, including the potential pathways, components and determinants as well as the dynamics that might be involved. This therefore reduces their ability to be empirically tested and to provide practical guidance on how to strengthen the health inequalities research process and research capacities in different settings. Several scholars have also highlighted the need for further understanding and guidance in this area to inform effective action.MethodsThrough a critical review, we developed a novel conceptual model that integrates the social determinants of health and political economy perspectives to provide a comprehensive understanding of how health inequalities research and the related research capacities are likely to be produced (or inhibited) at local level.ResultsOur model represents a global hypothesis on the fundamental processes involved, and can serve as a heuristic tool to guide local level assessments of the determinants, dynamics and relations that might be relevant to better understand the health inequalities research production process and the related research capacities.ConclusionsThis type of
AU  - Cash-Gibson,L
AU  - Harris,M
AU  - Guerra,G
AU  - Benach,J
DO  - 10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z
EP  - 12
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 1478-4505
SP  - 1
TI  - A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research
T2  - Health Research Policy and Systems
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z
UR  - https://health-policy-systems.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/78987
VL  - 18
ER  -

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