Description
Advancing Health for All: On the Front Lines of Equity and Justice captures stories of lived experience and additional research from 30 experts who presented at the Equity Summit, hosted by Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine and sponsored by RWJF. New Orleans and the Gulf Coast region--with its rich culture and resources, its aching poverty and enduring structural racism, and the intensifying immediacy of a changing climate--offers a window into the interwoven risks that lie before the entire nation. Yet its rich culture and resources also offer a measure of hope, exemplified by the vigorous, equity-oriented work unfolding along so many intersecting pathways.A starting point in any power-building effort is to define community, or more accurately to ask people how they define their own communities--geography, history, ethnicity, religion, and gender identity are potential commonalities that encourage people to stand together. In this volume, we consider many kinds of communities and the relationships within and across them that can seed transformation. Local leadership is key, allowing those most directly affected by inequity to determine their own action agenda, construct the research questions and data-gathering techniques needed to pursue it, and establish indicators and outcomes of success as they seek it. RWJF's commitment is to help communities build the capacity necessary to do that.This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Table of Contents
Introduction Part I: Rooting Health Equity in Place Chapter 1: New Orleans Jazz as Metaphor Chapter 1 Spotlight: An Evening of Authentic New Orleans Culture Chapter 2: The Built Environment and Health: Partnering in New Orleans Chapter 3: Gulf Coast Citizens Take on the Climate Crisis Chapter 3 Spotlight: The Goal is to Thrive Part II: Community Engagement, Belonging, and Power Chapter 4: Confronting Trauma to Change a Community's Health Trajectory Chapter 5: Harnessing Local Power Part III: Building the Health Equity Scaffold Chapter 6: The Complex Role of Race in Clinical Decisionmaking Chapter 7: Leveraging Medicaid to Promote Equity Chapter 7 Spotlight: Making the Numbers Work Chapter 8: Innovative Research Approaches to Further Health Equity Conclusion
