Why We Need a Transformative Right-to-Health Pandemic Treaty Now
Health systems that lack universality and inclusivity will always fall short on disease surveillance, detection, and response.
Medical Quality
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Read more: Symposium Conclusion: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law & Policy Symposium Conclusion: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law & Policy
Collectively with these contributors, we aim to define the contours of the health justice movement and debates within it.
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Read more: Health Justice is Within Our Reach Health Justice is Within Our Reach
I grew up in the South Bronx, insulated from the absence of health justice until the fourth grade, when I began attending private school.
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Read more: LGBTQ Health Equity and Health Justice LGBTQ Health Equity and Health Justice
The health justice framework, with its emphasis on systems-level transformation, must guide work in the area of LGBTQ health equity.
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Read more: Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency Disclosing Pain: The Case for Greater Transparency
Clinicians across medical settings commonly euphemize or understate pain, which has concerning implications for patient trust, consent, and care quality.
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Read more: ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology ‘I Can’t Breathe’: Racism in Medical Technology
Our ability to breathe is shaped by the laws and politics that govern the use of technologies, and that validate racialized assumptions about people.
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Read more: Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career Shortening Medical Training Would Help Trainees Balance Family and Career
The length of medical training unnecessarily compromises trainees’ ability to balance their careers with starting families.
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Read more: Truth and Reconciliation in Health Care: Addressing Medical Racism using a Health Justice Framework Truth and Reconciliation in Health Care: Addressing Medical Racism using a Health Justice Framework
Healing processes can operationalize the three components of the health justice framework to address the trauma of medical racism.
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Read more: Symposium Introduction: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy Symposium Introduction: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy
This symposium explores how scholars, activists, communities, and health officials can use health justice frameworks to achieve health equity.
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Read more: The ‘Model Minority’ Myth Puts Asian Americans’ Health at Risk The ‘Model Minority’ Myth Puts Asian Americans’ Health at Risk
The model minority myth is hiding massive health disparities among the large and varying Asian community in the U.S.
