228861 Injury and social justice

Monday, November 8, 2010 : 8:30 AM - 8:32 AM

Susan B. Sorenson, PhD , School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Michelle Sarche, PhD , Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, University of Colorado Denver, School of Public Health, Aurora, CO
Lawrence Wallack, DrPH , Portland State University, Portland, OR
Steven Whitman, PhD , Sinai Urban Health Institute, Sinai Health System, Chicago, IL
The theme of the 2010 APHA convention is "Social Justice: A Public Health Imperative." The mission of public health—improving the health of populations – focuses on creating conditions in which people can be healthy and is fundamentally about social change.

This ICEHS session will explore how injury prevention does, or does not, incorporate principles of social justice. The panel will open with an overview of public health's roots in social justice. The next three panelists will address injury patterns in specific demographic groups: poverty and health disparities for American Indians and Alaska Natives with a particular focus on injury, changes in Black-White health disparities in the past 15 years, and the gender paradox in injury in which, unlike ethnic group disparities, the structurally advantaged group, men, has higher injury rates. In sum, the panel will use a social justice frame to examine long-standing disparities in injury among specific demographic groups.

Learning Objectives:
Describe the social justice roots of public health. Identify long-standing injury disparities in specific demographic groups. Name ways in which social justice principles have been and could be applied to address the discrepancies.

Keywords: Social Justice, Injury

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the author of the paper and organizer of the special panel. Have 20+ years of research experience with the topic.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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