Advancing Visual Health Communication Research to Improve Infodemic Response

Advancing health equity to improve health: the time is now.

Health inequities, or avoidable inequalities in health between groups of people, are increasingly recognized and tackled to improve public health. Canada's interest in health inequities goes back over 40 years, with the landmark 1974 Lalonde report, and continues with the 2011 Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health, which affirmed a global political commitment to implementin...

Advancing interdisciplinary health research: a synergism not to be denied.

I n this issue of CMAJ, a distinguished group of interdisciplinary health researchers, led by Judith Hall from the University of British Columbia, examines governmental, industrial and academic spheres to identify the cultural and structural characteristics that demand, promote or prevent Canadian interdisciplinary health research (IDHR). The group was commissioned by the then-nascent Canadian ...

Population health intervention research: advancing the field.

entire populations and to reduce health inequities.* It recognizes both health as a capacity or resource and the range of social, economic and environmental factors that contribute to it. A related articulation of health is “the capacity of people to adapt to, respond to, or control life’s challenges and changes”.1 In their seminal paper, Hawe and Potvin2 raise a cogent related question, “what ...

Advancing methods for US transgender health research.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW This article describes methodological challenges, gaps, and opportunities in US transgender health research. RECENT FINDINGS Lack of large prospective observational studies and intervention trials, limited data on risks and benefits of sex affirmation (e.g., hormones and surgical interventions), and inconsistent use of definitions across studies hinder evidence-based care fo...

HIV research: enhancing engagement to improve ethics