Full Description
How can health professionals use advocacy and activism to advance social justice?
Changing Care: Advancing Social Justice in the Health Professions is a collection of essays from healthcare practitioners presenting unique and diverse perspectives on the devastating effects of structural injustice from the front lines of the health care system. They witness the impact of poverty, racism, misogyny, and ableism on their patients' wellbeing, seeing firsthand how these and other forms of structural violence can obstruct access to vital resources necessary for health and survival. Despite this deeply felt urgency, educational and regulatory bodies have been painfully slow to respond to these systemic inequities.
Changing Care explores the crucial roles that health professions and practitioners can—and should—play in advancing social justice amid some of the most urgent public health issues of our time, including anti-Black racism, data governance, and the opioid crisis. Through a blend of research, case studies, and personal stories, the book offers practical strategies and solutions that can be applied both in an everyday practice and beyond traditional health care settings.
Changing Care carves a path forward for both health professionals and the organizations that educate, train, and regulate their services to embrace their responsibility in driving social and structural change.
Contents
Introduction
Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras
Chapter 1: Ethnographic Imprints: Engaging Field Notes as Embodied Practice for (Un)Just Awareness to Advance Humanistic Health Care
Jean E. Balestrery
Chapter 2: Critical Rooting: Reflections on Grounding Students' Positionality and Purpose for Health Justice through Collaborative Autoethnography
Sarah Dobrowolski
Chapter 3: Social Determinants of Health: A Global Curriculum for a Global Challenge Bridging Medical Gaps Collaboration
Rebecca Fujimura, Vinaya Gogineni, Rinki Goswami, Esha Grover, Andrea Kratzke Nelson, and Jessica Stauber
Chapter 4: Kinesiology: How the "Science that Moves Us" can Prepare Future Health Professionals and Educators to be Leaders in Health Equity and Social Justice
Christy Greenleaf and Caitlyn Hauff
Chapter 5: Documentation as a Tool for Oppressive Violence and Resistance: Reconsidering the Politics of Documentation Practices in Health Care
Marie-Lynn Grenier and Janna MacLachlan
Chapter 6: The Right to Oxygen: Creation of a Peer Support Responder Training Amidst the Dual Opioid-Poisoning and COVID-19 Crises
Christian Hui, Nick Rondinelli, and Samuel Lopez
Chapter 7: Reflections on Preparing Health Professionals for Social Justice Work
Jeff Karabanow, Kaitrin Doll, Cyndi Hall, and Meagen Bowers
Chapter 8: Advancing Social Justice teaching in the Health Professions through Interdisciplinary Approaches: Uncertainty Tolerance Teaching Practices and Cultural Literacy Pedagogy
Michelle D. Lazarus, Gabriel Garcia Ochoa, Mandy Truong, and Gabrielle Brand
Chapter 9: Strengthening the Connections between Health Literacy and Social Justice
Anne Marie Liebel
Chapter 10: Medical Students Answering the Call to Action: The Antiracism in Medicine Curriculum Series
Russyan Mark Mabeza, Betial Asmerom, Vanessa Nuñez, and Rupinder K. Legha
Chapter 11: Navigating Access to Health Care for Precarious Status Persons from the Health Workers' Perspective
Sarah Marshall
Chapter 12: A Revolutionary Anti-Black Racism Resistance Reflective Model in Nursing Education
Nadia Prendergast, Priscilla Boakye, Kateryna Metersky, and Annette Bailey
Chapter 13: Re-Educating the Educators: Decolonizing Faculty Development in Health Professional Education
Pamela Roach and Cheryl Barnabe
Chapter 14: Pathways to Better Supporting Indigenous-Led Data Governance and Ethical Decision Making in Primary Care Data Collection
Robyn Rowe
Afterword: Collectively Working Toward Change
Jennifer Brady and Jacqui Gingras
