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An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework: Critical Reflections on a Methodology for Advancing Equity

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In the field of health, numerous frameworks have emerged that advance understandings of the differential impacts of health policies to produce inclusive and socially just health outcomes. This chapter presents the development of an important contribution to these efforts—an Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis (IBPA) Framework that provides guidance and direction for researchers, civil society, public health professionals and policy actors seeking to address the challenges of health inequities across diverse populations. Importantly, this chapter presents the application of the IBPA Framework in seven priority health-related policy case studies. The aim of this chapter is to inspire a range of policy actors to recognize the potential of IBPA to foreground the complex contexts of health and social problems, and ultimately to transform how policy analysis is undertaken.

This chapter has been reprinted from International Journal for Equity in Health. The original article is available open access online under the CC BY license (Hankivsky, O., Grace, D., Hunting, G., Giesbrecht, M., Fridkin, A., Rudrum, S., Clark, N. (2014). An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework: Critical Reflections on a Methodology for Advancing Equity. International Journal for Equity in Health, 13, 119. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-014-0119-x).

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    The IBPA Framework contains sub-questions relating to each overarching question to help guide analyses. Please see Hankivsky (2012) for more details.

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  1. School of Public Policy, Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Olena Hankivsky

  2. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Daniel Grace

  3. Institute for Intersectionality Research and Policy, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Gemma Hunting

  4. University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada

    Melissa Giesbrecht

  5. Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Alycia Fridkin

  6. Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada

    Sarah Rudrum

  7. British Columbia Centre on Substance Use, Vancouver, BC, Canada

    Olivier Ferlatte

  8. Faculty of Education and Social Work, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada

    Natalie Clark

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Hankivsky, O. et al. (2019). An Intersectionality-Based Policy Analysis Framework: Critical Reflections on a Methodology for Advancing Equity. In: Hankivsky, O., Jordan-Zachery, J.S. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Intersectionality in Public Policy. The Politics of Intersectionality. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98473-5_6

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