scholarly journals Equity Tourism: Ravaging the Justice Landscape

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elle Lett ◽  
Dalí Adekunle ◽  
Patrick McMurray ◽  
Emmanuella Ngozi Asabor ◽  
Whitney Irie ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
The United States ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Quality Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Antecedent Conditions ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research

As the long-standing and ubiquitous racial inequities of the United States reached national attention, the public health community has witnessed the rise of “health equity tourism”. This phenomenon is the process of previously unengaged investigators pivoting into health equity research without developing the necessary scientific expertise for high-quality work. In this essay, we define the phenomenon and provide an explanation of the antecedent conditions that facilitated its development. We also describe the consequences of health equity tourism—namely, recapitulating systems of inequity within the academy and the dilution of a landscape carefully curated by scholars who have demonstrated sustained commitments to equity research as a primary scientific discipline and praxis. Lastly, we provide a set of principles that can guide novice equity researchers to becoming community members rather than mere tourists of health equity.

scholarly journals Incorporating Health Equity and Community Perspectives During COVID-19: Commonalities with Cardiovascular Health Equity Research

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 421-424
Author(s):  
Erica Payton Foh ◽  
Sandra E. Echeverria
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Cardiovascular Health ◽  
The United States ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Social Inequities ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Health Agenda

 The COVID-19 pandemic is revealing the deeply entrenched structural inequities in health that exist in the United States. We draw parallels between the COVID-19 pan­demic and our cardiovascular health equity research focused on physical activity and diabetes to highlight three common needs: 1) access to timely and disaggregated data; 2) how to integrate community-engaged approaches in telehealth; and 3) policy ini­tiatives that explicitly integrate health equity and social justice principles and action. We suggest that a similar sense of urgency regarding COVID-19 should be applied to slow the burgeoning costs and suffer­ing associated with cardiovascular disease overall and in marginalized communities specifically. We remain hopeful that the current crisis can serve as a guide for align­ing our principles as a just and democratic society with a health agenda that explicitly recognizes that social inequities in health for some impacts all members of society. Ethn Dis. 2020;30(3):421-424; doi:10.18865/ed.30.3.421

scholarly journals Health Equity Research in Nursing and Midwifery: Time to Expand Our Work

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Deonni Stolldorf ◽  
Hayley D. Germack ◽  
Jordan Harrison ◽  
Kathryn Riman ◽  
Heather Brom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research

scholarly journals Grappling With Complex Food Systems to Reduce Obesity: A US Public Health Challenge

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 44S-53S ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Barnhill ◽  
Anne Palmer ◽  
Christine M. Weston ◽  
Kelly D. Brownell ◽  
Kate Clancy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Health Community ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
State Programs

Despite 2 decades of effort by the public health community to combat obesity, obesity rates in the United States continue to rise. This lack of progress raises fundamental questions about the adequacy of our current approaches. Although the causes of population-wide obesity are multifactorial, attention to food systems as potential drivers of obesity has been prominent. However, the relationships between broader food systems and obesity are not always well understood. Our efforts to address obesity can be advanced and improved by the use of systems approaches that consider outcomes of the interconnected global food system, including undernutrition, climate change, the environmental sustainability of agriculture, and other social and economic concerns. By implementing innovative local and state programs, taking new approaches to overcome political obstacles to effect policy, and reconceptualizing research needs, we can improve obesity prevention efforts that target the food systems, maximize positive outcomes, and minimize adverse consequences. We recommend strengthening innovative local policies and programs, particularly those that involve community members in identifying problems and potential solutions and that embrace a broad set of goals beyond making eating patterns healthier. We also recommend undertaking interdisciplinary research projects that go beyond testing targeted interventions in specific populations and aim to build an understanding of the broader social, political, and economic context.

scholarly journals “Ag-Gag” Laws: Evolution, Resurgence, and Public Health Implications

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 664-682 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caitlin A. Ceryes ◽  
Christopher D. Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Critical Evaluation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Animal Production ◽  
Public Access ◽  
State Laws ◽  
The Public ◽  
Food Animal ◽  
Health Community ◽  
History Of

The term “ag-gag” refers to state laws that intentionally limit public access to information about agricultural production practices, particularly livestock production. Originally created in the 1990s, these laws have recently experienced a resurgence in state legislatures. We discuss the recent history of ag-gag laws in the United States and question whether such ag-gag laws create a “chilling effect” on reporting and investigation of occupational health, community health, and food safety concerns related to industrial food animal production. We conclude with a discussion of the role of environmental and occupational health professionals to encourage critical evaluation of how ag-gag laws might influence the health, safety, and interests of day-to-day agricultural laborers and the public living proximal to industrial food animal production.

scholarly journals Xpey’ Relational Environments: an analytic framework for conceptualizing Indigenous health equity

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 395-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kent ◽  
Charlotte Loppie ◽  
Jeannine Carriere ◽  
Marjorie MacDonald ◽  
Bernie Pauly
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Indigenous Populations ◽  
Indigenous Research ◽  
Analytic Framework ◽  
Frontline Staff ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research

Introduction Both health equity research and Indigenous health research are driven by the goal of promoting equitable health outcomes among marginalized and underserved populations. However, the two fields often operate independently, without collaboration. As a result, Indigenous populations are underrepresented in health equity research relative to the disproportionate burden of health inequities they experience. In this methodological article, we present Xpey’ Relational Environments, an analytic framework that maps some of the barriers and facilitators to health equity for Indigenous peoples. Methods Health equity research needs to include a focus on Indigenous populations and Indigenized methodologies, a shift that could fill gaps in knowledge with the potential to contribute to ‘closing the gap’ in Indigenous health. With this in mind, the Equity Lens in Public Health (ELPH) research program adopted the Xpey’ Relational Environments framework to add a focus on Indigenous populations to our research on the prioritization and implementation of health equity. The analytic framework introduced an Indigenized health equity lens to our methodology, which facilitated the identification of social, structural and systemic determinants of Indigenous health. To test the framework, we conducted a pilot case study of one of British Columbia’s regional health authorities, which included a review of core policies and plans as well as interviews and focus groups with frontline staff, managers and senior executives. Conclusion ELPH’s application of Xpey’ Relational Environments serves as an example of the analytic framework’s utility for exploring and conceptualizing Indigenous health equity in BC’s public health system. Future applications of the framework should be embedded in Indigenous research methodologies.

scholarly journals Fostering health equity research: Development and implementation of the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Chicago

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Sage J. Kim ◽  
Jesus Ramirez-Valles ◽  
Karriem Watson ◽  
Paula Allen-Mears ◽  
Alicia Matthews ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Community Engagement ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Structural Violence ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Shared Vision ◽  
First Year ◽  
Community Partnership ◽  
Community Based Research ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research

AbstractIntroduction:The purpose of this article is to describe the process of developing and implementing a transdisciplinary community-based research center, the Center for Health Equity Research (CHER) Chicago, to offer a model for designing and implementing research centers that aim to address structural causes of health inequality.Methods:Scholars from diverse backgrounds and disciplines formed a multidisciplinary team for the Center and adopted the structural violence framework as the organizing conceptual model. All Center activities were based on community partnership. The Center activities were organized within three cores: administrative, investigator development, and community engagement and dissemination cores. The key activities during the first year were to develop a pilot grant program for early-stage investigators (ESIs) and to establish community partnership mechanisms.Results:CHER provided more than 60 consultations for ESIs, which resulted in 31 pilot applications over the three application cycles. Over 200 academic and community partners attended the community symposium and discussed community priority. Some challenges encountered were to improve communication among investigators, to clarify roles and responsibilities of the three cores, and to build consensus on the definition and operationalization of the concept of structural violence.Conclusion:There is an increasing need for local hubs to facilitate transdisciplinary collaboration and community engagement to effectively address health inequity. Building consensus around a shared vision among partners is a difficult and yet important step toward achieving equity.

scholarly journals “Centering the Margins”: Moving Equity to the Center of Men’s Health Research

2018 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 1317-1327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek M. Griffith
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
Men Of Color ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research ◽  
Health Progress ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Primary Focus

How might the science of men’s health progress if research on marginalized or subordinated men is moved from the margins of the literature to the center? This commentary seeks to answer this question, suggesting that if more attention is paid to men of color and other marginalized men, the field will be greatly enriched in its ability to understand determinants of men’s health. Reimagining men’s health by moving men’s health disparities to a primary focus of the field may yield critical new insights that would be essential to moving men’s health to the center of health equity research. Focusing on the dual goals of improving the health of marginalized men and examining the determinants of disparities among men and between men and women will yield insights into mechanisms, pathways, and strategies to improve men’s health and address health disparities. Current definitions of health disparities limit the nation’s ability to dedicate resources to populations that need attention—men of color and other marginalized men—that do not fit these definitions. Moving marginalized men to the center of research in men’s health will foster new ways of understanding determinants of men’s health that cannot be identified without focusing on populations of men whose health is as influenced by race, ethnicity, and other structures of marginalization as it is by gender and masculinities. Using Black men as a case example, the article illustrates how studying marginalized men can refine the study of men’s health and health equity.

Promoting Health Equity Research: Insights from a Canadian Initiative

2014 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 102-116
Author(s):  
Miriam J. Stewart ◽  
Kaysi Eastlick Kushner
Keyword(s):  
Health Equity ◽  
Equity Research ◽  
Health Equity Research
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