Addressing School Discipline Disparities Through the Health Justice Framework
Researchers and advocates have long-documented the disparate punishment and policing of BIPOC students compared to their white peers.
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Read more: Congress Should Act to Fund Medical-Legal Partnerships Congress Should Act to Fund Medical-Legal Partnerships
We encourage Congress to pass recently introduced legislation that allocates funding to the development of Medical-Legal Partnerships.
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Read more: Health Justice, Structural Change, and Medical-Legal Partnerships Health Justice, Structural Change, and Medical-Legal Partnerships
To us, health justice means change. Not cosmetic or peripheral change, but wide-scale, systemic change.
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Read more: There’s No Justice Without Health Justice There’s No Justice Without Health Justice
Well-being and ill-being can be measured in many ways, but health is a fundamental part of the picture and is inextricably intertwined with justice.
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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: Equipping the Next Generation of Health Justice Leaders Equipping the Next Generation of Health Justice Leaders
We can pave the way for our students to lead hospitals, courthouses, and statehouses in a collaborative pursuit of health justice.
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Read more: Another Blow to Tort Reform in Florida: Statute Allowing Defendants in Medical Malpractice Suits to Hold Ex Parte Interviews with the Aggrieved Patient’s Care Providers Declared Unconstitutional Another Blow to Tort Reform in Florida: Statute Allowing Defendants in Medical Malpractice Suits to Hold Ex Parte Interviews with the Aggrieved Patient’s Care Providers Declared Unconstitutional
By Alex Stein STEIN on Medical Malpractice has recently published a survey of noteworthy court decisions in the field for 2017. This survey includes an important decision, Weaver v. Myers, 229 So.3d 1118 (Fla. 2017), that voided Florida statute allowing defendants in medical malpractice suits to hold ex parte interviews with the aggrieved patient’s care providers….
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Read more: Generics, Bioequivalence, and Justice Generics, Bioequivalence, and Justice
By Matthew L Baum I have written previously on this blog about morally modifying technologies (here and here), which by definition work no better than existing technologies but enable the side-stepping of a moral tension associated with the first technology. Generic pharmaceuticals are a particularly well-known and widely endorsed form of morally modifying technology: they have…
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Read more: Uncertain Future for the Same-Specialty Law in Florida Uncertain Future for the Same-Specialty Law in Florida
By Alex Stein Florida statute, § 766.102(12) (2012), lays down a strict same-specialty requirement for expert witnesses supporting medical malpractice allegations. Specifically, it provides that “If a physician licensed under chapter 458 or chapter 459 or a dentist licensed under chapter 466 is the party against whom, or on whose behalf, expert testimony about the prevailing…