When it comes to health equity, professionals across the health sector are stopping and asking hard questions of ourselves. How are we as practitioners contributing to health inequities, despite our best intentions? How do our institutions unwittingly present barriers to equitable care? Health inequities don’t just happen, they’re not inevitable. They’re created and maintained, often […]
Health Communication
Episode #91 Putting an idea forward about the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity
January was a busy policy month–in the US government, and here on HealthCommunicationPartners.com. I wrote about policy twice in one month! In this episode, I summarize a bit of what’s been going on. Then, I take a close look at one part of the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through […]
One response to the Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity
It’s been an exciting time for health equity! As I reported earlier this month, US House Ways and Means Committee released a new document outlining policy pillars and priorities, A Bold Vision for a Legislative Pathway Toward Health and Economic Equity, and a new report, Something Must Change: Inequities in U.S. Policy and Society, with this fiery statement: “Health […]
Episode #90 Building momentum for health equity in health communication
This podcast series was the subject of a recent article in the Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. This is cool in its own right, especially because the article is about disrupting deficit perspectives. But what’s even better is the warm reception it’s gotten from people around the health sector. Find out what the […]
US House Ways & Means releases new Equity Framework
“Health does not exist in a vacuum, and achieving health equity will require addressing the economic and social inequities that have long persisted within our country.” This statement is from the Introduction to a new Ways and Means Committee Report, entitled Something Must Change: Inequities in U.S. Policy and Society. It was released this week, along with a document […]
Putting health equity front and center in 2021
The profound public health crises around COVID-19 have brought longstanding social injustices to the attention of more people than ever. There are signs of new political and institutional will to act now to dismantle institutionalized inequalities–action that has been demanded by several generations of researchers, scholars, activists and leaders around the globe. However you define […]