Power Up: A Call for Public Health to Recognize, Analyze, and Shift the Balance in Power Relations to Advance Health and Racial Equity.

Authors :: Heller, Jonathan C.
Fleming, Paul J.
Petteway, Ryan J.
Givens, Marjory
Pollack Porter, Keshia M.
Source :: American Journal of Public Health. Oct2023, Vol. 113 Issue 10, p1079-1082. 4p.
Publication Year :: 2023
Abstract: The article urges that public health must increase its capacity to recognize, analyze and shift the balance in power relations to advance health and racial equity. Topics discussed include four domains to power according to black feminist sociologist Patricia Hill Collins, things needed to shift the balance in power relations, and structural interventions to improve health in communities.

Subjects :: *DIVERSITY & inclusion policies
*HEALTH services accessibility
*MATHEMATICAL models
*PUBLIC health
*MEDICAL care
*ADVANCE directives (Medical care)
*RACIAL inequality
*LABOR supply
*CONCEPTUAL structures
*INTERPERSONAL relations
*DECISION making
*THEORY
*POWER (Social sciences)

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