It is time to take a broader equity lens to highlight health inequalities in people with pain
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2025
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Karran, E.L.
Cashin, A.G.
Barker, T.
Boyd, M.A.
Chiarotto, A.
Mohabir, V.
Petkovic, J.
Sharma, S.
Tugwell, P.
Moseley, G.L.
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British Journal of Anaesthesia, 2025; 134(1):235-237
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Emma L. Karran, Aidan G. Cashin, Trevor Barker, Mark A. Boyd, Alessandro Chiarotto, Vina Mohabir, Jennifer Petkovic, Saurab Sharma, Peter Tugwell, G. Lorimer Moseley
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Health equity means that ‘everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible’. Although there is widespread recognition that this aspiration must drive efforts to improve the health of individuals and communities, leading medical journals have recently drawn attention to ongoing shortcomings in health research. Typically, the characteristics of participants involved in research do not represent the broad range of sociodemographic characteristics of patients encountered in everyday practice, and under-representation of people who experience disadvantage and marginalisation is commonplace. It is widely recognised that a major contributor to health inequities are the social determinants of health, that is, ‘the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, and the fundamental drivers of these conditions: the distribution of power; money; and resources’. Developing a contemporary understanding of how the social determinants of health relate to pain experiences and outcomes appears timely and important, and we consider it to be a crucial step towards improving health equity for people with pain.
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