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There is growing awareness of the social and health inequities in chronic pain. People living with chronic pain often face stigma, discrimination, and multiple barriers to accessing health care. While chronic pain is over-represented among marginalized social groups, few studies focus specifically on issues such as racism, colonialism, stigma, ableism, exclusion, marginalization, poverty, and food insecurity and their impacts across the lifespan.
This Special Issue is dedicated to highlighting current and future contributions of critical scholarship related to social and health inequities in chronic pain across the lifespan. For this Special Issue, both original research and review articles will be considered. Specifically, we encourage submissions that (1) present empirical data on a topic related to structural and systemic inequities in pain research and management, including, but not limited to, racism, sexism, colonialism, poverty, or disability; (2) synthesize literature in this area; or (3) address theoretical and methodological issues related to critical scholarship on social and health inequities in chronic pain across the lifespan. We welcome manuscripts focused on various methodological approaches, including observational studies, clinical trials, qualitative research, population-based studies, and review articles.
