Equitable and Ethical Access to Care: The Case of Pre-Hospital Blood Administration
The pre-hospital administration of blood products should be a priority for policy makers and regulatory bodies in Massachusetts.
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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: Health Justice as the Lodestar of Incremental Health Reform Health Justice as the Lodestar of Incremental Health Reform
Health justice as a lodestar holds focus on the broader endeavor of protecting and promoting human health through tempestuous politics.
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Read more: Safer at Home? Yes, but Not According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court Safer at Home? Yes, but Not According to the Wisconsin Supreme Court
In Wisconsin, pushback against stay-at-home orders culminated in the state Supreme Court’s decision on May 13 to reverse the state’s “Safer at Home” policy.
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Read more: Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part II) Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part II)
By: Daniel Aaron Just last month, Professor Christopher T. Robertson, at the University of Arizona College of Law, released his new book about health care, entitled Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It. Part II of this book review offers an analytical discussion of “cost exposure,” the main…
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Read more: Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part I) Why Our Health Care Is Incomplete: Review of “Exposed” (Part I)
By Daniel Aaron Just last month, Professor Christopher T. Robertson, at the University of Arizona College of Law, released his new book about health care, entitled Exposed: Why Our Health Insurance Is Incomplete and What Can Be Done About It. This book review will offer an analytical discussion of “cost exposure,” the main subject of…
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Read more: “There are millions of people who are living below subsistence”: Black Panther Party Founder Bobby Seale as Public Health Activist “There are millions of people who are living below subsistence”: Black Panther Party Founder Bobby Seale as Public Health Activist
By Wendy S. Salkin Picture it: Tuesday, February 14, 2017. It is four o’clock and the Tsai Auditorium of the Center for Government and International Studies is packed to the gills, abuzz with energy. Harvard faculty, students, staff, and community members fill every seat, line the steps, and stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the back. They are turning…
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Read more: The Precision Medicine Initiative and Access The Precision Medicine Initiative and Access
By Leslie Francis Persistent differences in participation in clinical trials by race and ethnicity are well known; for example, the 2015 Report of the Working Group on Precision Medicine (PMI) relies on statistics that only 5% of clinical trial participants are African-American and only 1% are Hispanic. A recently-launched website of the FDA, “Drug Trials…