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This approach is essential to the pursuit of health equity because it provides a more complete and sound evidence base for population health policy.<\/jats:p>\n                            <\/jats:list-item>\n                            <jats:list-item>\n                              <jats:p>As this approach has gained traction, it has drifted from intersectionality's founding ideas about social power and justice.<\/jats:p>\n                            <\/jats:list-item>\n                            <jats:list-item>\n                              <jats:p>This Perspective develops a framework of justice for the field that consists of a multidimensional account of unjust power relations and an egalitarian standard to guide population health research and interventions.<\/jats:p>\n                            <\/jats:list-item>\n                          <\/jats:list>\n                        <\/jats:p>\n                      <\/jats:boxed-text>\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Context<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Research that examines multiple forms of marginalization simultaneously, referred to herein as quantitative intersectional analysis, is an important trend in population health science. This approach can identify otherwise hidden health inequalities and a fuller array of social drivers, creating a more complete evidence base for intervention. The practice of quantitative intersectional analysis, however, has strayed from intersectionality's founding ideas about interconnecting power relations and social justice. Some researchers have called for the rebuilding of those connections.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>This Perspective interprets and adapts key features of Nancy Fraser's critical theory with the aim of developing a framework of justice and illustrating its value as an ethical resource for quantitative intersectional analysis and population health policy. [Correction added on 21 October 2026, after first online publication: The word \u201cadapt\u201d was changed to \u201cadapts\u201d in this Methods section]<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Findings<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed framework is well suited to quantitative intersectional analysis in three respects. First, it's critical vantage point foregrounds precisely the kinds of power relations and social structures that are well\u2010documented drivers of health inequalities, including maldistribution in economic relations, misrecognition in cultural relations, and misrepresentation in political relations. Second, the framework is adaptable and can be extended, as recommended here, to include care relations. 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