Prison Health Care is Broken Under the Medicaid Inmate Exclusion Policy
Incarcerated individuals need health care, but punitive policies make securing access to care particularly difficult among this population.
health disparities
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Read more: Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed Correctional Sleep: Where Litigation Falls Short and Where Research, Policymaking are Needed
U.S. incarcerated populations have long dealt with chronic sleep deprivation, often with little to no reprieve.
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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 Can’t Be Blind Health Justice Can’t Be Blind
The legal profession has not only the ability, but also the responsibility, to address longstanding systemic harms.
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Read more: The Target of Health Justice The Target of Health Justice
Distributing vaccines equitably at the level of geographical units such as districts or nation-states may obfuscate injustices.
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Read more: The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism The Road to Systemic Change: Health Justice, Equity, and Anti-Racism
Placing community first and allowing them to drive solutions-based strategies is imperative to the health justice movement.
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Read more: How Community Organizations and Health Departments Can Partner to Advance Health Justice 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.
