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"Power and Health" examines the role of power in our society and how it can be reshaped to reshape our health.
"Power and Health" examines the role of power in our society and how it can be reshaped through community, belonging and inclusion in order to reshape our health.
Health inequities are systemic, avoidable and unjust health outcomes ultimately perpetuated by those who have power in society. Here, we explore four examples of health inequities and their relationship to power imbalances.
Meet the 10 experts examining health inequities through the lens of race, wealth and power in the documentary "Power & Health."
Perceptions of public safety impact the physical and mental well-being of residents. In communities like South Los Angeles, racial profiling by police and unequal law enforcement tactics have large impacts for public health.
In the U.S., where our health is impacted more by our surroundings than by our health care plans, our well-being comes down to how much (or little) power we have to make decisions impacting our daily lives.
Racism undergirds the inequities we see in nearly every major measure of health status we have. But there are immediate steps we can take toward transformative solidarity to begin changing our systems and institutions.
Farmworkers in 2020 have been deemed essential workers. Yet, the chronic, disabling, deadly and depressing circumstances they endure are not part of the imagery that goes along with the problematic trope of essential workers as superheroes.
While fighting their own respiratory health battles, environmental justice advocates are organizing communities to hold the mammoth oil and gas industry accountable for its impact on Southern California's most vulnerable populations.
Public health workers and grassroots organizers are intentionally building collective power across issues and communities for health equity.
In Santa Ana, a majority Mexican and renting population is heavily affected by pandemic. Advocates argue that the need to address the community’s lack of affordable housing and green space, crucial public health issues even before coronavirus, is now even more urgent.
Ruth Andrade was always told that confronting oil companies about the health problems she saw in her community (like nosebleeds, headaches, and even miscarriages and cancer) was too difficult to do by herself, so she decided to simply not go it alone. Years later, her work is finally paying off.
