Well… this AMA pamphlet argues that the largest gains in health improvements historically have been when social movements fought and won certain things like Child Labor Laws, Housing and Factory codes and not neccesarily advances in technology.
That Addressing the root problems of social inequalities will bring about better health outcomes for all.
I personally think that they are tilting at windmills.
In other words an overcoming objections guide, meant to help sell the ■■■■ sandwich. The greatest philosophies for mutual respect and equality of rights don’t need overcoming objections guides. They stand like the immovable object against examination and critic.
Back then those changes were to advance a more civil society and a pro-growth movement towards a more perfect union. The current Marxist CRT ideology is designed for division, de-growth, & civil unrest! It’s literally dragging us back to era’s and issues that had/have been resolved over the history of the country because everything leftist marxists stand for these days is false!
I think that that may be going a little further than what they are actually saying.
They are arguing that shifting the narrative from the individual to the structural that greater health outcomes will be achieved because the root causes can be more understood.
No where is there anything about rebuilding a Capitalist economic system.
What structure do you think they are talking about to result in equality of distribution of health care? They mean something, don’t they?
Well, they do indicate that meritocracy and individualism are some of those “bad” things. Actually, if race is a social construct those are exactly what you should support. So they are after something else to destroy.
That’s your opinion, many people disagree with you. There are people who don’t understand why they can’t call me the n word. Or why they can’t use colored anymore… why they can’t call Asians yellow or Gay people “F words”
Many people thought the civil rights movement did the same. Luckily we have the element of time to make current conservatives forget.
They seem to think it doesn’t matter…”it didn’t come out of a box that says Critical Race Theory inside…it can’t be CRT …even when the content is all about the Caucasian kids being the oppressers and the kids of color the oppressed.
It is more along the lines of what is said in the section “The Purpose of Health equity based narrative”
“There are many dominant narratives that attribute health to personal choices (weight, drug/alcohol abuse, preventive health care) without taking into consideration equity
in the greater society. However, it is almost impossible to be or stay healthy in an unhealthy environment. Consider the health effects of living in chronically disinvested neighborhoods, with poor quality and unsafe housing, with limited options for exercise and healthy foods, expensive or unreliable public transportation, a dearth of pharmacies and an overabundance of fast-food outlets. The harmful effects of these characteristics are the basis of the social determinants of health model, as well as newer models that go even further “upstream” to the root causes of health inequities”
And then goes on to list the stuff that is always listed when talking about equity.
Now you are going to draw him into explaining that the only way to achieve that is through central planning and an impossible goal for equality of outcome, measured by group identity. But medical conditions are individual situations based on lifestyle and genetics. And since we are a very intermarried society, our genetics may not match our skin tone. As for social-economic disparities, individuals in different groups, experiencing the same conditions tend to have the same outcomes.
Like yesterday ProPublica put out a really good article that shows the most toxic places in the country where cancer is prevalent and of course these places are around where poorer people are.
Equity wouldn’t be to spread the pollution evenly but get the companies to cut back or eliminate the pollution.