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Record W2113999705 · doi:10.1093/pubmed/fdq006

Market failure is bad for your health but social injustice is worse

2010· letter· en· W2113999705 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Alan Shiell

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Public Health · 2010
Typeletter
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHealth disparities and outcomes
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersCanadian Institutes of Health ResearchHealth CanadaInstitut pour la Recherche en Santé PubliquePublic Health Agency
KeywordsInjusticeSocial injusticePublic healthBusinessMarket failureEnvironmental healthMedicinePsychologyPolitical scienceEconomicsNursingSocial psychology

Abstract

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Smith and Petticrew succinctly outline the challenges we face in evaluating the impact of public health interventions tackling social determinants: challenges driven by multiple agencies with varying and sometimes conflicting interests, complex causal pathways and outcomes that extend beyond health. Looking ahead they call for a new evaluation approach, one that focuses on the whole before it focuses on any single part: a macro- rather than a micro-approach. They generously invite comment, which is valuable as their conclusions are important and bear repetition and re-emphasis. Some readers may take issue with points they make along the way. Does the contemporary agenda on socio-economic factors really represent a move away from infectious disease when prevalence of diseases such as tuberculosis remains one of the most blatant indicators of a breakdown in social and economic structure?1 Is the interest in social determinants really so recent or have the authors overlooked the efforts of Farr, or Virchow and others who followed who saw poverty and its associated social and political conditions as the root cause of ill health and political reform, economic development and education as legitimate instruments of public health?2

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.027
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: Commentary
Teacher disagreement score0.064
Threshold uncertainty score0.038

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.027
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.005
Scholarly communication0.0040.004
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0640.055
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0110.004

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.108
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.307 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2010
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