This aim is addressed as follows:

• Utilizing cross-country comparisons to understand structural factors impacting health

• Highlighting inequalities faced by equity-deserving social groups (e.g., victimized and victimizing youth, youth living in low socioeconomic position, living in single-parent households, and non-majority groups including gender minorities, racial groups, visible minorities)

• Investigating the nature and intersection of social inequalities among populations regionally and globally

• Studying the relationship between intersectional social groupings and health (physical, mental, social, emotional, sexual, spiritual)

• Using person-centered approaches to closely reflect lived experience

• Identifying determinants that narrow health inequality gaps using equitable and inclusive approaches