The WHO's social determinants of health framework maps how governance, education, employment, healthcare, and cultural norms produce health inequalities. It has been refined over seventeen years by hundreds of researchers across dozens of countries.

It has never structurally incorporated sexuality.

This episode asks why — and finds that the answer is not neglect but a structural limitation. Sexuality doesn't fit the framework the way the framework expects its variables to fit. It cannot sit in one box. It organizes all the boxes.

Part I of a seven-part series. Written and narrated by Omer Bangash.

Read the full written version with references: https://obangash.substack.com/p/regime-beneath-the-regime-sexuality

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