Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023
The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it
With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one’s skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system.
Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. She encourages health providers to take a leading role in the fight to dismantle the structural inequities their patients face.
A compelling and essential read, Just Health helps us to understand how racial inequality damages the health of our minority communities and explains what we can do to fight back.
"Matthew, dean and Harold H. Greene professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, begins her book on the health effects of structural racism on a personal note: her father died in his 40s and her mother in her 60s. 'The facts of my family’s story defy the myth that millions of other Black Americans share this all-too-familiar position because of a family breakdown or failure of personal responsibility,' she writes. A chapter dedicated to solutions 'outlines the most basic legal and policy reforms the nation needs if it is to dismantle the mechanisms supporting structural racism that prematurely ended my parents’ lives.'" - Publishers Weekly, "Healthcare Books 2022"
"Proves that systemic racism is embedded in the nation’s enduring societal institutions and relegates non-white Americans to ill-health and truncated life expectancies ... Matthew's exposé of health disparities will compel experts and general readers who are concerned about public health and the state of the nation generally to rally in a civil rights–era collaborative model of intervention at all levels to hold government accountable to dismantle discrimination." - Library Journal
"Matthew points to examples of successful population-level interventions in housing, food security, education, and neighborhood violence, illustrating the alliance between health care and legal professionals that could result in producing ‘just health.’" - Choice
"This book is a reminder that we can join with multidisciplinary partners to advocate for a future that values every human life. Physicians who want to change the system that causes the social determinants of health can turn to this book for help in directing their voices to act at a political and legal level to create a future of equal opportunity for health and respect for all." - Family Medicine
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The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change it
With the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one’s skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system.
Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. She encourages health providers to take a leading role in the fight to dismantle the structural inequities their patients face.
A compelling and essential read, Just Health helps us to understand how racial inequality damages the health of our minority communities and explains what we can do to fight back.
"Matthew, dean and Harold H. Greene professor of law at the George Washington University Law School, begins her book on the health effects of structural racism on a personal note: her father died in his 40s and her mother in her 60s. 'The facts of my family’s story defy the myth that millions of other Black Americans share this all-too-familiar position because of a family breakdown or failure of personal responsibility,' she writes. A chapter dedicated to solutions 'outlines the most basic legal and policy reforms the nation needs if it is to dismantle the mechanisms supporting structural racism that prematurely ended my parents’ lives.'" - Publishers Weekly, "Healthcare Books 2022"
"Proves that systemic racism is embedded in the nation’s enduring societal institutions and relegates non-white Americans to ill-health and truncated life expectancies ... Matthew's exposé of health disparities will compel experts and general readers who are concerned about public health and the state of the nation generally to rally in a civil rights–era collaborative model of intervention at all levels to hold government accountable to dismantle discrimination." - Library Journal
"Matthew points to examples of successful population-level interventions in housing, food security, education, and neighborhood violence, illustrating the alliance between health care and legal professionals that could result in producing ‘just health.’" - Choice
"This book is a reminder that we can join with multidisciplinary partners to advocate for a future that values every human life. Physicians who want to change the system that causes the social determinants of health can turn to this book for help in directing their voices to act at a political and legal level to create a future of equal opportunity for health and respect for all." - Family Medicine
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