TY - JOUR
T1 - Advancing the Study of Power
T2 - Opportunities and Priorities for Understanding Population Health Inequities
AU - Reynolds, Megan M.
AU - Galea, Sandro
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2025 American Public Health Association Inc.. All rights reserved.
PY - 2025/6
Y1 - 2025/6
N2 - In this essay, we provide an overview of how power has been conceptualized in public health and allied fields and describe recent advances connecting power to the topic of health inequities. To aid researchers in capitalizing on these historical and contemporary insights, we offer 6 concrete suggestions for empirical work. Systematic analyses involving these recommendations can help return public health scholars to foundational principles of the field and test the limits of power as an explanatory factor in population health inequities.
AB - In this essay, we provide an overview of how power has been conceptualized in public health and allied fields and describe recent advances connecting power to the topic of health inequities. To aid researchers in capitalizing on these historical and contemporary insights, we offer 6 concrete suggestions for empirical work. Systematic analyses involving these recommendations can help return public health scholars to foundational principles of the field and test the limits of power as an explanatory factor in population health inequities.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105005558547
U2 - 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015
DO - 10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015
M3 - Article
C2 - 40179346
AN - SCOPUS:105005558547
SN - 0090-0036
VL - 115
SP - 883
EP - 889
JO - American journal of public health
JF - American journal of public health
IS - 6
ER -