John Jay College Healthcare Inequities and Disparities Essay

Discuss the issue of healthcare inequities and disparities and possible strategies for restorative justice

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: To understand the principles of community health, health inequities and community justice.

READINGS:

CBA, Chapter 1, “Securing the Right to Health Care and Well-Being” pp. 1-22

“Ten Things to Know about Health” https://unnaturalcauses.org/assets/uploads/file/10things.pdf

“Why Are You Not Dead Yet?” Access at:

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science_of_longevity/2013/09/life_expectancy_history_public_health_and_medical_advances_that_lead_to.html

Racial Disparities in Health Care

In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism | Commonwealth Fund

Robert Wood Johnson, May 2017,“What is Health Equity”

https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2017/05/w…

Readings: McKenzie, Kwame. 2008. “Urbanization, Social Capital and Mental Health.” Global Social Policy, vol. 8, no. 3 (December), pp. 359-377. http://gsp.sagepub.com/content/8/3/359.full.pdf+html. NO DIRECT LINK

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