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

Published In

American Journal of Public Health

Document Type

Citation

Publication Date

8-3-2023

Abstract

Strategies such as diversifying the public health workforce; building capacity related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; and conducting research on oppression are necessary but insufficient to improving health in communities that have been marginalized by systems of oppression. Working toward health and racial equity requires changing the structural drivers of health. Public health interventions must advance widespread and lasting structural change—changes in values and beliefs; culture and norms; governance; laws, policies, regulations, and budgets; and institutional practices.

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© American Public Health Association 2023

DOI

doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2023.307380

Persistent Identifier

https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/40695

Publisher

American Public Health Association

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