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: The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice The Feminist Political Economy of Health Justice
Capitalism creates inequities and exacerbates injustice. Health justice entails pursuing alternatives. Feminist political economy offers some direction.
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Read more: Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice Health Justice Meets Reproductive Justice
When people cannot obtain abortion care, they incur social, financial, and physical costs that are difficult to bear.
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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: Saving Lives and Decreasing Costs: The Economic Case for Health Justice Saving Lives and Decreasing Costs: The Economic Case for Health Justice
Making the economic case for health justice, and noting how it is inextricably linked to the moral case, is crucial.
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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.
