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Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward . Rediscovering Public Health and Social Justice. New Mexico Public Health Association and UNM National Health Disparities 2014 Joint Conference April 2, 2014. Public Health and Social Justice History. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Rediscovering Public Health and
Social Justice
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
New Mexico Public Health Association and UNM National Health Disparities 2014 Joint ConferenceApril 2, 2014
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Edwin Chadwick
1842
Child Labor
Children’s Bureau 1912
Roosevelt's New Deal
Social Security Program
1935
TuskegeeSyphilis
Study1932 - 1972
Public Health and Social Justice HistoryMajor social reformer
Labor Movement
Labor Movement
Civil Rights Movement
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
(CDC) 1946
The World Heath
Organization (WHO)
1948
The PillTransforms
women’s lives1960
Growth of Environmentalism with Rachel
Carson’s “Silent Spring”1962
Public Health and Social Justice History
Women’s Movement
EnvironmentalMovement
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
War on Poverty
1964-1968
Civil Rights Movement 1960- today
Public Health and Social Justice History
Labor Movement, Civil Rights Movement
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Universal Declaration of Human RightsAdopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Public Health as Social Justice Dan Beauchamp
… makes a case for the importance of tying these two together, that the issues of poverty, racial discrimination, poor housing, unemployment or the abandonment of the aged requires sometimes painful costs that the dominant interests in society are unwilling to pay, and that our public ethics do not seem to fit our public problems.
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Justice means (in the broadest sense):
• Each person in society ought to receive his or her due and…
• The burdens and benefits of society should be fairly and equitably distributed.
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Beauchamp is speaking here of politics not as partisan politics, but as the more ancient meaning of political life as the search for the common good and the just society.
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Market JusticeVs.
Social Justice
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
• The dominant model of justice in the American experience has been market justice, the norms of which are that people are entitled only to those valued ends such as status, income, and happiness, which emphasize individual responsibility, and minimal collective action.
• The counter narrative of market justice is social justice
Market Justice Vs. Social Justice
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Doing Justice: Building an Ethical Paradigm for Public Health
“Doing public health should not be narrowly conceived as an instrument or technical activity. Public health should be a way of doing justice, a way of asserting the value and priority of all human life… the elaboration and adoption of a new ethical model or paradigm for protecting the public’s health. This new paradigm will necessitate a heightened consciousness of the manifold forces threatening human life, and will require thinking about and reacting to the problems of disability and premature death as primarily collective problems of the entire society…(Beauchamp, 1972)”
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Social Determinants of HealthWorld Health Organization (WHO) Definition (2008):
The social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work and age, including the health system. These circumstances are shaped by the distribution of money, power and resources at global, national and local levels, which are themselves influenced by policy choices.
The social determinants of health are mostly responsible for health inequities - the unfair and avoidable differences in health status seen within and between countries, and more locally, between communities.
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
What we Mean by Social Determinants of Health
Vicente Navarro critiques the long awaited WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health report (2008) • Class – the avoidance of this conversation in the report• The Commission’s “studious” avoidance of the category of power (class power as well as gender, race, and national power) and how power is produced and reproduced• Speaks of policies without touching on politics.• It is profoundly apolitical, and therein lies the weakness of the report.• So, we need to talk of politics (not only policies ) and Action !!
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
What we Mean by Social Determinants of Health
•As public health workers, we must take our work forward and denounce the process of killing… but also the FORCES that do the killing!
• We can recall Edwin Chadwick , one of the great founders of public health, who, as Commissioner of the Board of Health of Great Britain in 1848-1854, declared that the poorer classes of that country were subject to steady, increasing, and sure causes of death.
Celebrating our Work and Carrying it Forward
Public Health and Social Justice Working Group Participants:
Dana Schultz Millen, PhD, MPHRay Baca, BSWErica Newfield, RN, MSNAnne Marie Sekula, BA, RN Harold Vann, MAClara Yuvienco, MPH, CHES
Contact information: (505) 222- 8601 or [email protected]
Tobacco Use Prevention and Control(TUPAC) Program
•11 Program Staff Members•20+ Contracted Partners including
Six Priority Population Networks
CDC Goal Areas for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs
1. Cessation for Youth and Adults2. Prevention of Youth Initiation3. Secondhand Smoke Protection
4. Address Tobacco Related Disparities
CDC Goal #4:Address Tobacco Related DisparitiesImportance of Goal 4 elevated within NMEffort to Incorporate Goal 4 into all activitiesActivities include internal and external
program activitiesAnti-Oppression Model introduced in 2006
Definition of Anti-Oppression
Actions and attitudes which
challenge personal, cultural
and institutional oppression
Cultural Bridges to Justice
What does it mean to work from an anti-oppression framework?
Actively working to acknowledge and shift
power towards inclusiveness, accessibility, equity and social justice.
Ensuring that anti-oppression is embedded in everything that you do by examining attitudes and actions through the lens of access, equity and social justice.
Anti-Oppression TrainingOriginal Training hosted by TUPAC
contractorTraining attended by six program staffAction-planning component led to TUPAC
toward adoption of anti-oppression principles in all aspects of program activities
Training for all program staff began in 2007
Cultural Bridges to JusticeTraining ObjectivesFamiliarity with concepts and development of
a common language re. Systemic OppressionUnderstanding of historical, political and
social context for systemic oppression in U.S.Review systemic linkages among various
forms of oppressionDevelopment of an understanding of
oppression as a social determinant of health
Program Efforts to IncorporateAnti-Oppression ModelTraining began for all program staff in 2007,
Required for all contractors beginning in 2008
Additional staff who have since joined the program have been required to attend
TUPAC program has done organizational development work, including Mission Statement, Guiding Principles
Development of Priority Population Networks
Program Efforts to IncorporateAnti-Oppression Model (continued)• Requirement that all TUPAC-funded
Organizations attend anti-oppression training
• Incorporation of definitions, description of anti-oppression model into RFP’s
• Requirement that all contracts address disparities and incorporate anti-oppression principles
TUPAC-Funded Priority Population Communities
•Native American/American Indians•African Americans•Asian/Pacific Islanders•Spanish-Speaking Communities•People Living With A Disability•LGBTQ
TUPAC Mission StatementTo improve lives by eliminating the harm from tobacco abuse
through the implementation of effective strategies that
incorporate an anti-oppression model