The Communities of Health Justice
How might health justice engage health as a community good, and how might communities participate in creating the meanings of health justice?
Inequality
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Read more: Symposium Introduction: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy Symposium Introduction: Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy
This symposium explores how scholars, activists, communities, and health officials can use health justice frameworks to achieve health equity.
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Read more: America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19 America’s Underinsurance Crisis in the Age of COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the underinsurance crisis that has long kept millions of Americans on the precipice of financial disaster.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Global Classism
As the rich get richer, those of low socioeconomic status are doubly marginalized by the classism that characterizes the international pandemic response.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Western Ideas of Health
In concentrating on largely Western conceptions of health, the international pandemic response paid insufficient attention to realities in the Global South.
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Read more: A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism A Critical Analysis of the Eurocentric Response to COVID-19: Data Colonialism
In affording asymmetric protection to those in the Global North, the technified coronavirus response exemplifies digital colonialism.
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Read more: Obesity and Systemic Racism: A Teaching Guide for a New Paper Obesity and Systemic Racism: A Teaching Guide for a New Paper
Is obesity a manifestation of systemic racism? This teaching guide will stir thought and provoke discussion among students.
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Read more: The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums The Consequences of Public Health Law Vacuums
Even the best pandemic planning cannot account for elected representatives refusing to govern in the name of public health.
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Read more: The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic The Problem with Individual-Level Interventions to Curb the COVID-19 Pandemic
The failure to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States rests, in part, on the individualist nature of our public health responses.
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Read more: The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19 The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19
In recent months, public health guidance from the CDC has become a site of political reckoning.
