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: Financial Burden of COVID-19 Shifts from Insurance to Patients Financial Burden of COVID-19 Shifts from Insurance to Patients
Attempts to penalize those who become sick with COVID-19 are not out of line with other attempts to punish Americans for their perceived poor health.
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Read more: Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities Using Health Justice to Identify Inequities Experienced by Employees with Disabilities
A health justice approach would confront how ableism has influenced the development of reasonable accommodations law.
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Read more: Addressing School Discipline Disparities Through the Health Justice Framework 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: Digging Deep to Find Community-Based Health Justice Digging Deep to Find Community-Based Health Justice
Rather than simply recognizing the existence of social determinants of health, we must do the hard work to create and re-create systems.
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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.
