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Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity
Foot health and wellbeing in the UK are often overlooked in healthcare. Foot health outcomes are strongly interlinked to the social determinants of health, in that the way these determinants intersect can impact an individual’s vulnerability to foot pain and disorders. In this commentary we explore...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10601163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-023-00647-7 |
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author | Almeida, Joana Brocklehurst, Jonathan Sharples, Adrienne |
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description | Foot health and wellbeing in the UK are often overlooked in healthcare. Foot health outcomes are strongly interlinked to the social determinants of health, in that the way these determinants intersect can impact an individual’s vulnerability to foot pain and disorders. In this commentary we explore some social determinants that hinder individuals from improving their foot health behaviour and ultimately reducing foot pain and foot disorder vulnerability. We focus on socioeconomic status, gender, disability, age, culture and ethnicity, and footwear quality; we also highlight the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis on foot health inequities; rises in inflation have resulted in footcare becoming less affordable among vulnerable groups, like those with intellectual disabilities and chronic illness, older people, those living in rural and inner-city communities, and the ethnically and linguistically diverse population living in the UK. There is an urgent need to raise awareness of the social determinants of foot health, their intersectionality, and their impact on foot pain and disorder vulnerability. Despite the Black Report and both Marmot Reviews, little progress has been made in raising this awareness. It is recommended to widen the range of foot health interventions, by including it in GP consultations, developing cultural sensitivity within foot health services, creating more comprehensive educational foot health programmes, and developing a more sustainable footwear industry. |
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spelling | pubmed-106011632023-10-27 Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity Almeida, Joana Brocklehurst, Jonathan Sharples, Adrienne J Foot Ankle Res Commentary Foot health and wellbeing in the UK are often overlooked in healthcare. Foot health outcomes are strongly interlinked to the social determinants of health, in that the way these determinants intersect can impact an individual’s vulnerability to foot pain and disorders. In this commentary we explore some social determinants that hinder individuals from improving their foot health behaviour and ultimately reducing foot pain and foot disorder vulnerability. We focus on socioeconomic status, gender, disability, age, culture and ethnicity, and footwear quality; we also highlight the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic and the cost-of-living crisis on foot health inequities; rises in inflation have resulted in footcare becoming less affordable among vulnerable groups, like those with intellectual disabilities and chronic illness, older people, those living in rural and inner-city communities, and the ethnically and linguistically diverse population living in the UK. There is an urgent need to raise awareness of the social determinants of foot health, their intersectionality, and their impact on foot pain and disorder vulnerability. Despite the Black Report and both Marmot Reviews, little progress has been made in raising this awareness. It is recommended to widen the range of foot health interventions, by including it in GP consultations, developing cultural sensitivity within foot health services, creating more comprehensive educational foot health programmes, and developing a more sustainable footwear industry. BioMed Central 2023-10-26 /pmc/articles/PMC10601163/ /pubmed/37884971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-023-00647-7 Text en © The College of Podiatry and the Australasian Podiatry Council 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Almeida, Joana Brocklehurst, Jonathan Sharples, Adrienne Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title | Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title_full | Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title_fullStr | Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title_full_unstemmed | Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title_short | Intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
title_sort | intersectionality, vulnerability and foot health inequity |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10601163/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37884971 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13047-023-00647-7 |
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