PUBHLTH 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Electronic Health Record, Health Insurance Portability And Accountability Act, Healthy People Program
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Chapter 31: public health in the 21st century. Dr. sami"s challenges to health in the 21st century. Extremes of religious, cultural, or national belief . Privileging capital/profit over the health of the planet, justice, and equity. Presidential initiative, a national campaign against racism. Aims to identify all areas in which racism exists and operates and to take swift and practical steps toward health equity through its elimination. Name racism as a force determining the social determinants of health. Ask how is racism operating here? identify how racism drives past and current policies, practices, norms and values that create the inequitable conditions in which we are born, grow, live, learn and age. Promote and facilitating conversation, research and intervention to address racism and its negative impact on the health of our nation. Race in research is not a neutral variable . Recognizing structural racism and not attacking individuals for being. Understanding the assumptions we make about our world.
