INTRODUCTION: What is Health Justice?

Wiley, Lindsay F.; Yearby, Ruqaiijah; Clark, Brietta R.; Mohapatra, Seema

doi:10.1017/jme.2023.2

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“…The MLP model ultimately aims to advance health justice — addressing the oppressive societal structures, including racism, poverty, and discrimination, that lead to health inequity. 34 …”

Section: Ethical and Intersectionality Considerations For Mlps In Hos...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The MLP model ultimately aims to advance health justice -addressing the oppressive societal structures, including racism, poverty, and discrimination, that lead to health inequity. 34 Least Restrictive Alternatives Thirty-nine states' statutes specifically mandate that guardianship be granted only where it is the "least restrictive" means to address an incapacitated person's needs. With or without this statutory requirement, a core obligation of the MLP should be to critically evaluate whether guardianship or institutional care is necessary.…”

Section: Professional Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

Garg,

Oliva,

et al. 2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Health systems are integrating medical-legal partnerships (MLPs) into clinical care and increasingly center “complex care” patients. These patients have intersecting medical and social needs and often face systemic inequities that exacerbate their chronic health conditions. This paper describes a role for MLPs in hospital quality initiatives; examines the ethics of MLPs assisting with guardianship and institutionalization of hospital patients including marginalized groups; and advocates for MLP interventions designed to address intersectional and ethical concerns.

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“…The MLP model ultimately aims to advance health justice — addressing the oppressive societal structures, including racism, poverty, and discrimination, that lead to health inequity. 34 …”

Section: Ethical and Intersectionality Considerations For Mlps In Hos...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Professional Ethicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

Garg,

Oliva,

et al. 2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…In other words, the language of “EDI” in institutional settings should not be conflated with radical modes of anti-racist organizing, which use liberatory, anti-oppressive praxes to enable the complete transformation of systems not originally designed for those at the margins [ 17 ]. While this research aims to equip public health institutions with a greater evidence base of practices to address ABR, it ultimately aims to encourage broad implementation of health justice action, which as a movement seeks to recognize and build power of individuals and communities affected by health inequities and spur transformational change of systems that drive those inequities [ 18 ]. This transformational change transcends institutional EDI objectives that are constrained by corporate governance frameworks premised on various forms of exclusion or interests.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Addressing anti-Black racism within public health in North America: a scoping review

Rakotovao,

Simeoni,

Bennett-AbuAyyash

et al. 2024

Int J Equity Health

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Objectives The syndemic that is COVID-19 and the disproportionate policing of Black communities have recently generated mass social consciousness of the anti-Black racism (ABR) pervading health, social, and cultural institutions. However, little is known about the implementation of public health measures addressing ABR in an evolving pandemic context. The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of public health initiatives undertaken to address ABR across North American jurisdictions between December 2019 and June 2022. Methods A search for public health initiatives was conducted in June 2021 across MEDLINE, Ovid Embase, EBSChost, CINAHL, SocINDEX, and Google.ca. Included initiatives were those focussing on Black, African diasporic, or African American communities in the North American context. Community-led action, as well as initiatives in primary healthcare care, academic journals, and those broadly focused on racialized communities, were excluded from this review. Synthesis Seventy-five articles were included in this review, suggesting that ABR emerged as a public health priority. Strategies and action plans to address structural ABR were the most common types of initiatives observed (n = 21), followed by programs or interventions (n = 16), budget allocations or investments (n = 8), task forces (n = 7), guidance and recommendations for organizational capacity (n = 8), action-oriented declarations of ABR as a public health crisis (n = 8), and legislation and mandates (n = 7). Initiatives were largely cross-cutting of two or more socioeconomic themes (n = 23), while organizational change was also common (n = 16). Gaps in the current literature include a lack of community participation and outcome measurement for actions identified, which limit institutional accountability to communities of interest. Conclusion This research provides insights on public health accountability to social justice. This research outlines activities in upstream interventions, organizational transformation, and resource allocation in shaping anti-racist change, and require evaluation and input from those whom initiatives are intended to serve.

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“… 4 As a scholarly framework and a movement, health justice aims to leverage law and policy to dismantle systems of subordination that drive health inequities and build the power of individuals and communities to create and sustain conditions that support health and justice. 5 Within that framework, MLPs are an important and innovative option for holistic problem-solving. By addressing the root causes of health disparities and other fundamental systemic inequities, 6 MLPs advance health equity at the individual, systems, and population levels.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Leveraging Academic-Medical Legal Partnerships to Advance Health Justice

Girard,

Cannon,

Perry

et al. 2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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Unmet legal needs contribute to housing, income, and food insecurity, along with other conditions that harm health and drive health inequity. Addressing health injustice requires new tools for the next generations of lawyers, doctors, and other healthcare professionals. An interprofessional group of co-authors argue that law and medical schools and other university partners should develop and cultivate Academic Medical-Legal Partnerships (A-MLPs), which are uniquely positioned to leverage service, education, and research resources, to advance health justice.

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INTRODUCTION: What is Health Justice?

Cited by 9 publications

References 6 publications

Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

Hospital-Based Medical-Legal Partnerships for Complex Care Patients: Intersectionality and Ethics Considerations

Addressing anti-Black racism within public health in North America: a scoping review

Leveraging Academic-Medical Legal Partnerships to Advance Health Justice

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