How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can Partner to Advance Health Justice
During the pandemic, community-based organizations filled many gaps by delivering services that local governments could not provide.
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Read more: Building Power Across Movements for Health Justice Building Power Across Movements for Health Justice
It’s time to re-envision and invest in a new public health infrastructure, one that is equipped and authorized to respond to the global crises we’re facing.
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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: 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.
