Selected publications:

Course 2022-2023

Benach, J., Alonso, F., Álvarez, D., Artazcoz, L., Cabanas, E., González, B., Matilla-Santander, N., Muntaner, C., Quintero, M.G., Zafra, R. & Muntané, F. (2023). Precariedad laboral y salud mental. Conocimientos y políticas. Sinopsis del Informe PRESME. Papeles de relaciones ecosociales y cambio global, 161, 127-142.

Cash-Gibson, L., Martinez-Herrera, E. & Benach, J. (2023). Why and how has the United Kingdom become a high producer of health inequalities research over the past 50 years? A realist explanatory case study. Health Res Policy Sys; 21(23). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-023-00968-w

Cash-Gibson, L., Muntané, F., Martínez-Herrera, J., Martínez-Herrera, J., & Benach, J. (2023). Towards a systemic understanding of sustainable wellbeing for all in cities: A conceptual framework. Cities, 133, 104143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2022.104143

Cuervo, L.G., Villamizar, C.J. Osorio, L., Ospina, M.B., Cuervo, D., Cuervo, D., Bula, M.O., Zapata, P., Owens, N., Hatcher-Roberts, J., Martin, E.A., Piquero, F., Pinilla, L.F., Martinez-Herrera, E. & Jaramillo, C. (2023). Assessing Equity in Accessibility to Haemodialysis Services by Automobile in Cali, Colombia: Cross-sectional Analyses Using Publicly Available Data. SSRN. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4299562

Muntaner, C., & Benach, J. (2023). Why Social (Political, Economic, Cultural, Ecological) Determinants of Health? Part 1: Background of a Contested Construct. International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services, 53(2), 117-121. doi:10.1177/27551938231152996

Salas Quijada, C., López-Contreras, N., López-Jiménez, T., Medina-Perucha, L., León-Gómez, B. B., Peralta, A., ... Jacques-Aviñó, C. (2023). Social Inequalities in Mental Health and Self-Perceived Health in the First Wave of COVID-19 Lockdown in Latin America and Spain: Results of an Online Observational Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(9), 5722. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20095722

Sheehan, M. (2023). Urban agrobiodiversity, health and city climate adaptation plans. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 101, 121–129. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.2471/BLT.22.288857

Benach, J., & Muntaner, C. (2022). A new Journal for a new era. International Journal of Health Services, 52(4), 421-422.

Beseran, E., Pericàs, J. M., Cash-Gibson, L., Ventura-Cots, M., Porter, K. M. P., & Benach, J. (2022). Deaths of Despair: A Scoping Review on the Social Determinants of Drug Overdose, Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and Suicide. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(19), 12395. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912395

Cuervo, L. G., Martínez-Herrera, E., Cuervo, D., & Jaramillo, C. (2022). Improving equity using dynamic geographic accessibility data for urban health services planning. Gaceta Sanitaria, 36(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gaceta.2022.05.001

Lemkow-Tovías, G., Lemkow, L., Cash-Gibson, L., Teixidó-Compañó, E., & Benach, J. (2022). Impact of COVID-19 inequalities on children: An intersectional analysis. Sociology of Health & Illness, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13557 

Singh, G., & Uthayakumar-Cumarasamy, A. (2022). Cost of living crisis: a UK crisis with global implications – A call to action for paediatricians. BMJ Paediatrics Open;6:e001631. doi: 10.1136/bmjpo-2022-001631 

Tumas, N., Rodríguez-López, S., Mazariegos, M., Ortigoza, A., Anza-Ramírez, C., Pérez-Ferrer, C., Moore, K., Yamada, G., Carvalho de Menezes, M., Lucía-Sarmiento, O., Pericàs, J. M., Belvis, F., Lazo, M., & Benach, J. (2022). Are women’s empowerment and income inequality associated with excess weight in Latin American cities? J Urban Health, 99, 1091–1103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11524-022-00689-5

Ventura-Cots, M., Bataller, R., Lazarus, J. V., Benach, J., & Pericàs, J. M. (2022). Applying an equity lens to liver health and research in Europe. Journal of Hepatology, 77(6), 1699-1710. doi: 10.1016/j.jhep.2022.07.021

Beseran, E., Pericàs, J., Cash-Gibson, L., Ventura-Cots, M., Porter, K., & Benach, J. (2022). Deaths of Despair: A Scoping Review on the Social Determinants of Drug Overdose, Alcohol-Related Liver Disease and Suicide. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19, 12395. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912395

O’Callaghan-Gordo, C., Moreno, A., Bosque-Prous, M., Castro-Sanchez, E., Dadvand, P., Guzmán, C. A. F., García-Juanatey, A., Gascon, M., Grau, O., Jordana, J., Zografos, C., & Lowe, R. (2022). Responding to the need of postgraduate education for Planetary Health: Development of an online Master’s Degree. Frontiers in Public Health, 10, 969065. 

 

Course 2021-2022

Cash-Gibson, L., Martinez-Herrera, E., Escrig-Pinol, A. & Benach, J. (2022): Why and how Barcelona has become a health inequalities research hub? A realist explanatory case study, Journal of Critical Realism, 22(1). DOI: 10.1080/14767430.2022.2095121

Benach J, Cash-Gibson L, Rojas-Gualdrón DF, Padilla-Pozo Á, Fernández-Gracia J, Eguíluz VM, et al. (2022) Inequalities in COVID-19 inequalities research: Who had the capacity to respond? PLoS ONE, 17(5): e0266132. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266132 

Benach, J., Padilla-Pozo, A., Martínez, E., Molina, J. C., Gutiérrez, M., Pericàs, J. M., Gutiérrez-Zamora Navarro, M., & Zografos, C. (2022). What do we know about the impact of economic recessions on mortality inequalities? A critical review. Social Science & Medicine, 296, 114733.

Benach, J., Zografos, C., Cash-Gibson, L., Martínez-Herrera, E. & Pericàs, J.M (2021). The case for planetary health prevention. J Epidemiol Community Health, 76 (2), 105-106. doi:10.1136/jech-2021-217988

Cash-Gibson, L., Martinez-Herrera, E., & Benach, J. (2021). What key conditions and mechanisms generate health inequalities research in different settings? Study protocol for two realist explanatory case studies. Evaluation and Program Planning, 89, 101986. doi: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2021.101986.

Cash-Gibson, L., Pericàs, J. M., Martinez-Herrera, E., & Benach, J. (2021). Health Inequalities in the Time of COVID-19: The Globally Reinforcing Need to Strengthen Health Inequalities Research Capacities. International Journal of Health Services, 51(3). https://doi.org/10.1177/0020731421993939.

Llop-Girones, A., Santilla-Garcia, A., Cash-Gibson, L., Benach, J., & Zabalegui, A. (2021). COVID-19 and the global need for knowledge on nurses’ health. International Nursing Review, 69(2), 196-200. https://doi.org/10.1111/inr.12722.

Navarro, V. (2021). What is Happening in the United States? How Social Classes Influence the Political Life of the Country and its Health and Quality of Life. International Journal of Health Services, 51(2), 125-134.

Benach, J., & Pericàs, J. M. (2022). La segregación en salud y los sistemas sanitarios. In I. Blanco & R. Gomà (Coords.), Vidas segregadas. Reconstruir fraternidad (pp. 140-154). Tirant lo Blanch.

Martínez Herrera, E., Hernández Carmona, D., Benach, J., Corburn, J., & Lopera Velásquez, V. (2021). Modelo de gestión territorial de la salud basado en Comunidad: elementos para la construcción en comunes y corregimientos de Medellín, Colombia. In D. Hernández Carmona & E. Martínez Herrera (Coords.), Vínculos para la salud en Medellín (pp. 19-38).

Benach, J. (Coord.), Belvis, F. X., Guitérrez Zamora, M., Martell, I. G., Julià, M., Padrosa, E., & Galí, I. (2021). Trajectòries laborals precàries i salut en la joventut catalana. Generalitat de Catalunya. Departament de Treball, Afers Socials i Famílies.

Benach, J., Martínez-Herrera, E., Grothe, S., Gutiérrez-Zamora Navarro, M., & Caroz, J. M. (2021). Luchas sociales para desmercantilizar la sanidad en Cataluña y España: ¿Qué lecciones podemos aprender? Medicus Mundi & Quepo.

Pericàs, J. M., & Benach, J. (2021). Salut pública, sanitat, desigualtats socials i drets humans. Causes, efectes i aprenentatges al fil de la pandèmia. In Gutiérrez, E., & Custodio, C. (Coords.), Béns comuns i necessitats col·lectives (pp. 294-308). DESC.

Agustí, C., Font-Casaseca, N., Belvis, F., Julià, M., Vives, N., Montoliu, A., Pericàs, J. M., Casabona, J., & Benach, J. (2020). The role of socio-demographic determinants in the geo-spatial distribution of newly diagnosed HIV infections in small areas of Catalonia (Spain). BMC Public Health, 20(1), 1533. doi:10.1186/s12889-020-09603-7.

Alzate-Angel, J., Arroyave, A., Gómez, A., Pericàs, J., & Benach, J. (2020). What have we researched about HIV infection in Colombia?. Infectio, 24(1), 35-41.

Benach, J., & Pericàs, J. M. (2020). La segregación en salud y sistemas sanitarios. In I. Blanco & R. Gomà (Coords.), Vidas segregades. (Re)construir fraternidad.

Benach, J. (2021). We Must Take Advantage of This Pandemic to Make a Radical Social Change: The Coronavirus as a Global Health, Inequality, and Eco-Social Problem. International Journal of Health Services, 51(1), 50-54. doi: 10.1177/0020731420946594.

Benach, J. (2020). La salud es política. Un planeta enfermo de desigualdades. Barcelona: Icaria. 

Cash-Gibson, L., Harris, M., Guerra, G. & Benach, J. (2020). A novel conceptual model and heuristic tool to strengthen understanding and capacities for health inequalities research. Health Res Policy Sys, 18(42). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12961-020-00559-z 

Martinez-Herrera, E., Hernandez, D., & Benach, J. (2020). Advances in an integrated evaluation of Community health in Medellín (Colombia) during 2014-2019. European Journal of Public Health, 30(Supplement_5), ckaa166.159. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/ckaa166.159.

Peralta, A., Benach, J., Espinel-Flores, V., Gotsens, M., Borrell, C., & Marí-Dell’Olmo, M. (2020). Studying geographic inequalities in mortality due to specific causes in contexts with deficient data sources: Lessons from Ecuador. Epidemiology, 31(2), 290-300.

Peralta, A., Benach, J., Borrell, C., et al. (2019). Evaluation of the mortality registry in Ecuador (2001-2013) – Social and geographical inequalities in completeness and quality. Population Health Metrics, 17, 3.

Vives, A., Benmarhnia, T., González, F., & Benach, J. (2020). The importance of using a multi-dimensional scale to capture the various impacts of precarious employment on health: Results from a national survey of Chilean workers. PLoS ONE, 15(9), e0238401. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0238401

Navarro, V. & Muntaner, C. (2020). Political And Economic Determinants of Population Health and Well-Being: Controversies and Developments. Routledge. 

Navarro, V., Pazos, M., Carrión, P., Castellanos, C., Martínez, R.M., Muntané, F. & Sastre, M. (2020). El cuarto pilar del Estado del bienestar. Una propuesta para cubrir necesidades esenciales de cuidado, crear empleo y avanzar hacia la igualdad de género (Report). Grupo de trabajo de políticas sociales y sistema de cuidados. Comisión para la Reconstrucción Social y Económica del Congreso de los Diputados. 

Peralta, A., Benach, J., Espinel-Flores, V., Gotsens, M., Borrell, C., & Marí-Dell’Olmo, M. (2020). Studying geographic inequalities in mortality due to specific causes in contexts with deficient data sources: Lessons from Ecuador. Epidemiology, 31(2), 290-300.

Pericàs, J.M. & Benach, J. (2020). Salut pública, sanitat, desigualtats socials i drets humans. Causes, efectes i aprenentatges al fil de la pandèmia. En Gutiérrez, E. & Custodio, C. (coords.), Béns comuns i necessitats col·lectives (páginas 294-308). DESC. 

Cash-Gibson, L., & Benach, J. (2019). Health inequalities research capacity in the UK: Preliminary findings from a realist explanatory case study. The Lancet, 394, S29. doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(19)32826-0

Llop-Gironés, A., Cash-Gibson, L., Chicumbe, S., et al. (2019). Health equity monitoring is essential in public health: Lessons from Mozambique. Global Health, 15(67). doi:10.1186/s12992-019-0508-4

Cash-Gibson, L., Rojas-Gualdrón, D. F., Pericàs, J. M., & Benach, J. (2018). Inequalities in global health inequalities research: A 50-year bibliometric analysis (1966-2015). PLoS One, 13, e0191901. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0191901