Chronic diseases and their inequalities amongst older adults are a significant public health challenge. Prevention and treatment of chronic diseases will benefit from insight into which population ...

'Intersectional stigma' is a concept that has emerged to characterize the convergence of multiple stigmatized identities within a person or group, and to address their joint effects on health and ...

Individuals who are members of multiple marginalized populations experience multiple axes of oppression and discrimination. Such intersectional discrimination can have interactive, negative effects on ...

What is intersectionality? This relatively new term has to do with each individual's unique experiences of discrimination and stigma, experiencing intersecting layers of oppression from different ...

In this essay, we focus on the potential and promise that intersectionality holds as a lens for studying the social determinants of health, reducing health disparities, and promoting health equity and ...

Darryl Sweeper, Jr., MA, Clinical Psychology Doctoral Student at William James College. https://www.linkedin.com/in/darryl-sweeper-jr-28a692b5 Source: Darryl Sweeper ...