We'll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity

چگونه ائتلافی از مدارس حرفه‌های بهداشت سیاه‌پوستان، برابری سلامت را به یک موضوع ملی تبدیل کردند.

نژادپرستی در سیستم مراقبت‌های بهداشتی ایالات متحده عمداً متخصصان مراقبت‌های بهداشتی سیاه پوست را تضعیف کرده و سلامت را تشدید می‌کند. نابرابری در میان سیاه پوستان آمریکایی برای قرن ها. این نابرابری‌های بهداشتی تنها به یک موضوع اصلی در دستور کار رهبران و سیاست‌گذاران سلامت ایالات متحده تبدیل شد، زیرا گروهی از مدارس حرفه‌های بهداشتی در کالج‌ها و دانشگاه‌های تاریخی سیاه‌پوست با هم متحد شدند تا برای برابری سلامت مبارزه کنند. ما در اینجا با آن مبارزه خواهیم کرد داستان چگونگی تاسیس انجمن مدارس حرفه های بهداشتی اقلیت (AMHPS) توسط این ائتلاف و تأثیری که به سختی در سیاست و مراقبت های بهداشتی آمریکا ایجاد کرد را بیان می کند. دیوید شانوف و لوئیس دبلیو سالیوان، وزیر سابق بهداشت

How a coalition of Black health professions schools made health equity a national issue.

Racism in the US health care system has been deliberately undermining Black health care professionals and exacerbating health disparities among Black Americans for centuries. These health disparities only became a mainstream issue on the agenda of US health leaders and policy makers because a group of health professions schools at Historically Black Colleges and Universities banded together to fight for health equity. We'll Fight It Out Here tells the story of how the Association of Minority Health Professions Schools (AMHPS) was founded by this coalition and the hard-won influence it built in American politics and health care. David Chanoff and Louis W. Sullivan, former secretary of health & human services, detail how the struggle for equity has been fought in the field of health care, where bias and disparities continue to be volatile national issues.

Chanoff and Sullivan outline the history of Black health care, from pre-Emancipation to today, centering on the work of AMHPS, which brought to light health care inequities in 1983 and precipitated virtually all minority health care legislation since then. Based on extensive research in the literature, as well as more than seventy interviews with the people central to this fight for legislative and policy change, We'll Fight It Out Here is the important story of a vital coalition movement, virtually unknown until now, that changed the national understanding of health inequities.

The work of this coalition of Black health schools continues, both in supporting the training of more doctors and health professionals from minority backgrounds and in advancing issues related to health equity. By highlighting these endeavors, We'll Fight It Out Here brings attention to a pivotal group in the history of the health equity movement and provides a road map of practical mechanisms that can be used to advance it.