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- Individuals from minoritized groups often face higher rates of various diseases due to their race, sexual identity, gender, or socioeconomic status.
- Understanding how biological processes influence these health disparities is crucial for developing effective solutions.
- The gut microbiome plays a significant role in health and is influenced by social factors, but it is underexplored in studies about health inequities; including it in health policy could enhance efforts to address these disparities.
Article Abstract
Individuals who are minoritized as a result of race, sexual identity, gender, or socioeconomic status experience a higher prevalence of many diseases. Understanding the biological processes that cause and maintain these socially driven health inequities is essential for addressing them. The gut microbiome is strongly shaped by host environments and affects host metabolic, immune, and neuroendocrine functions, making it an important pathway by which differences in experiences caused by social, political, and economic forces could contribute to health inequities. Nevertheless, few studies have directly integrated the gut microbiome into investigations of health inequities. Here, we argue that accounting for host-gut microbe interactions will improve understanding and management of health inequities, and that health policy must begin to consider the microbiome as an important pathway linking environments to population health.
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