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Advancing the Study of Power: Opportunities and Priorities for Understanding Population Health Inequities
Megan M Reynolds1, Sandro Galea1
1Megan M. Reynolds is with the Department of Sociology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Sandro Galea is with the School of Public Health, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO.
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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. (Am J Public Health. 2025;115(6):883-889. https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2025.308015).
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