New Article: Equitable Public Health
Posted by Stanford Social Innovation Review on August 25, 2020
In Precision Community Health, Bechara Choucair offers a four-pillared framework to address historic systemic inequities in public health but fails to confront the power arrangements that undergird them.
This year’s public health crises—the coronavirus pandemic and endemic police violence—have shone a harsh light on historical inequities in the United States, prompting calls for new ways to guarantee the health, safety, and well-being of all Americans.
Historically, attention to public health has waxed and waned as crises strike and then abate. The result has been a patchwork of inadequate public health infrastructure, the weaknesses of which are evident in the United States’ uneven response to COVID-19. Written just before the current crises, Bechara Choucair’s Precision Community Health: Four Innovations for Well-being offers one potential path forward for public health in an increasingly uncertain future.
Read more: https://ssir.org/books/reviews/entry/equitable_public_health#
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