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Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States : Theory and Practice / Edited by Lorraine T. Dean, Keilah A. Jacques.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health services accessibility--United States.
- Health services accessibility.
- Discrimination in medical care--United States.
- Discrimination in medical care.
- Social status--Health aspects--United States.
- Social status.
- Equality--Health aspects--United States.
- Equality.
- Public health--United States.
- Public health.
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Health Equity.
- Social Status.
- Public Health.
- Racism.
- Social Determinants of Health.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Services Accessibility.
- Health Equity.
- Social Status.
- Public Health.
- Racism.
- Social Determinants of Health.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 215pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st Edition
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
- System Details:
- datafile html
- datafile pdf
- text file PDF
- text file html
- Summary:
- How can we teach health professionals, who are among the most privileged in American society, to best serve those who are the least privileged in American society? Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States discusses the ways in which power and privilege along intersectional axes of race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, and other characteristics show up in public health and medicine practice, teaching, and research. It provides foundational knowledge on theories in power and privilege as well as examples of the ways in which the health and medical fields have been complicit in creating health inequities and maintaining oppressive structures that can be used to understand health distribution, differences, and disparities. To enact change, the contributors to this text enrich their chapters with practical guidance for developing anti-oppression competencies as well as experiential activities to examine how our own power and privilege influence the design, implementation, and interpretation of health studies and public health practice. In drawing attention to the actors and institutions that have led to inequitable health outcomes, Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States does more than simply highlight the problems that plague health in the US; it equips teachers and learners with the tools to enact change, straight from leading experts in academia and public health practice. -- Publisher
- Contents:
- Power, a foundational look
- Examining the coin of privilege in health and healthcare
- Health equity frameworks for structural and behavioral change
- Guiding principles for conducting research with a health equity lens
- Privilege and intersectionality frameworks in public health
- Race theories, anti-racism, and applications for health
- Why racial capitalism and scientific racism threaten promoting anti-racism and health equity in public health
- Orienting public health pedagogy : using anti-oppression tools for teaching privilege and health
- Developing a social justice informed curriculum for public health and medicine
- Historical and contemporary examples of power, privilege, and public health for classroom teaching
- Inclusive classroom and evaluation activities : deconstructing privilege while building coalitions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on January 23, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Also issued in print: Power, Privilege, and Public Health in the United States: Theory and Practice
- ISBN:
- 9780197760932
- 0197760937
- 9780197760925 (paperback)
- 0197760929 (paperback)
- OCLC:
- 1507701077
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