Intersectionality and heart failure: what clinicians and researchers should know and do

Allana, Saleema, Ski, Chantal, Thompson, David, R. and Clark, Alexander, M. (2021) Intersectionality and heart failure: what clinicians and researchers should know and do. BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 14. ISSN 2045-435X

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Abstract

Purpose of review:
To review the application of intersectionality to heart failure. Intersectionality refers to the complex ways in which disenfranchisement and privilege intersect to reproduce and influence health and social outcomes.
Recent findings:
Intersectionality challenges approaches that focus on a single or small number of socio-demographic characteristics, such as sex or age. Instead, approaches should take account of the nature and effects of a full range of socio-demographic factors linked to privilege, including: race and ethnicity, social class, income, age, gender identity, disability, geography, and immigration status. Although credible and well established across many fields – there is limited recognition of the effects of intersectionality in research into heart disease, including heart failure. This deficiency is important because heart failure remains a common and burdensome syndrome that requires complex pharmacological and nonpharmacological care and collaboration between health professionals, patients and caregivers during and at the end-of-life.
Summary:
Approaches to heart failure clinical care should recognize more fully the nature and impact of patients’ intersectionality- and how multiple factors interact and compound to influence patients and their caregivers’ behaviours and health outcomes. Future research should explicate the ways in which multiple factors interact to influence health outcomes.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: heart failure, health, social outcomes
Subjects: R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Divisions: Faculty of Health & Science > Department of Health Studies
Depositing User: David Upson-Dale
Date Deposited: 26 Apr 2021 13:24
Last Modified: 28 Apr 2022 01:38
URI: https://oars.uos.ac.uk/id/eprint/1745

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