Incorporating intersectionality theory into population health research methodology: Challenges and the potential to advance health equity

Intersectionality theory, developed to address the non-additivity of effects of sex/gender and race/ethnicity but extendable to other domains, allows for the potential to study health and disease at different intersections of identity, social position, processes of oppression or privilege, and policies or institutional practices. Intersectionality has the potential to enrich population health research through improved validity and greater attention to both heterogeneity of effects and causal processes producing health inequalities. Moreover, intersectional population health research may serve to both test and generate new theories. Nevertheless, its implementation within health research to date has been…

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  Canadian HIV Trials Network, Canadian Institutes of Health Research

  Award: MOP-130489
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  Canadian Institutes of Health Research