Bridging ethics and epidemiology: Modelling ethical standards of health equity.

ABSTRACT: Health inequities are differences in health that are 'unjust'. Yet, despite competing ethical views about what counts as an 'unjust difference in health', theoretical insights from ethics have not been systematically integrated into epidemiological research. Using diabetes as an example, we explore the impact of adopting different ethical standards of health equity on population health outcomes. Specifically, we explore how the implementation of population-level weight-loss interventions using different ethical standards of equity impacts the intervention's implementation and resultant population health outcomes. We conducted a risk prediction modelling study using the nationally representative 2015-16 Canadian Community Health Survey (n = 75,044, 54% women). We used the Diabetes Populatio

SUBMITTER: Smith BT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10477740 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature