4348.0 Inequality, Injustice and Health

Tuesday, October 30, 2012: 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Oral
All public health workers need to appreciate the social determinants of health and disease and their connection to our academic and political discourse.
Session Objectives: This session will discuss how and why poverty, incarceration, social class, racial discrimination, and income inequality combine to create ill health.
Organizers:
Johnathon Samuel Ross, MD MPH and Martha Livingston, PhD
Moderator:
Johnathon Ross, MD, MPH

2:30pm
Health, Poverty, Incarceration and Social justice in the United States: A critical review of evidence of close links with neoliberalism
Stephen Nkansah-Amankra, PhD, MPH, MA and Samuel Kwame Agbanu, PhD, MPhil
     
  
2:50pm
People in More Equal Countries Enjoy Better Health: What Should Clinicians Do?
Charles Wright, MD
3:10pm
Are health and social justice divorced in the United States?
Sonia Bettez, Ph D Candidate
     

See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.

Organized by: Socialist Caucus
Endorsed by: Labor Caucus, Women's Caucus, Asian Pacific Islander Caucus for Public Health, Chiropractic Health Care, APHA-Committee on Women's Rights

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