A brief overview of ISA for addressing
health equity
Public health practitioners have come to widen their understanding
of health to include areas that are indirectly related to biophysical
wellness and therefore fall outside of a more traditional
biomedical approach [6,7]. Pursuing an understanding of what
puts people at ‘risk of risk’ [8], public health practice has broadened
in scope to focus on ‘causes of causes’ by addressing the
root of health inequities [9]. Accordingly, the so-called ‘social
determinants of health’ have moved to the forefront of the
research agenda as advanced by the population health movement
of the early 1990s [10]. While social determinants hold strong