The integration of evidence from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in the field of health equity: a scoping review

Plamondon, Katrina; Bottorff, Joan L.; Graham, Ian D.

doi:10.1080/09581596.2018.1551613

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“…When Canadian Indigenous communities were asked about the challenges currently facing their communities, 82.6% stated that the most common issue was alcohol and drug abuse [ 22 ] and that traditional medicine itself is a critically important part of Indigenous health [ 23 ], including in the support of addictions. Due to the often upstream, structural, and socio-political [ 24 ] factors driving substance abuse in addition to other health ailments in Indigenous communities, advancing co-production of treatment options such as utilizing traditional medicine that already fits into an Indigenous paradigm may ensure four key steps to wellness occur: decolonization, mobilization, transformation, and healing [ 25 ].…”

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Traditional Indigenous medicine in North America: A scoping review

Redvers

Blondin²

2020

PLoS ONE

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Background Despite the documented continued use of traditional healing methods, modalities and its associated practitioners by Indigenous groups across North America, it is presumed that widespread knowledge is elusive amongst most Western trained health professionals and systems. This despite that the approximately 7.5 million Indigenous peoples who currently reside in Canada and the United States (US) are most often served by Western systems of medicine. A state of the literature is currently needed in this area to provide an accessible resource tool for medical practitioners, scholars, and communities to better understand Indigenous traditional medicine in the context of current clinical care delivery and future policy making. Methods A systematic search of multiple databases was performed utilizing an established scoping review framework. A consequent title and abstract review of articles published on traditional Indigenous medicine in the North American context was completed. Findings Of the 4,277 published studies identified, 249 met the inclusion criteria divided into the following five categorical themes: General traditional medicine, integration of traditional and Western medicine systems, ceremonial practice for healing, usage of traditional medicine, and traditional healer perspectives. Conclusions This scoping review was an attempt to catalogue the wide array of published research in the peer-reviewed and online grey literature on traditional Indigenous medicine in North America in order to provide an accessible database for medical practitioners, scholars, and communities to better inform practice, policymaking, and research in Indigenous communities.

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Traditional Indigenous medicine in North America: A scoping review

Redvers

Blondin²

2020

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“…Recognizing the sociopolitical, economic, and environmental causes of health inequities, this tool was inductively derived to support a series of research studies aimed at identifying promising practices for connecting knowledge with action for health equity [24]. This series began with a scoping review that involved assessing 330 health equity and knowledge translation-relevant publications for signals of integrating evidence about the causes of health inequities [13]. Several signals of integrating evidence were assessed, including citation of key sources of evidence, framing health inequities as having causes that are related to issues of power, and alignment with the World Health Organization's calls for action on health equity.…”

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“…Taking action for health equity is a basic obligation of humanity [1,2] that has become central to many global governance benchmarks for decades [3][4][5][6]. Though the commitment to health equity in these fields and among the health professions is clear [7][8][9], alignment between good equity intentions and action is a challenge [10][11][12][13]. This work regularly encounters the same power structures that are known to cause health inequities.…”

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A tool to assess alignment between knowledge and action for health equity

Plamondon

2020

BMC Public Health

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Advancing health equity is a central goal and ethical imperative in public and global health. Though the commitment to health equity in these fields and among the health professions is clear, alignment between good equity intentions and action remains a challenge. This work regularly encounters the same power structures that are known to cause health inequities. Despite consensus about causes, health inequities persist-illustrating an uncomfortable paradox: good intentions and good evidence do not necessarily lead to meaningful action. This article describes a theoretically informed, reflective tool for assessing alignment between knowledge and action for health equity. It is grounded in an assumption that progressively more productive action toward health inequities is justified and desired and an explicit acceptance of the evidence about the socioeconomic, political, and powerrelated root causes of health inequities. Intentionally simple, the tool presents six possible actions that describe ways in which health equity work could respond to causes of health inequities: discredit, distract, disregard, acknowledge, illuminate, or disrupt. The tool can be used to assess or inform any kind of health equity work, in different settings and at different levels of intervention. It is a practical resource against which practice, policy, or research can be held to account, encouraging steps toward equity-and evidence-informed action. It is meant to complement other tools and training resources to build capacity for allyship, de-colonization, and cultural safety in the field of health equity, ultimately contributing to growing awareness of how to advance meaningful health equity action.

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“…Contemporary health promotion seems to assume that with a disciplinary grounding in equity and social justice, a focus on structural racism automatically ensues. In practice, however, health behaviourism and individualist and neoliberal approaches continue to dominate (6,(10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15) In educational settings, the limited engagement of racialized faculty (18) contributes to the dearth of critical perspectives in health promotion. When racialized faculty are present, their naming of issues of racism and racial injustice are often seen as self-serving rather than as legitimate research agendas (18).…”

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What would it take for health promotion to take structural racism seriously?

Ndumbe-Eyoh¹

2020

Glob Health Promot

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The integration of evidence from the Commission on Social Determinants of Health in the field of health equity: a scoping review

Cited by 35 publications

References 58 publications

Traditional Indigenous medicine in North America: A scoping review

Traditional Indigenous medicine in North America: A scoping review

A tool to assess alignment between knowledge and action for health equity

What would it take for health promotion to take structural racism seriously?

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