social inequality in health

A quick recap on the research poster
Your research poster must bear on a topic that relates to social inequalities in health (i.e. not just on a health issue generally, there must be a social component to it as well).
You have two options for your research poster:
Do it on your own research (honours thesis, RAship – make sure you get permission from your supervisor!)
Pick a primary research study that’s interesting to you (hint: you can check out recent issues from leading medical journals, PNAS, or any other specialised health journal for articles that pertain to inequalities)
So what’s the point of the annotated bibliography?
This assignment means to achieve a couple of goals: 1. get you started early!; 2. ensure good citation practices and academic integrity; 3. deepen your understanding of the processes at play by looking at the broader literature.
Using a standard citation format, write an annotated bibliography of at least 5 references pertaining to the topic of your poster.
As with the poster, there are two options:
If you are doing a poster on your own research, start this assignment with a brief paragraph about your research topic.
If you are doing a poster on a published primary study, that study must be the first in the list of 5. Make sure it’s clearly labeled as such! You probably want to spend a little more time summarising this study than the others, which is all going to be helpful anyway, because you can use that in your poster!
We will use this grading rubric to grade these bibliographies, so please ensure that your annotated bibliography meets the grading criteria.
FAQ
What citation format should I use?
I have no preference regarding the citation format (you may use any widely recognized format, such as APA, MLA, ASA, etc) as long as all your citations are consistently in one citation format (see this citation guide for assistance). A surefire way to achieve this would be to invest some time in learning how to use a reference management software. Personally, I really like Zotero because it’s free, cloud based, and has a nifty Firefox extension that automatically “grabs” references that you are looking at online and imports them in your database.
What am I going to do with these other references in the poster?
These additional references can provide some elements of context (why is this research important/novel), so you would cite them in your context section, or they can elaborate on the methods, or provide some elements that help interpret the results (pointing to limitations, need for future research or importance/impact of the study). The latter elements can be featured into the discussion section of the poster.
Must these references all be used in the poster?
No, you do not have to rely on these 5 references for your final poster (i.e. this can be exploratory work).
What do you mean by authority in the rubric?
What are the authors’ credentials? In primary studies, we kind of assume that if the authors are PhDs with faculty positions, it’s all good. And usually that’s the right assumption! But you can go a little further. Without going down the rabbit hole of listing all the authors’ affiliation, check out if they declared any conflict of interest (e.g. paid positions by pharma companies). See if the last author and/or corresponding author’s affiliation is still current.
And with other sources, such as websites or other forms of scientific communication (podcasts), what are the authors’ credentials, or the associations’ credentials. It’s ok sometimes to cite sources that may have a bias, as long as you are able to identify that bias and take it into consideration in your assessment of the validity of their findings.

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