Justice in Health

Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Collision of Contexts and Conscience
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Historical Pathways to Defining Health
1.2.1 Health as a Resource for Everyday Living
1.2.2 Health as a by-Product of Health Promotion
1.3 The Social Determinants of Health as Health
1.4 The Rights of Health
1.5 Health as a Right in Practice
1.6 Just Health (Justice in Health)
1.6.1 Understanding Justice in Health Within Structural Justice
1.6.2 Understanding Justice in Health Within Sovereignty
1.7 Culture and Health
1.8 Conclusion
1.9 Reflective Questions and Considerations
Appendices
Appendix A: Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, 1986
Health Promotion
Prerequisites for Health
Advocate
Enable
Mediate
Health Promotion Action Means
Build Healthy Public Policy
Create Supportive Environments
Strengthen Community Action
Develop Personal Skills
Reorient Health Services
Moving into the Future
Commitment to Health Promotion
Call for International Action
Appendix B: Jakarta Declaration on Leading Health Promotion into the Twenty-First Century
Health Promotion Is a Key Investment
Health Promotion Makes a Difference
New Responses Are Needed
Priorities for Health Promotion in the Twenty-First Century
Call for Action
Appendix C: Rio Political Declaration on Social Determinants of Health
Appendix D: Human Rights and Health (Fact Sheet)
Key Facts
Focus on Disadvantaged Populations
Violations of Human Rights in Health
Human Rights-Based Approaches
Core Principles of Human Rights
Accountability
Equality and Non-discrimination
Participation
Universal, Indivisible, and Interdependent
Core Elements of a Right to Health
Progressive Realization Using Maximum Available Resources
Non-retrogression
Core Components of the Right to Health
Availability
Accessibility
Acceptability
Quality
WHO Response
References
Chapter 2: Contextualizing and Situating Race and Health in the United States
2.1 History of Race and Health in the United States
2.1.1 Medical Abuses of Black Bodies
2.1.2 Segregation in Health Care
2.1.3 Underrepresentation of Providers of Color
2.2 Trajectory of Disparities
2.3 Reconciling the Past
2.4 Strategies for Combating Racism in Health Care
2.5 Conclusion
2.6 Reflective Questions and Considerations
References
Chapter 3: Frameworks for Framing Justice in Health
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Critical Theory
3.3 Critical Perspectives
3.3.1 Critical Race Theory
3.3.2 Postcolonial Theory
3.4 Social Justice
3.4.1 Social Justice and Nursing
3.5 Using Theory of Structuration to Ground Justice in Health
3.6 Structural Violence
3.6.1 Structural Racism
3.7 Structural Justice
3.7.1 Tenets of Structural Justice
3.7.2 The Critical Acknowledgment of Intersectionality and Oppression
3.7.3 Multidimensional Accessibility and Coordination
3.7.4 Buffering Vulnerability
3.7.5 Intentional Equalization Through Equity
3.7.6 Elevated Consciousness and Action
3.8 The Social Determinants of Health
3.9 Race as a Determinant of Health
3.9.1 Race, Power, and Privilege
3.10 Conclusion
3.11 Reflective Questions and Considerations
References
Chapter 4: Health Equity and Critical Health Issues
4.1 Connecting the Dots: Highlighting Issues at the Praxis of Health and Justice
4.2 Violence
4.2.1 Gun Violence
Interpersonal Violence
4.3 Structural Violence as Racism
4.3.1 Community Exemplar: The Equal Justice Initiative
4.4 The Social Determinants and Drivers of Health
4.4.1 Community Exemplar: Food Justice Network
4.4.2 Community Exemplar: The Russell Innovation Center for Entrepreneurs (RICE)
4.4.3 Community Exemplar: Communities United
4.5 Infusing Innovation
4.5.1 Social Innovation Exemplar: The MacArthur Foundation
4.6 Access to Care and Opportunity: Community of Caring
4.7 Conclusion: Revisiting the Story of Donell and Tonya
Appendices
Appendix A: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, n.d.)
Appendix B: Selected SDG Progress Updates: Exemplars in Evidence of the Need for Justice in Health
References
Chapter 5: Culture of Healing
5.1 Reimagination
5.2 Re-centering Our Care
5.3 Health as a System Without Walls
5.4 The Rationale for Justice in Health
5.4.1 Aligning Health Beliefs, Values, and Actions
5.4.2 Preparing Healthcare Providers
5.5 Trauma-Informed Approaches
5.5.1 The Four Assumptions of Trauma (SAMHSA, 2014, p. 9)
5.5.2 The Six Principles of Trauma-Informed Care (SAMHSA, 2014, p. 10)
5.6 Proposition
5.7 Reflective Questions and Considerations
References
Chapter 6: Leading Through Just Action
6.1 Community Engagement: So What and Who Cares?
6.2 Community Engagement as a Way of Knowing
6.3 Community Engagement as a Tool for Good Citizenship
6.3.1 Understanding the Role and Responsibility of Good Citizenship
6.4 Community Engagement as Ways of Being
6.5 Individual Ways of Being
6.5.1 Cultural Humility
6.6 Community Engagement as Ways of Doing
6.6.1 Community Leading the Way
6.7 Social and Civic Innovation
6.7.1 Being Strategic
6.8 Communication and Dissemination Strategies
6.9 Conclusion
6.10 Reflective Questions and Considerations
References
Chapter 7: Just Health
7.1 The Recap
7.2 Context Driving Care
7.3 Solutions: Justice in Health Action Plan
7.3.1 Structural Reimagination
7.3.2 Healthcare Providers
7.3.3 Provider Education
7.4 Conclusion and Reaffirmation
References
Appendix: Resource List by Topic
References
Index