Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of Health Inequalities: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications

By J. Phelan, Bruce G. Link, P. Tehranifar. Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 2010

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Exploring inequities in child welfare and child protection services: Explaining the ‘inverse intervention law’ (2015, background): “Detrimental consequences of stress, such as excessive alcohol or substance use, exposure to intimate partner violence or poor mental health, can be seen as secondary to fundamental causes (Author’s own, 2015a; Phelan et al., 2010).”
Systemic racism and U.S. health care. (2014, background): “” Link and Phelan (1995) and Phelan, Link, and Tehranifar (2010) accent racial disparities in health, but do not examine how racial and socioeconomic status are closely interwoven.”
The influence of education on health: an empirical assessment of OECD countries for the period 1995–2015 (2020, background): “Abbreviations FCT: Fundamental Cause Theory; HCT: Human Capital Theory; NEET: Not in Employment, Education, or Training; OECD: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; SES: Socio-economic status Acknowledgements Not applicable.”
Inequalities in child welfare intervention rates: the intersection of deprivation and identity (2016, positive): “In turn, we suggest, this has contributed to a relative neglect in research, policy and practice of focus on fundamental causes (Phelan et al. 2010) of inequalities in access to child welfare services, in patterns of child welfare interventions and in outcomes, in favour of a ‘narrowed .”
The Disproportionate Impact of COVID-19 on Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the United States (2020, methodology): “This approach to understanding health disparities is derived from concepts in fundamental causes of disease (FCD) theory, which was developed to explain the persistent relationship between socioeconomic status and mortality.(12) The literature on disparities in COVID-19 should recognize the role of ”
Stigma as a Fundamental Cause of Population Health Inequalities (2013, positive): “Inequality persists because fundamental causes have certain characteristics.(11,12) First, a fundamental social cause influences multiple disease outcomes through multiple risk factors among a substantial number of people.”
Good intentions are not enough: how informatics interventions can worsen inequality (2018, positive): “Health disparities are thought to emerge from health system disparities(3) and socioeconomic factors that create differential access to “flexible resources” including money, status, power, freedom, knowledge, and social capital.(4,5) Such flexible resources can be used to reduce negative health expo”
The persistence of health inequalities in modern welfare states: the explanation of a paradox. (2012, background): “The association between socioeconomic status and health is reproduced over time via the replacement of intervening mechanisms, and as opportunities for avoiding disease continue to expand so will health inequalities continue to exist (Link & Phelan, 1995; Phelan et al., 2004, 2010).”